YOU CAN’T RANK XEROX LIFE! PART TWO

The Irreplaceability, Unduplicatability, Unphotocopyability and Unclonenability Nature of Life

The global experience of youth violence in our today’s world attests to the fact of global morality collapse due firstly, to mankind’s abandonment of God, eventuating in moral aridity/desertification and spiritual drought in human community – and not forgetting, the current strange global family arrangements with all of their unnaturalness!

Yet, it sometimes gives one the impression that young persons of today are living in a fictional or make belief world, having taken a good doze of film-watching “pills”, in addition to spending all their lives in the virtual world 24/7.

(SOME) FACTORS FUELLING GLOBAL YOUTH VIOLENCE IN THE MODERN WORLD

Apart from having easy access to guns, knives, machetes and other weapons of violence, other causes of global youth violence in our today’s world include:

1.   Absence of God in the upbringing of the modern children, resulting in three causative factors – spiritual, spiritual and spiritual aridity/desertification (Proverbs 22:6).

2.   Unnatural and unbiblical family arrangements of the modern world

3.   Bad company

4.   Broken homes

5.   Drugs

6.   Anger of young persons at society

7.   Pressures of life

8.   Rapidity of our changing world

9.   Uncertainties of life

10.                Inability to process the avalanche of information available to young persons in the Virtual Age.

11.                Over expectation

12.                Under expectation

13.                Exclusivity

14.                General Inequality – fuelling urban and rural poverty

15.                Youth unemployment

16.                Some youth are just walking volcanoes

17.                Puzzles of life

18.                Unanswered questions (about life).

19.                Restiveness

20.                Inability to understand, decode and interpret life

21.                Absence of father figures

22.                Growing up without the Ten Commandments

23.                Absence of mentors and positive role models

24.                Low self-worth/esteem

25.                Uncontrollable bad temper

26.                Absence of standards

27.                Absence of national moral code for young persons

28.                Zero upbringing

29.                Zero morality

30.                Young people growing up without responsibility

31.                Young people growing up without self-respect.

 

*To be continued.

 

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