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
In essences to developed a good moral value system we need to attain these seven 6. Translating the beliefs into action. Gradually over the decade's our morality as a society has been on a constant deterioration. Morality the meaning can be tricky. Morality means many things to many people. According to Diane E. Papalia and Sally Wendokos Olds, authors of A Child's World, there are seven steps in developing a good moral fiber. A brief summary of these steps are, 2. Considering the possible consequences. 1. Choosing a behavior from among various alternatives. Materialism, morality and a strong family structure are the key to developing future generations with the appropriate ethics. If we do not start now, in changing our priorities, we will have a world of selfish, unsecured people. Sit back and imagine what it would be like, for myself it is not a very pleasant picture. Were as the parents, teachers, celebrities have an responsibility to set forth the best examples that we can. Children will hear what you say however that is not enough to dissuade them from doing what you do. To change the materialistic habits you must first determine what's missing inside you that needs to be replace with materialistic items. Once you have found that missing piece everything else will fall into places. The more automated that we became the focuses of the family unit started to shift in the other directions. Parents and children were exposed to wondrous thing. The TV, VCR, video games all seem that they were to become an essential part of our lives. With mass marketing techniques the manufactures fill our head with thought of owning these items. Using unethical techniques in marketing to entices us into the stores and make us feel that we have to have the item at any cost. steps. The problem is that when there are not good models for young people to hold up as an example
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