VALUES BEING LOST.
In the begining of christianity
our traditional
values started, in the begining with the church fathers time, in
feudalism, and the middle ages values grew, they were kept and lived, and gave a
substratum to the occidental, western European civilization and the rest of the
world, other new religions took them as precious parts of their beleives, before, civilization did
not have difficulty in stablishing them, at the reinessance they started to be
lost, and with the french revolution, many were simply forgotten. Step by step
the influence of the catholic church, that has been the origin and defender of
them has been loosing its influence.
Persons in the old times did not
have the distractors of modern times, from the end of the XVIII century reading
became popular, books reached the middle and lower clases, the comunication
technology has supplemented reading and instead, the popular electronics of
tv., inteligent tablets and lap tops, móvil phones that are practicaly
computers, that are full of information, memories, photographs, games, news practicaly at the
time they are happening, have taken the much of the place of books, now
academic and technology texts are in its place, all around the globe. Persons used to read
books much more than today.
Some values are in use in
bussines as indispensable issues, and others are thaugth, specially with
offspring at home, but not enough. It is very little family comunication, here
the technology is widely used by youths in poor conversations with their
friends. Some parents use modern technology very conveniently when the offspring are away
from home, and they use it with great advantages for their studies,
investigation, general information, But not all is good, there is a perverse
side of it, dangerous to the kids and persons of all ages, from young to
oldies. Some examples of this are, improper films, pornography, wich can
reach despicable addictions, fake news
and wrong information, it is also a political instrument, widely used, in many oportunities
to deceive audience. This shows us the need of applying new manners of teaching
values, in accord with times.
Regarding computer technology, in
our horizon we have to learn how to win the needed battles, trying to erase the
dark side and enhence the good part of technology, being consent, of the
advantages that a good use grants, and the evil it can generate if used
wrongfully, this can be succesful if values are well teached in order to be
well understood.
Of course this is a
responsability in the first place of the parents, but also goverments must play
its roll, in centers of education and also in general information to the public
in the mass advertisement. If this points are not well taken care off, the
society will suffer pains, and the ideologies will spread its bad influence.
Human persons are generaly open
to assimilation of the good education, but if it is not realy active then come
the bad ways of thinking and acting. The catholic church is alwais very aware
of the problem of the value lost, and acting, but needs our support and help,
this is not a simple task, we all must take part of it in a very responsable
way.
Jorge Casas y Sánchez.
