?ETHICAL REVOLUTION
Ethic: Determination of right and wrong. System of morals. Principles of right conduct.
Pursuit of good. Meaning of moral codes. Standards of behavior. The criteria or evaluation
used to determine all of the above.
Revolution: A drastic change in a condition, method, or idea. New order or system.
Radical change.
The Ethical Revolution. It isn’t a revolution that has fully happened yet. In fact, it’s
happening now. Moral standards are rapidly and radically changing. This largely affects society
in many ways. People see nothing wrong with they way we act and think. It’s all a phase. It
doesn’t matter. You’re making this a bigger deal than it is. Why should I care? I like things this
way. The future depends on how our generation deals with social issues, but unfortunately the
way we are dealing with things is in a selfish, live for the moment, throw away the past manner.
No one takes the time to realize concepts or analyze anything. Nothing is thought
through. Little time is devoted to how we act now-how it effects what happens next. If you ask
someone about virtue, truth, morals, ethic, profound thought, they say they understand. If you
discuss such things as drug abuse, abortions, and other social conflicts, even as little as social
status and acceptance, you receive opinions on how wrong these all are: Of course I’m against
them. What’s our society coming to? It’s no wonder, the way school’s being taught now. It’s
our government. Parents-it’s always the parent’s fault. The media. All given excuses won’t
take away the fact people can not truthfully and confidently say they know what’s really
happening to our society. They aren’t able to give true definitions–not just what the dictionary
says–but a true meaning of what’s really behind virtue, morals, and the other things I mentioned.
And there lies the problem. If you don’t understand, if you don’t know why, how can your
correct something? It’s sad that, though you may not be stupid, you see there is a problem, you
really don’t understand. You can’t.
So what is the problem? Is it the overlying issues-ones you can see a direct result from?
Is it really the drugs, the abortion, the drinking, the unreasonable actions by so many members of
humanity? That seems to be what everyone thinks. The problems now. The issues now.
Mentally we’re tearing our lives apart. It’s not the actual issues. It’s what’s underneath them.
WHY would one turn to peer pressure, alcohol, teen sex...? WHAT makes someone so desperate,
so far away from help and the point of return that they would kill themselves. WHAT causes the
issues? HOW could we stoop so low into our own selfish desires that we have so issues? When
did we turn so far away from our past; people who fought for real causes, people who cared, tried
to make a difference? Is it we have nothing left to fight for? Nothing to work towards? Why
should we be left to file mindlessly like clones, drones, wandering mindless sheep? Following
everyone else who may have already fallen to life’s corrupt way, never to fully think things
through for ourselves or question. It shouldn’t be enough to know how or what if you don’t
know why. People are so happy thinking they understand something without grasping, without
analyzing the real concept. There are so many campaigns to change this and that-to make such
and such better. You accept what you’re given, even if it means giving up what you stand for,
throwing away potential, never really listening to those left still trying to fight to hold society
together.
Whatever happened to being able to listen to and discuss ideas, even if you don’t agree.
We laugh at others who have so much to tell. The same people that say they understand, that
want to make a change, that want to help the so-called “unpopular, unpretty, un-athletic, and all
the other social standings we judge people by, are the ones who are the hypocrites. Do they
honestly and truly care? No. As long as none of the social misfits disturb their “higher” way of
life. They’re being overly grateful when they throw those last little social crumbs to the ones not
acceptable. It’s so easy to say you’re helping, or you understand when you’re on top. The ones
on the bottom of the social scale are shoved behind the mask of modern society. Their ideas,
hopes, and voices are silenced. The sheer audacity that they would speak out against the masses
horrifies people. Hidden is truth and justice. It’s easiest to ignore and stop the ones who could
possibly burst that bright bubble.
All of this not listening, not caring, not hoping, not working shows in all areas of our
lives. Work ethic-trying your hardest to do your job. School-striving to do things to the best of
your ability. All of these past moral thoughts are gone. The things former people strived for.
Home life-throwing away advice offered by the ones who’ve been there, done that; who lived in
a time when people didn’t have everything. It’s sad the new mind set is falling back, when the
rest of our world is advancing. We’re so stuck on ourselves. No one wants to be the person to
get involved. It’s easier to shut ourselves away in what we already know and to stay in the dark
than to question.
And how this is a revolution is because in past years, as I’ve partly mentioned, people
worked towards set goals, tried to change things, make things better for the ones to come after
them-us. Unfortunately, the now ethical and social revolution we’re going through won’t make
things better; won’t be a benefit to the people who follow us. The way our minds and the
thought process we now have goes drastically effects the standards of living now and where we’ll
be in coming years.
REFERENCES
Mike Mahan. Where is society going? Copyrighted 2000.
Funk and Wagnalls Desk Dictionary. Volumes 1 and 2. Copyrighted 1984.
http://ethics.acusd.edu/index.html
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/egoism.htm
And my visual also partly is you. All of you. Look around-your classmates, your friends, your
family. Why are you really here? You don’t necessarily need to fully understand that, for few
people ever do. But asking yourself why, living to try to make a difference, not following
everyone else-that will be the next part in the ethical and social revolution. Bringing society back
from where we’ve already fallen.