Motivation of Today's Youth
A common fact is that as a youth, a person has more neurons which means it is easier to accept and store information. In simpler terms, when people refer to "Impressionable Youth" they are quite correct. So when the variety of influences, such as the media, the condition of their quality of life, the state of their loved ones and their lives, factor into the mind of a youth, it creates varying, sometimes intersecting motivations in life.
The first issue is one of the largest forms of influence that affects the most amount of people, the Media. The Media affects not only one social class but all. So the most amount of today (and yesterday)'s youth are affected by what they see on channels like MTV, Comedy Central, or the evening news. The problem lies the TV executives need ratings, and to get ratings they have to give the public what they want but not what would have the best effect on their aspirations. So what you get is Maury finding out if the man is the father or not, as opposed to Maury helping them emotionally to grow and have better dating/sex habits. In addition you get The "Real" World and other sorts of shows with shocking drama that influences the youth. And each season of these 
types of shows its the same formula of controversy with different names. "What will happen when we pair the flaming homosexual with a strictly christian bodybuilder with anger issues for an activity challenge!? Or will Kendra's love triangle take a dip when she gets shitfaced at a local nightclub with Miguel and Toby!?" Everyone knows the answer, but they still watch it anyway because its action that they don't have in their life or want to see happen to others.
All of this equates to a mass influence of youth that actually fuels itself. By promoting the drinking, the promiscuity, and uninhibited actions, they are fueling their ratings.
The news channels aren't at all an exception, sensationalist journalism is just this. "Violence! Cute puppies in tuxedos! Spring break in Cancun gone awry!! 49 dead!!!" Its not that news promotes negative motivation, but it doesn't do much to report all newsworthy events, because after all it relies on ratings as well.
Other factors that affect motivation in youth are their quality of life, and how they are raised. If a child is raised and told that they will be a failure, they will either be motivated to grow from the label, but many times may in fact grow into it and fully believe they are a failure.
Of course many youths take a different route and as they grow they mature and motivate themselves positively which is based on maturity level, I believe. My prediction is that as people continue to intake all of the sensationalism, MTV "Reality" and the rash of "Reality Shows" they will eventually see the redundancy in 'The Real World: 120th season!", the ratings will dip, and they will be forced to put out new concepts.
Therefore the toxicity invading the motivation of today's youth will most likely be remedied through time. Or it may get worse if the next "Reality" Show sort of concept is worse. Regardless, people will change as they always have, hopefully for the better.
Exeunt.
types of shows its the same formula of controversy with different names. "What will happen when we pair the flaming homosexual with a strictly christian bodybuilder with anger issues for an activity challenge!? Or will Kendra's love triangle take a dip when she gets shitfaced at a local nightclub with Miguel and Toby!?" Everyone knows the answer, but they still watch it anyway because its action that they don't have in their life or want to see happen to others.All of this equates to a mass influence of youth that actually fuels itself. By promoting the drinking, the promiscuity, and uninhibited actions, they are fueling their ratings.
The news channels aren't at all an exception, sensationalist journalism is just this. "Violence! Cute puppies in tuxedos! Spring break in Cancun gone awry!! 49 dead!!!" Its not that news promotes negative motivation, but it doesn't do much to report all newsworthy events, because after all it relies on ratings as well.
Other factors that affect motivation in youth are their quality of life, and how they are raised. If a child is raised and told that they will be a failure, they will either be motivated to grow from the label, but many times may in fact grow into it and fully believe they are a failure.
Of course many youths take a different route and as they grow they mature and motivate themselves positively which is based on maturity level, I believe. My prediction is that as people continue to intake all of the sensationalism, MTV "Reality" and the rash of "Reality Shows" they will eventually see the redundancy in 'The Real World: 120th season!", the ratings will dip, and they will be forced to put out new concepts.
Therefore the toxicity invading the motivation of today's youth will most likely be remedied through time. Or it may get worse if the next "Reality" Show sort of concept is worse. Regardless, people will change as they always have, hopefully for the better.
Exeunt.
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