Our Deteriorating Bad Manners and Negative Social Change ...dr. michael a. bengwayan

Our  Deteriorating Bad Manners and Negative Social Change

...dr. michael a. bengwayan

Grace teaches rural change and development communication in the graduate school, subjects i used to teach too along with social change and group behaviour and dynamics.

As I prepared my modules to lend her, I just can't ignore that as we are pushed towards technological progress, our social change patterns are deteriorating from bad to worse.

In short, we are having more bad manners than the opposite.

There is an appalling and gradual slide away from good manners that seems to be “the norm” around the world.

Family members no longer engage in the fine rudiments of conversation. Their eyes are glued to their cell phones.

 You see insolent youths, discourtesy at every corner and dishonesty  becoming a norm rather than the exception. Look at our clowns in the Congress investigation corruption as they stuff skeletons in their closets.

Hypocrites.

But as I have watched our world deteriorate into poor manners and inappropriate familiarity, I can certainly understand it now.

We have become ungodly. Advertisement. Information technology.

What I find most disturbing is that the future of our world is being left in the hands of a generation that doesn’t always comprehend even the simplest and most basic rules of etiquette and particularly in the workplace.

I have seen nine year old kids giggling over their cell phones only to find out they were watching porn.

The chief prosecutor in the province of Benguet says incest rape is the leading criminal case, where do we attribute that than to open immorality in our midst.

This is especially difficult for “millennials”. They have grown up in a world where screens replace people and where words and a growing list of acronyms replace human contact. Millennials are adept at using the latest social media platforms “...but social scientists are saying that the more we’re on our screens...our level of empathy decreases.

Not only do we lack empathy, we are also demonstrating a growing lack of situational awareness, not even noticing people in need. No matter how I look at this, I cannot find any possible understanding of how common decency in our society has deteriorated to such a shocking state as this.

It doesn’t help that we have had plenty of leaders who have done some appalling and/or supremely embarrassing things without giving any thought to the consequences.

And the daily circus our leaders bask in, is  not helping at all.