Bad society

The Nigerian society today has gone beyond normal and commonsense. Maybe because we now live in the so called global home, daily stung by the effects of sociology-globalization where many, most especially the youths, are either face-booking,whatsapping, tweeting or using all brands of tablet, androids and i-phones, that is why perhaps, in the last couple of years, an ever increasing moral and social decadence seem to apparently hit us on the face. From East to West with both South and North not left out, the societal morass paints a sorry situation of how our customs, traditions and culture are fast eroding and overtaken by Western civilization.

What stirs us in the face today is a far cry to what it was in the past. We care less about the kind of dress we put on whether it debases the very core of human nature or not. We have turned to dogs whose sexual urge is displayed anywhere and everywhere. Ironically, even dogs these days are far better than many humans today, what with the sexual romp they display in public places. Hotels spring up every now and then with youths patronizing them as if salvation exist there. On the streets, hooligans, area boys, vagabonds and nonetities litter everywhere, disturbing the peace of the land.Cigarettes have almost become obsolate as marijuana  and all brands of hard drugs are injested daily and have taken centre stage. Alcohol with the highest percentage value are consumed with reckless abandon by the youth while those who do not take them are usually seen by their peers as novice. Ex-rated films, immoral movies, shows and programmes are displayed on our screens without regulatory agencies willing to censor them, despite their sad effect on our kids.

Radios blast profane music and many celebrate artists who proliferates such profane music. In fact, without these brand of music, many artists are less recognized.

 

Worse of all are contemporary parents who ordinarily are supposed to be the first pointer towards a better society, busy themselves pursuing needless things at the detriment of their wards. Simply because a parent wants to survive and must bring food on the table, they put their children on the path of danger. When a kid has no parental care, he tends to become a social deviant and commits acts inimical to the society at large. The government too with its want on act of kleptocracy, to-hell-with-the-people and I-don't-give-a-damn attitude, many Nigerians have suddenly appeared to be their own local government, forgetting their duties to the home and society, caring guns of all types and government seems to do nothing.

The Western culture we all struggle to imbibe has gotten us nowhere, but rather, continues to destroy the social fabric of our society. The Nigerian youths rather than being productive are either on facebook, tweeting their lives away or even watching football or seasonal films which earns them nothing but stagnation. There is no harm in having fun, but when we do it with so much addiction, forgetting we have a role to play for ourselves and the society as a whole, it then becomes a huge problem.

For the fact that no society develops with it youths playing their lives away, it is high time for those responsible for the proper upbringing of our children and our society started thinking straight and ahead. Our society must be refrain from immorality and also wanton intake of foreign substance. The future social fabric of the Nigerian society is fast eroding and if something is not done to nip this ill on the head, we all will have ourselves to blame. It should not be the wish of any nation to have more than half of its population suffering from paroxysm of immorality. It should not begin with us.

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