Decayed Culture in Nigeria Institutions

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The catalog of coarseness – especially among our youth – is exhaustive. We may not be paying attention because of the struggle to survive, but pornography is rising rapidly. The concept of childhood innocence is gradually slipping through our fingers.
In entertainment, crudeness often substitutes for creativity. Most of us still frown upon incest, the sexual abuse of children, and public inferences to sexual acts. Yet even these are not universal convictions; search any of these issues online, and one will find that each is advocated by a surprisingly large and articulate collation of persons and groups. Parents shouldn’t be surprised that their children are already aware of these issues.
Are you also aware that public shame is no longer as strong as it used to be in the past? To the discerning Nigerian, these things are not just troubling but deeply painful. The statistics on divorce, cohabitation, abortion, out-of-wedlock births, addiction to drugs or alcohol, etc. are indisputable proofs of a people in moral free-fall. Our indignation is tempered by a humble grief; even the redeemed struggle with challenges, but at least they are aware. Are we doing too little to stop the cascade of sludge seeping into all aspects of our culture?
It remains disappointing that too often; many Nigerians are so self-preoccupied that they are startled by reports of vileness and irreverence in popular culture and the varsity “cold rooms” like the BBC just exposed. Many are shocked when they learn of the breadth and depth of cultural decline, but they shouldn’t be.
To express surprise upon learning of a university forum for “porn stars,” the inability of secondary school students to differentiate between honour and self-gratification, “music” that glorifies “Yahoo Yahoo,” “I don hammer,” and the epidemic of alcoholism among adolescents is only to reveal one’s inattention to the society around us.
Already, we now have “cross dressers” in our society. Men want to become women and vice versa. It used to be a western problem, but gradually we’re learning to “accept” and “live” with it.
It is in this cultural milieu, one in which the line between decline and fall is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish, that discerning Nigerians can provide the light and warmth and clarity of the morals of old and live out its tenets with countercultural abandon. To stand with and for the truth always is to affront the zeitgeist and point fingers toward the right way.
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