An intriguing phenomenon bedeviling the youth of nowadays is their obsession with the unrealistic notion of attaining wealth and riches in a relatively short period of time and then indulging in flamboyant, ostentatious lifestyle of improvidence, wastefulness, debauchery, revelry and orgiastic delusion. It is now a cliché and a complete failure to hit the target to view the youth in the light of bursting with unusual boisterousness and exuberance in relation to daring sacrifice to attain high quality education to be responsible and productive adults who the fate of the nation ultimately depends. The youth of today are no future leaders. They epitomize and encapsulate the future catastrophe that await us. They are not interested in any idealistic package the exemplary adults and high profile achievers have for them and they are oblivious to the fact that as young adults the fate of the nation depends on them and that they have a duty and a crucial role to play in the development of the nation. What they know and channel their efforts to is the pursuance of materialism. The world is an insipid cul de sac of ravenous and gluttonous adults devoid of pity and the progress of the youth so the new God they have churned to sail them through this wretched and meaningless existence of poverty and squalor, of filth and moral decadence and absolute lawlessness and parochial mendacity is money. They have concocted fanciful and unrealistic notions of life and money that they now compete with the elderly to attain the same financial status and privileges and even to overshadow them.
The revolutionary onset of the internet and information technology has made globalization and information dissemination not only possible but fast and reliable and also has improved the educational process tremendously and changed our perception of the world.
Whiles countless youths of the world surf the internet for information and pursue various courses on line to attain higher levels in education, the youths of this land view the internet and the computer as a whole as an opportune means of transforming themselves into multibillionaires by duping and defrauding unsuspecting victims by their capricious whims, trickery and charlatanism and double dealing (419 Scam) They have turned the computer, a magnificent multipurpose assert of modernity, into a clever crook who’s crime can be hectic and extremely difficult to be traced. The computers’ numerous uses has being grossly underutilized, its basic function unexplored and the little that is tapped from its resources channeled to accomplish evil.
I was in a cyber café recently downloading books from the internet when a young man sitting next to my desk saw a title of a book on the screen. He was surprised to see me reading the contents of a book running into thousands of pages on screen. How possible, he asked. I told him that it is possible to get any book in the world on the computer. I explained to him that the current website I have logged on to has even offered to give me free of charge a compact disc containing one trillion books. Which is more than all the books our libraries contain nationwide? The youth was enamored and enchanted by the surpassing brilliance of the computer. The computer is a genius. A companion for life. An educational instrument of unchallengeable propensity. An intelligent paraphernalia of modern times. Yet, like the human mind, weak and susceptible and palpable, easily influenced and perverted, it can be corrupted and channeled to accomplish evil purposes of unsavory nature and far reaching repercussions.
The young man apparently charmed by the strange nature of the computer and how it can virtually do anything in the world confessed to me that he actually has being manipulating the intelligent robot for personal gratification at the expense of persons who thoroughly believe in the supreme reliability of the computer to make them communicate with the world. He said for some time now he has created a non existent phony character on the net and the world sees him as a glamorous lady and the sex perverts and urbanized avaricious cavemen with gluttonous spite are fooled and eventually duped.
I nodded in solemn recapitulation and shame and bemoaned silently the nature of current events and how the youth of today have entangled themselves in a web of devious machinations and pretentiousness in their bid to get money without working for it.
Some are able to maneuver their way through. They do not chat online as women for nothing. Those who are not successful initially have to resort to extremely unconventional means which is absolutely unimaginable and unfathomable. It is an open secret that these boys who have sworn heaven and earth to eradicate poverty in their midst would consult spiritual mediums to assist them to defraud and steal huge sums of money from their "clients" some are said to immerse themselves into coffins for days and some simply lodge at cemeteries for the final rituals that will turn them into billionaires overnight.
So in their quest for non existent money, not only has the youth resorted to various degrees of internet scam and fraud and double dealing, or conducting numerous penances of masochism and rituals at the behest of an equally dubious trickster who calls himself a spiritualist or adept who is able to communicate with spirits in his filthy garments redolent of the filth and squalor surrounding him; and plays on the psychological imbalance of the youth but also robbing and stealing at broad day light with impunity. They arm themselves with various instruments of death and stalk in the dark like vultures waiting for carcasses.. Innocent men and women are either threatened to surrender their belongings or face the raw brunt of their criminal ire. Violence and disregard for human life is the norm. The youth have carved a bleak future for themselves as they trample the healthful laws governing the society and have made themselves lawless urchins unleashing terror and brutality on innocent people.
What a labyrinthine chaos we have created. Everything is falling apart. The society which is looked upon as creating structures to curb some of these negative and undesirable albatross from hanging around our necks is fast loosing its grips. Our society is rapidly disintegrating.
It is now a taboo to talk about the virtues of education and the need for the youth to seek for knowledge. They are obsessed with western culture and to them any thing western is a higher form of civilization, synonymous to modernity. There is nothing like morality or ethics. Culture is extinct. They have replaced it with lawlessness. They imitate the fashion and the ridiculous lifestyles of the Black musicians of America. They write extremely nonsensical lyrics of abuse and riddled with obscene eroticism and feast their lustful eyes with pornography. They read magazines filled with nude pictures of women which debases the role of women. More and more youth are becoming gay and taking all kinds of drugs. The young ladies now engage openly in lesbianism and they discuss it without shame or regret. They walk on the streets virtually naked. The bulk also engages in prostitution and induced abortion and it is an eternal cycle of filth, moral decadence and corruption.
In all these, some have the gut to defend themselves as being driven to indulge in such socially unacceptable vices by poverty. Yet when they defraud and prostitute themselves and lay their hands on the money, they spend it recklessly and ravenously. They shower it on prostitutes and expensive drinks. They worship the alcoholic bottles with irreligious laxity and with unheeded glee fueled by folly they storm the streets in drunken spree. They buy expensive flashy cars and gallivant about town spending lavishly on useless items and displaying their cant to the public portraying their new found status in the society. Instead of concentrating on their books and how they can also utilize some of the things their predecessors have built, they occupy their idle brains with fantasies of fantabulous wealth, women and drugs and Chrysler and infinity and dark thoughts of getting money in seconds.
Because the youth have neglected education, they have sunk into superstition and dire ignorance and their immature brains are as malleable as clay. They are easily manipulated by any vicious idea springing in the dark thoughts of criminals and opportunists. They have become instruments for bestial purposes.
So in increasingly atheistic and demoniac terms, the youth have neglected education and culture and have fashioned a new God which is money that they constantly search after and it is always a sad story of the excesses of modern civilization.
In all these, the pertinent question is who are the brains behind the appalling degeneration of the youth and their unquenchable thirst for quick money. It is an understatement to mention the real culprits as the elders. In their bid to secure a formidable financial statues, the elders by resorting to vile and pernicious wishful thinking tactics have created monstrous and antihuman policies which have taken reign of the imaginations of the youth and a vicious cycle of barbarism and anti cultural and anti social acts have being unleashed and nothing can stop its dreadful consequences.
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