Postmodernity manipulate young people

POSTMODERNITY MANIPULATE YOUNG PEOPLE

By: Lilian Iveth Herazo Crawford

All changes in the epochs of the history of humanity have had repercussions in cultures and individual conceptions of the live in the world. But this new epoch called post modernity has being recognized because of its influence in youth that are one of the most important actors of the new information society. That’s why post modernity manipulates young people.

In post modernity there has been many rapid changes that do not give people time to assimilate and analyze new knowledge; to take decisions about how to use that new information. That is a reason why young people only follow new trends without a real conviction to go behind them.

There was a situation in Spain about a boy who attacked to a foreigner in a bus. News said that he was in a difficult economical situation and he had a job interview but he was not given the job, because it was given to a foreigner like the one in the bus.

Those events happen in the context of post modernity when the world is invaded with more and more publicity and advertising that have introduced conceptions like “only now is important”. Advertisers use feelings of people and new movements like fashion; genres of music like pop, punk, reggeton; urban cultures like punks, emos, nazis, rappers, gangsters for implying the young to those conceptions.

A philosopher said that those who do not know their past could make the same mistakes in present. That is why the conception of now, the past and the future is important for humanity’s development. But sometimes that development is not assimilated and the use of the knowledge that it produces, is dangerous for humanity.

Humanity has been aware of their freedom since ancient Greece. That consciousness has made them develop politically, economically and socially every time faster and faster. Now we can see the conception of that freedom in the globalization and technological advances, those are the higher levels of humanity evolution, but those have caused as many changes as problems in the same society that create them.

Good changes in the world movement and in all its aspects like Human Rights, minorities’ fights and rights, different types of government, plurality and the acceptance of the humanity of everybody. But the negative influence have more local consequences in the young because they live in a information society that manipulates as many information as we cannot imagine and there have no filters, so if they cannot select the most important and clear information, things like lose of cultural traditions; the individualism higher and higher; lose of values like love, solidarism, tolerance, respect etc could occur. That could happen because the higher technological evolution the more young people feel lonely, due to lack of guidance.

Those new concepts were created in post modernity and they are part of it, but all of them are more complicated than they look. Without a clear knowledge about all new information, culture could have many problems and maybe collapse and disappear. This is a very extreme consequence, although we are about to reach it. Young people must know how to select information, use it, reflect about it, because they are the most vulnerable population and in their hands lays the future of humanity.