Journal: The new generation

The Internet is full of sites related to the interchanging of personal information, in the form of photographs, images and videos. "YouTube" is probaby the most visited of all those types of sites. What you can find there is generally home made videos, amateur photograph productions and all sort of personal information that people would like to publish. Eventhough there are rules to control what users publish, websites allow people to post almost all kind of things. And some of the publications are sometime very shocking. This is the case of the many videos already uplowded in the Internet where teenagers show themselves and their peers in brutal acts of violence, performed against their own classmates and public buildings. The most dramatic ones are the cases of bullying videos, which are shooted all over the wolrd, including Argentina. In those videos you can see how teachers are treated badly by the students, and how other students fall prey and become victims of the most traumatic and cruel types of physical and verbal agression form part of their own classmates.
Last year, en extremelly shocking video of this type saw the light in Italy. In it images of several types of brutality where shown. The images where registered with the video cam of a cell phone and they showed kids between the ages of 12 and 17 attacking teachers, their school building, kids who suffered from disabilities and physical incapaity, and even episodes of sexual aggression.
Those kinds of situations occur also in our country. Some weeks ago, 5 students from a public school recorded themselves while destroying their classroom almost completely. Instead of trying to hide the incident, the protagonist of the video published it on the Internet. The images produced the reaction of their other classmates who confessed that they rejected for not having took part of the shooting and that they feel envy for the 5 who did, because they became famous!.
This is the new generation. They are our future. And this is how our children and teenagers are born and bred. In the confusion between what is right and what is wrong. In a time where there's no family structure anymore due to various reasons, and which leads to the fact that children grow up almost alone. Heavily influenced by the mass media and the consuming society in which we live, our kinds do not have a clear guide to follow in the path of what is really healthy and good for them. Our society have lost it scale of values, or let say that it has changed it drmmatically, placing in first place, superficial interests, like the importance of appearence, succes obtained in a rapid and corrupted way and money. And in this way it permits aggressions of all types in every place. This destroyed the use of common sence, the importance of eductaion, the family and the taditional values, and as a result it destroys our future also, because this type of society is damaging very hard the minds of our new generation.