Wants and Needs
Everyday we are bombarded with images of what our society views as the necessaries of life. We are barrage with advertisements of fancy cars, expensive houses, and exotic vacations these images teach our children a distorted priority system. The consequences of these priorities are played out in living color on the nightly news. I believe that materialism is the cause of the break down of the family and the caused of moral decay within our society. Each society establishes it's own set values based on what its perception is of right and wrong. In past generations the line of right and wrong were very clear. Unfortunately with each new generation that line of right and wrong has blurred to where it almost unrecognizable. According to a story in International Herald Tribune, the University of California has found that “74.9% of 1997 fall first-year students are motivated by monetary gain while only 40.8% of students wanted to develop a personal philosophy.” Where as two decades age 82.5% in 1968 who chose creating a personal philosophy over material gain (Lee 1). The priorities of self development has been replace with selfless materialistic wants. Over the past three decades, we have seen a tren . . .
This behavior is indulgences of parents. Were as the parents, teachers, celebrities have an responsibility to set forth the best examples that we can. Show like Friday the 13th or Texas chain saw massacre, are vided examples of how the value system in this country has been deteriorated. The present of adult around most of time made it easier for the children to determine right and wrong. Compared with the programming that our children and we view today. Parents of today are unable or simple unwilling to take the time to instill a proper set of ethics. It is a part of everything, from our personal live to public affairs and global concerns”(Terkel 7). Being willing to make the choice public to let everyone know about it. To have a moral society we need to incorporate the essences of right and wrong in all are of our lives. Maybe we are being to see what is rally important in life. This is in direct contrast to the family structure of today.
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