The younger generation is regularly accused. Both addictions harmful to health and the state of mind of the “new” person are condemned. Bringing the whole generation to the same line and endowing them with the same qualities is not difficult. However, it will be more productive, along with a statement of symptoms, to determine the causes of their occurrence.
One of the common accusations towards youth is infantility. Having overcome the age of majority, the young man does not burn with the desire to shoulder the burden of any obligations. He does not seek to solve problems. He has his own method of struggle - to avoid everything that can cause harm, inconvenience, discomfort. For such types, there is even a special term - "Peter Pan syndrome, " that is, an adult child. And parents often unwittingly feed such an attitude to life in a child from a young age - after all, this is the only child, the blood-sucker, to cultivate whom so much effort has been put in. Everything that a person wants in this state - comfort, coziness, entertainment. From this follows the second problem of modern youth - the consumer attitude to life. Which is what those who earn at that time use. Young people inspire the image of the desired thing, pull the payback for it, then replace the bored toy with a new one. Such free control of the masses is possible with the preparedness of consumers. Their thinking is already adapted to this pattern of life. Young people who spend a lot of time on the Internet, evaluate the world differently from their parents. In conditions of an immense and growing flow of information, the ability to fully perceive it is lost. Therefore, a person grabs only scraps of skillfully filed information and momentarily uses it for his own purposes, and then forgets. The ability to simultaneously perform several tasks, scatter attention. But at the same time, the need to stop, think, and independently analyze information disappears. It is not surprising that as a result, the interest in learning disappears. If knowledge, like entertaining content, is not temptingly packaged, the consumer is unlikely to want to spend time (a lot of time!) To get it. In addition, the benefits of learning for young people are not obvious. After all, a diploma can be bought, and in many workplaces they do not look at the depth of knowledge at all. These motives are heard in the accusations towards young people: it has already become a tradition to mention that students and schoolchildren do not know their native language, do not remember history, do not value science. A change in value guidelines is generally characteristic of a generation. After all, his representatives were children in those years when the ideals of the Soviet era were destroyed and in their place they randomly and hastily tried to build a new system. As a result, the emerging personality has lost its stable benchmarks. The fruits of this situation are obvious today. In 2007, the Pitirim Sorokin Foundation conducted a study of the hierarchy of values of young residents of Russia. Most respondents put material welfare in the first place. Then, in descending order, individualism, career, family, stability, freedom, respect for elders, faith in God, patriotism, duty and honor settled down. High spiritual qualities, although they were at the end of the list, are still present in it. And this means that you can not recklessly scold the youth. The situation is not so clear. Among the masses who are accustomed to blaming for lack of education and infantility, upon closer examination, one can see smart, hardworking, talented people. And those who are deservedly scolded are only a reflection of the situation common to the entire population. The causes of the problems are systemic and depend not only on youth. In addition, the young man’s hometown, country, world is constantly evolving. And it would be strange if the new generation did not adapt to these changes, did not integrate into the environment in which it needs to live.
