
Gabriel Sanchez
Danger for the future of the world
There are people killing themselves around the world. Hate and intolerance are on the schedule from now on. The main reason is the environment where kids, who determinate the future of the culture, are growing and watching is full of violence and chaos, which have a lot of influence in them. Not just the younger ones, also the grownups have the same problem with the sensationalist press and news with the same nature. The media has a massive damage power over all kinds of minds, but the immature ones are the more sensitive to media dangers.
In the case of children, it must be know their childhood has been killed by unsupervised television and the internet. They don’t have an appropriate development; if we compare the older generations’ development we will find a very marked difference: our parents didn’t have a TV or their TV was only for give informative shows. The children just sit in front of the TV and absorb all the information they can, good or bad doesn’t matter only the fact the program is exiting to watch, things like fights, explosions, shooting and more, which means the bad shows, because now the TV shows are focused on education are considered as not cool.
Also the parents of these children are people totally dedicated to work and don’t pay attention to their families. They just think about their careers and the families stay in second place. But is unfair blame only the parents, because the main guilty of this problem are the owners of the TV stations whose just don’t care about the minds of kids and the coming generations. Money and the audience are the objective for them. They play all kinds of shows and series, most of it with violent or sexual content. Children don’t have the right orientation about these contents, so they can't make a correct interpretation of the messages, and will take it like reality, things in the case of cartoons, which with their funny way to show the things, they make the violence less perceptible, but the bad message is still there.

Other problems with these programs are actions heroes. In cartoons and regular movies and series, our TV superheroes, it is hard to say, are promoters of violence and antisocial behavior. They solve their problems with the others and the world using their hands, punching, kicking, shooting, and even killing. So the innocent kids want to do the same things and this is wrong.
The dialogs have been lost from the kids’ minds, always the first option is fight and the second one is fight, too. The resource for solving a problem without conflict is considered a girl’s thing. Only the weak ones don’t fight, so it became a social problem, too. Studies have demonstrated that children who watch violence on TV became potentially violent adults, so the thing isn’t a phase which will pass when they get older. This is forever. The other side of the same problem is that in some kids, violence on TV doesn’t inspire bad behavior, but the opposite: a fear of the outside world making them depressed and too sensitive, damaging a very important phase in their process of maturing.
Defenders of the media may be having a point when they say, “it’s better for the kids stay home watching TV than be outside in a gang”, but we have to analyze, why do they form a gang? The same studies reveal that a group of violent children may want to be with people with the same philosophy and of course because they’re watching it on TV. So when we leave them in front of the television, they’re learning how to form a gang.
Now we can have an idea of how the future is going to be if we let the problem of media violence continue in our homes, the named so many times future of the world will have desire of destruction, so it wouldn’t be very pretty. The only recommendation that can be posted is this: take care of your kids are watching, if there are watching something not good for them, just explain them that isn’t real and is dangerous if they do it. Because the media world would not disappear for keep children’s minds clean of bad things.
Works cited
“Research on the Effects of Media Violence.”




