By Tunde Olowosejeje
It is no longer a news that some youths now abuse the social media to insult elders without any sense of doing something that is morally wrong. Generation Z has been blinded by their “wokeness” to the point that they now see the elders as their problem.
Therefore, instead of learning from the older generation and gaining wisdom, they are fighting them. A battle they cannot win and will definitely regret later if they do not change their ways.
This generation has thrown honour into the bottomless pit, it is in this generation that a child will come to the social media to drag his own parent in the mud all in the name of politics and his likes will join him in laughing his parent, it is in this generation that dependent teenagers will be at the frontline cursing elders that are their grandparent’s age-mates and everybody around them including the matured ones who are supposed to correct them will keep on applauding them.
How did we get here? Where did we get it wrong? No respect for culture, ethnic and religious bigotry, no regard for elders. To them, anyone that does not subscribe to their school of thought is a fool and an enemy.
I have not heard of any culture, religion or school of thought that do not teach respecting others opinions until now, I have not heard of a time when this kind of insolence thrived until now. What is wrong with this generation? They interpret things in the opposite direction. Every culture and religion called anger and ego weaknesses and warned against them, they interpret them as their strengths.
And it is a pity that this generation that claim to know it all is the less informed, they don’t want to read our history, they don’t want to engage the elders in educative discussions, they believe they know it all. And where do they get their informations from? The easiest place to lie. The social media.
Is it not time to desist from this habit that can dig early grave? Do not forget “Regard (treat with honor, due obedience, and courtesy) your father and mother (elders), that your days may be long in the land the Lord your God gives you.” Exodus 20:12 (paraphrased).
Tunde Olowosejeje is an Ekiti born author, freelancer and business coach, he can be reached via olowosejejetunde@gmail.com