The Price one has to pay in a postmordern sg society
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Life in an urban city like Singapore comes with it many pitfalls. One of it is the moral decay and mental retardation of young people. A package of deceit manipulation and lies seem to be dominant and prevalent as one enters his or her third decade of life. As always it usually starts during the late teen years as mild and progresses. As one ages, urban life expereinces and pressures associated with it may bring out such characteristics in otherwise ordinary people. As people in their 20s seems hesistant in trusting one another, the trust which they had during their teen years simply degrades.
The source of this degradation may be past failures in love, obsession about money,women,love and power and sometimes paranoia seems to be the driving factors.Sometimes psychological problems play a role too. As i write this article, i do notice signs of an increasingly superficial, selfish and power hungry world.People now are eager for immediate success and achievement In the past, morality restrained people's behavior. But now the strength and scope of moral restrictions has shrunk. People don't think about the means; they'll just do anything.This is reflective of a nation where morality is generally defined according to one's feelings. In a postmodern society, where people do not acknowledge any moral absolutes, if a person feels justified in engaging in a specific behavior then they do not make a connection with the immoral nature of that action. Yet, deep inside, they sense that something is wrong in our society. They simply have not been able to put two and two together to recognize their personal liability regarding the moral condition of our nation
Until people recognize that there are moral absolutes and attempt to live in harmony with them, we are likely to see a continued decay of our moral foundations
But the world is a place worth fighting for.
It's up to everyone reading this right now to silently ponder on how to live your life. It's time to go back to your Synagogues and Churches, and learn the basics of the moral codes . You can save this world, but it all begins with YOU and YOUR personal relationship with others. It will be a slow process, but if we all start NOW, we can turn this world around and make it a better place for all and for the future. -
Singapore society? Post modern?
Dude, check out the meaning of post modern la
/studies post modern philosophies
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postmodernity more specifically refers to the state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. A related term is postmodernism, which refers to movements, philosophies or responses to the state of postmodernity, or in reaction to modernism.
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Hypocrisy is the act of pretending to have beliefs, virtues and feelings that one does not truly possess. The word derives from the late Latin hypocrisis and Greek hupokrisis both meaning play-acting or pretence. The word is arguably derived from hypo- meaning small, + krinein meaning to decide/to dispute. A classic example of a hypocritical act is to denounce another for carrying out some action whilst carrying out the same action oneself.
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A very nicely thought out post.I agree with you that there is a increasingly lack of trust and love amongst all of us, and we stand gulity of being very quick to condemn and snipe at others who are not we nor like us in likeness.Originally posted by 90s_Teen:Life in an urban city like Singapore comes with it many pitfalls. One of it is the moral decay and mental retardation of young people. A package of deceit manipulation and lies seem to be dominant and prevalent as one enters his or her third decade of life. As always it usually starts during the late teen years as mild and progresses. As one ages, urban life expereinces and pressures associated with it may bring out such characteristics in otherwise ordinary people. As people in their 20s seems hesistant in trusting one another, the trust which they had during their teen years simply degrades.
The source of this degradation may be past failures in love, obsession about money,women,love and power and sometimes paranoia seems to be the driving factors.Sometimes psychological problems play a role too. As i write this article, i do notice signs of an increasingly superficial, selfish and power hungry world.People now are eager for immediate success and achievement In the past, morality restrained people's behavior. But now the strength and scope of moral restrictions has shrunk. People don't think about the means; they'll just do anything.This is reflective of a nation where morality is generally defined according to one's feelings. In a postmodern society, where people do not acknowledge any moral absolutes, if a person feels justified in engaging in a specific behavior then they do not make a connection with the immoral nature of that action. Yet, deep inside, they sense that something is wrong in our society. They simply have not been able to put two and two together to recognize their personal liability regarding the moral condition of our nation
Until people recognize that there are moral absolutes and attempt to live in harmony with them, we are likely to see a continued decay of our moral foundations
But the world is a place worth fighting for.
It's up to everyone reading this right now to silently ponder on how to live your life. It's time to go back to your Synagogues and Churches, and learn the basics of the moral codes . You can save this world, but it all begins with YOU and YOUR personal relationship with others. It will be a slow process, but if we all start NOW, we can turn this world around and make it a better place for all and for the future.
Those who walk the path of morality and goodness have been unfairly painted as dowdy and old-fashioned.And it makes me sad to look at the youth today, people who are in their teens and already paying so much homgae to the god of self-consolation and falsehoods.
What is lacking today is substance, the actual willingness to suffer for what one believes in is almost gone, replaced by a ambiguity which neither nourishes nor teaches, and it does not heal, rather it splits up society.Tolerance has been corrupted into a shameless display of promotion of the most hideous and depraved ideals today.
I take great pride in the knowledge that I stand tall and beyond the wavering falsehoods that try to bring me down, this is not pride, rather this is belief in something greater than the current fad or the naked worship of anything progressive but specious.
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The term hypocrisy is also commonly used (some would say misused) in a way which would be more specifically termed a double standard, bias, or inconsistency. An example would be when one honestly believes that one group of individuals should be held to a different set of morals than another group.
Very often, religions are used in this context. One could quote Jesus who says: "Let the one who is totally guiltless throw the first stone," pointing out that one must first be sinless in order to judge someone else for their sin. This is often used as an argument by some Christian denominations against capital punishment, pointing it out as a hypocrisy: You kill the man for killing a man.