What drives teenagers to act like a herd and have fun hitting? The news very often records similar incidents in many cities of the world, which are not always or directly connected with the funs of football teams and the groups. Herd behavior and beastly, unemotional behavior towards others is beginning to become a feature of a significant portion of children and adolescents.
Behind the news, in the invisible part of the events, figures of children emerge who are either out every night, until midnight, while they have school in the morning, or are involved in professional or “professional” activities that have nothing to do with their age. or participate in tough groups of thugs and thugs.
Most of those arrested are usually in their late twenties. This means that they acquired the herd behavior and the ability to engage in violent episodes when they were minors. Each route has its starting point and its evolutionary course. No one becomes a thumbs up or a knife-wielding overnight. The “cruisers” require training. Simply, when one becomes an adult and acquires a day job and a car, one acquires greater autonomy of movements. Ekosaris with a private car and his main activity is the stadium and the beating of the so-called opponents. With an ideological symbol that legitimizes all this, a sports and entertainment company operating for profit. That is, with an empty head.
Why are more and more children growing physically while the head remains empty? What makes the new awkward, anti-social and ultimately candidate criminal? Here, rather, the older ones have to look in the mirror.
The older parents grew up with traffic hours and we were afraid that we might violate it and the teacher would see us outside the house, five minutes after the ban started. They wore aprons, we prevented the total disapproval of society for anyone who was a child at the wrong time. Anyone who did not want to learn letters, went and found a job. It was not yet fashionable to get a paper from university. But we lived within limits, sometimes suffocating, but that strengthened us.
The younger ones, parents today, grew up on their own in the age of relaxation. The traffic ban was lifted, the apron was abolished, school exams were abolished, the conditions for admission to universities were relaxed, places were increased and, most importantly, the money and the “simple” that society provided to young people increased. He took the child to university, to get him a car to go to school. We rent him a studio because we do not want a roommate. The same, however, for those who did not go to university.
From a young age, we taught our children to claim and get freedoms that were unthinkable for us. It would not be bad if there was a sense of limit. Every generation can and should enjoy the benefits of its time. But what should not happen is to remove its limits.
Many of us have removed the boundaries by ceasing to be involved in upbringing, giving weight to their own well-being. Devotion to upbringing presupposes self-restraint, squeezing and sacrifice of personal pleasures. When the parent, however, does not want to sacrifice his financial convenience, his trip, the night entertainment, he will sacrifice the quality of his children’s upbringing.
The parent is a role model for the child and that is inviolable. The pattern is not necessarily positive, in the sense that often the child tries to do the opposite of what he sees in his home. This is because the parent did not sit down to explain, set boundaries, and possibly did not try to justify his own worldview or behavior as presented to the minor.
Today’s teenagers or young hooligans are children of the crisis generation. The generation that grew up with all the conveniences and “dreams” of an easy life, which fell into depression, facing the consequences of bankruptcy. They are children of the generation that faced its own psychological problem, the denial of expectations and the problems of survival.
She did not devote time, except money, to the care of her children. They are children of the generation that, raised with convenience, did not invest in moral values and education and was content with flowing money, at whatever economic level each of its members was. Schematically and a little arbitrarily, the generation that had industrialists and bouzouki workers spend the same amount on flowers, has now lost control of its children.
The question is whether society has the courage to recover, to try rationally to redefine its values. Most likely, for a large portion of young people, the game is lost and all that remains is to limit, police, the consequences. Most likely, we have already created, indeed, the two-speed society.
In the second gear are those who, without necessarily having a financial problem, have run out of dreams, values and prospects or so they think. The biggest question is, and the answer is not yet optimistic, if the unthinkable murder shocked us so much that we look in the mirror and say: “It’s my fault too”. And I have to do something. To redefine. To work hard. State, society, institutions are the total manifestations of the “I” of each of us.
