Technology is a great thing for civilizations. Breakthroughs in automation of mechanical construction put more than 60 million new cars on our roads every year and advancements in the aerospace industry, allow us to send a satellite from our blue marble to Pluto, a Planetoid 4.67 billion miles away from us at the edge of our solar system in 9 years. But it also has a negative impact on relationships as a whole. Advancements in telecommunications technology make it easy to connect to people through the means of Social Media, but this is superficial. Actually connecting with people on a deeper level has become obsolete; are your friends really friends, or people whose name you’ve read on an online web page?
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But what is a friend? History’s romantics had the idea that friendship was a passionate thing akin to finding your true love, among other ideas, and for some, as in the example of David and Jonathan, a biblical account of the friendship between David and Jonathan, recorded in the books of Samuel, David’s love of Jonathan “was more wondrous to [him] than the love of women.” A friendship so great is also akin to family, as seen with Alfred, Lord Tennyson, lamenting over the passing of Arthur Hallam; “My friend… My Arthur… Dear as the mother to her …show more content…
In a culture where music shows a recurring theme of drug use and abuse, sex, and alcohol, it’s not surprising to see a large amount of teens using drugs; a search query of “drugs and students” on LexisNexis returns multiple results of school legislatures resorting to drug testing in middle schools and high schools across the nation. A 2002 Irish News Article, written by William Scholes reveals that at the time of writing, over half of all Irish Students use illegal drugs, while 11% of drug users take drugs daily. Two-thirds of these students used drugs in secondary school, according to a survey taken by the Union of Students in Ireland. An article written as recent as 2014, distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News, shows that Mingo County schools in West Virginia randomly drug test their students. These are middle schoolers being randomly drug tested; the average 6th grader is just 11 years old.
How could society have fallen so much? When Religion, a once sensitive, sacred and personal subject becomes a topic of pop culture through nefarious public relations practices, a problem is apparent. This is the downward spiral of civilization, with the media force feeding the minds of the immature adult imagery, desensitizing them at a young enough age, removing them of their childhood
Pop culture’s influence on our daily …show more content…
But what is a friend? History’s romantics had the idea that friendship was a passionate thing akin to finding your true love, among other ideas, and for some, as in the example of David and Jonathan, a biblical account of the friendship between David and Jonathan, recorded in the books of Samuel, David’s love of Jonathan “was more wondrous to [him] than the love of women.” A friendship so great is also akin to family, as seen with Alfred, Lord Tennyson, lamenting over the passing of Arthur Hallam; “My friend… My Arthur… Dear as the mother to her …show more content…
In a culture where music shows a recurring theme of drug use and abuse, sex, and alcohol, it’s not surprising to see a large amount of teens using drugs; a search query of “drugs and students” on LexisNexis returns multiple results of school legislatures resorting to drug testing in middle schools and high schools across the nation. A 2002 Irish News Article, written by William Scholes reveals that at the time of writing, over half of all Irish Students use illegal drugs, while 11% of drug users take drugs daily. Two-thirds of these students used drugs in secondary school, according to a survey taken by the Union of Students in Ireland. An article written as recent as 2014, distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News, shows that Mingo County schools in West Virginia randomly drug test their students. These are middle schoolers being randomly drug tested; the average 6th grader is just 11 years old.
How could society have fallen so much? When Religion, a once sensitive, sacred and personal subject becomes a topic of pop culture through nefarious public relations practices, a problem is apparent. This is the downward spiral of civilization, with the media force feeding the minds of the immature adult imagery, desensitizing them at a young enough age, removing them of their childhood