teen culture

Teen culture has evolved massively over the past few decades. Teenagers no longer hang around rollerskating and eating popsicles like was the case in the 1970s. Today, teenagers spend their time listening to hip hop music and electronic dance music. Artists like Future, G-Eazy, Lil Uzi Vert, The Chainsmokers, Major Lazer, etc. are brand new teen role models in 2017. Gone are the days when teenagers picked up a book to read. Instead, nowadays we wile away time playing Call Of Duty, Battlefield, FIFA, Grand Theft Auto, amongst several others. Bethesda, Ubisoft, Activision, John Green and Veronica Roth have replaced John Grisham, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, and others famed and classical authors. Today, teenage girls love reading about sad love stories with no cultural value and boys don't really read anything. 

Socialising has become the most important thing in a youth's life and everything is a fight for popularity. Being unpopular or unknown is not accepted. Everybody is expected to have the latest gadgets and fashion senses. Everybody's private information is publicly revealed on social media sites. Our minds are relentlessly controlled by corporate media like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. We are enslaved by society and peer pressure is our largest enemy. While everybody's mind only revolves around socialising with friends and attending parties, other important aspects of teenage life are being suppressed such as finding out who you are, reading, studying, planning your life and exploring the world around you. Society today is slowly building a generation of average working people who may never get out of the rat race. On a macro level, productivity will be low and debts high. Leniency in grading test scores has increased over the years making undeserving kids achieve new heights.

Teenagers have a mind of their own. Nobody can stop them and those who try to are insulted and condemned. Internet culture has also imposed several problems on teenagers. Brain melting jokes and memes are replacing science and math is being considered a subordinate to YouTube.

Art as taken a massive blow because it has been replaced by R&B. 

When individuals like Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Kylie Jenner, and Drake lead the world today, we face a cultural decline.  People who spit on fans, promise to stand for presidential elections when they are 33 million dollars in debt and make make up which ruins the skin are bound to lead the world to hell for they are being rewarded for their fame. Anybody who speaks out for the ruin of culture today is jeered and shunned and told that 'everything will be fine'. But how will everything be fine when the future president of the free world might be an insolvent rapper and the most famous teen in the world is known for lip syncing all his concerts and being a jerk to all his fans and friends.

My only prayer is that we spend some time everyday to do things that actually matter instead of wasting time to get a relationship or a couple hundred Instagram followers. We are the next leaders of the world and we surely can't blame selfies for our ruin.