Written
by : Lintang Puspitasari
Generation Demoralized
Young generation is all that is about in
the future. In other words, young generation actually has such a great deal to
bear for the future because what is in the future is in their hands. Today’s
generation is the world’s young generation that they should carry great
qualities not only for the benefit of them but also for the benefit of the future.
These great qualities are actually right there in every person’s being but it
is about carrying them until today and knowing on how to implement them that
really matters. Then, what are these great qualities that every being has been
carrying since the very early of their lives, especially those in the
generation of today knowing that the generation of today is not like any other
generations before?. Our young generation of today has both good qualities and
some deficiencies in them. This generation possesses a series of understandings
and emotions that the previous generations did not possess. In the previous
generations, the thoughts and minds of the people were not as opened as the
generation of today. These emotions and qualities were not present in the
people of the past. At the same time, they also have some corrupt thoughts and
negative ethical traits. Then again, every generation believes that the
generation before was too rigid and conservative and the generation after is
too wild and out of control. This has led to the belief that there is a moral
crisis happening to the youth of today. Nowadays, it seems to be a hard task
that the youth are facing especially with the more modern era, with all the
developing stuff from technology and media. Now, it seems to be demoralization
is in every aspect of life especially in the the young generation. That is, the
writer believes that there is a serious demoralization case bombarding the
youth of today that should be taken into consideration to be such a serious
case of attention only then it can be prevented or even better, be stopped
completely.
Fisrt, can be seen as what happened at
UMSU, it is reported that a university student, a girl, murdered her lecturer.
The huge question is what kind of desire that had driven that girl to have the
nerve to murder someone, let alone her own lecturer? There
is obviously something really wrong that
has to do with the girl’s morals and traits that have been directed to the
wrong path. If the case is analyzed closely, I think such incident happened
because the doer has beared corrupt thoughts and negative ethical traits for so
long that it got to the point where the doer could not take it anymore ending
up doing something that is believed, especially in the eyes of the old, to be
wild and out of control. Such incident just goes to show that there is indeed a
moral crisis happening to this generation of today.
Second, there is also a
hot-from-the-open-news that has been going around in society about sexial abuse
done by under age people that has caught a huge attention. The cases are about
a murder of a lecturer by the lecturer’s student at UMSU, a sexual abuse
towards a junior high school student by fourteen boys in Bengkulu, and a sexual
abuse towards a junior high school student by eight boys in Surabaya. These two
cases are not much of a difference with the previous case mentioned above. In
all actuality, I really think that such cases are just like a confirmation to
what has been tossing around in society that there really is indeed what is
called as generation demoralized, a confirmation that the generation of today
does bear corrupt thoughts and negative ethical traits with them, that the
generation of today is too wild and out of control, that the belief of the generation
before was too rigid and conservative might be close to a fact.
Morality is a set of values against what is
improper. These morals are essential and are a physical part of every child.
So, basically every child has morals in themselves but just as what has been
revealed above that it is about carrying those qualities and knowing how to
implement them that really matters. But then again, there is also one important
thing which is not more important above the others or the other way around, it
is about directing those qualities to the right path. Because if those
qualities are not directed then that would be of no use and just like that, if
those qualities are directed to the wrong direction then that would be disaster
that would lead to negative morality and ethical traits. Demoralization in the
youth nowadays seems to be really obvious that it causes such a shame to those
who know the news. It is not only a shame for the parents but also to all the
society too. Moral degradation that seems to be happening to the generation of
today is just like a wake up calling that the morals in the youth are not
directed properly nowadays. This is, of
course, saddening and perplexing to everyone especially with all the news that
have been making appearances on tv, newspaper, social media, etc. Looking at
what is currently going on in society, I strongly believe that there really is
a serious demoralization case bombarding the youth of today that it is a must
for us all to do something about it. Also, I do believe demoralization in the
youth must be turned around in the classroom, through parenting, and in our
community before this case of generation demoralized becomes a horrible
massacre.
References
Beadless,
Christian. 2015. Moral Degradation In Young Generation. (http://morals-
moral-degradation-in-young-generation.blogspot.com)accessed
on May 13,
2016
Kompas.com.
2016. Kekerasan Seksual Terhadap Anak di Indonesia. Accessed on May
13, 2016
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