LOOSING OUR TRADITIONAL VALUES

 

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.