Change is a constant dynamic that has been around in human history, it is impossible to say that today's society is exactly the same as it was five centuries ago. In recent centuries we have witnessed how peoples have been exterminated from how nations have been created and how powers have been built. The human being is a changing being. This is evidenced through diachronic and synchronic studies of history, in the last century many changes have occurred for the good of humanity such as the fact that life expectancy has doubled, world poverty is at its lowest levels and conflicts after the Second World War have decreased. However, many changes have also been made for bad this is the clear example of childhood regression, very little talked about by today's media.

Childhood has begun to disappear along with adulthood, leaving society immersed in an adolescence state characterized by immaturity and irrationality. From children under the age of 10 in fashion shows being hypersexualized to adults over 30 living with their parents, unemployed and having to be sued by their own parents to become independent. In his book "The Disappearance of Childhood" Neil Postman expresses concern about how our children's childhood has been progressively lost over the years due to the advance of mass media and their presence in the daily lives of children.

A child is not an adult until he develops his cognitive abilities and skills, a man becomes a man when he develops and learns to manipulate all these skills and is able to take care of himself. Previously, belonging to the group of adults or children was not a universal notion when understood from their social and cultural context. Adulthood differed between different social classes but there were boundaries between what was a child and what was an adult. In today's society, the child is in constant contact with the atrocities of the world and is not isolated in that imaginary world of positivism and happiness. The innocence and imagination of children have begun to fade with culture as their barriers and requirements for understanding are lost so that cultural expressions become meaningless and worthless banalities, expressions of a heterogeneous mass that once formed a nation. At the same time, the perception of age within the culture is lost and with it, moments and stages that form the integral ´progress and development of an identity for a child are lost, leaving only biological stages, which have also undergone a negative metamorphosis such as sexual maturity or hypersexualization in today's society.

With these conditions set out above, children who are unable to form a solid and logical judgment have to faced with a society based on unbridled consumption, full of all kinds of sexual content and full of violence. It is now common for children to develop diseases and psychological disorders that were unique to adolescents and adults in the past century. These children will be unable to become an authority or be a role model for their own children because they never went through the process of maturity. That's why in today's society news like this:

Or statements like this are very common:

Rates of depression and anxietyamong young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past 50 to 70 years. Today, by at least some estimates, five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or anxiety disorder as was true half a century or more ago.

On the other hand, we have that youth is something that does not have a definite time frame in today's society, it has become the way of life by definition of the Millennial generation. Youth is a lifestyle defined by habits of over-consumption of goods and ideas in an irrational and banal way. All you have to do is surf in youtube for 10 minutes and you'll see how banal youtube is, a place where most of the content is created by millennials. And so it is that we have a cultural industry that persists in prolonged adolescence where the idea that adult behavior consists of over-sexualization and vulgarity is preponderant because nothing is vulgar or indecent anymore, everything is allowed. Growing up, regulating, abstaining, all of this are considered freedom violations.

In a society where consumption is given priority over responsibility. As a result, we have a financial system based on excessive consumption where adolescents and young people are the main targets in terms of marketing. In fact, a company is more likely to sell more products to a young population than it can sell to an adult population. This has already been studied, the way in which different generations make use of their per capita incomes. The fault of infantilization lies not absolutely in the techniques of marketing and entertainment, these simply drive them, all this problem is due to an obsolete financial system that revolves around banks and their interest rates. Furthermore, in general terms, young people do not have a culture of saving money, so they use principles of convenience and spend on a diversity of services and goods whose value is very small, whose value to satisfy their needs is zero.

Culture is not something that is promoted and fostered, what is aspired of it is to be just another product that is consumed by the masses. Along with it, social life is devoured, where every action is part of a competition to climb the ladder of the social hierarchy. A childish society based on material concepts to fill emotional and abstract gaps. What predominates is the banal show and the appearance, the knowledge, and the truth are of no importance. To the point of idolizing and even supporting artists who overdose on drugs as if they were heroes and saviors of society. This millennial generation idolizes immature, illogical and absurd behavior.

And all this has ended up having repercussions in a society of entertainment for the consumer where any figure, no matter how important he may be, philosopher, writer, scientist or politician, has to go to banal entertainment shows and be treated like a juvenile rockstar because if he is not, it is as if he simply does not exist because he is not cool, funny or banal. Anything that does not happen instantly, immediately and satisfactorily is considered negative.

Zygmunt Bauman explains the intrinsic relationship between postmodern society and products in his study "Liquid Love", the author explains that relationships with products and services are translated into personal relationships in such a way that commitments between people lose value because they do not satisfy these needs immediately and instantaneously.

Infantilization has led to the child being exposed to a voracious world, without parental figures to guide and introduce him/her to the world. It has nothing to do with the awareness necessary to reach maturity. All of this, commented on above, locks society up in an infinite present where the past is nothing more than a collection of memories, so we come to the conclusion that the future is uncertain and that therefore it should not be foreseen or adapted for its arrival, the present is infinite, everything is ephemeral and nothing is true or real because, as the main subject is always young, he will never reach maturity because transcending would annul his youthful state that opens the doors of pleasure, consumption and banality.

In the face of infantilization, the paternal figure and a defender became demanded, and it is at this very moment that the state is granted absolute power to improve living conditions, ignoring this group of children's adults 2 millenniums in which the state has been the protagonist of being an aggressor due to the full power that was granted. And this is remarkable because of the millennial penchant for interventionist governments in the economy. These are ignorant and incongruous thoughts that prevail in millennials mind a state that censors, punishes decisive opinions, cases where the truth and justice transcends a stage of feelings and emotions, it is for the same reason that we see cases where a woman proceeds to legally sue a man because he calls her "pretty" in the street without any hostile spirit. All this generated by a paternal emptiness, a figure that instructs them about good and evil, about right and wrong, about the moral and immoral, a completely postmodernist society sinking itself into an era where there is no real value of the valuable.

The postmodern condition arises from infantilization, the emptiness of culture, and the lack of strong ideologies all this emptiness goes hand in hand with immaturity because the responsibilities and limitations of identity are denied and only immediate sensations prevail so as to lose their maturity and create a merely childish society and even to sink with it those who seek in some way to mature in this society, these are bombarded by the constant marketing full of childish ends. These messages end up condemning the individual to lose his perception of what freedom really is a mean.

Art, philosophy and what's really fundamental are relegated to minorities who are in short supply and who do not have the influence to bring what is really productive to society. In society, the discourse on the protection or defence of maturity and childhood is scarce; this is something that our society has not perceived and has not noticed. Childhood is one of the most important stages in the human formation, however this is no longer seen in the same way, children are seen as a burden or even as an 'object' that disrupts social progress and the quality of life of people. One only has to look at the current feminist discourse to see how children do not represent anything important to those group of women. Others take adulthood to children prematurely, through drugs to calm and silence them, or through audiovisual media full of entertainment and workshops without leaving them space for recreation.

The effects that this problem of childhood generates in society are already visible, in the university discourse of the students, the lack of interaction with the outside world is visible, the interaction between the teacher and the student becomes more and more difficult due to the fact that everything is considered offensive. Young people who can not only support themselves in economic terms but also in ethical and moral terms neither in emotional terms. This is why the most recurrent refuge is stimuli.

A solution to all this problem would not be as simple as demanding maturity, let's remember that the media exert a great influence on the individuals who make up a society, maturity does not only imply facing the facts but also not being carried away by the simplifications and reductionism that prevails today where the media and the Internet are responsible for explaining reality in a very brief way through summaries and generalizations.

Maturity demands acceptance of limitations and commitments, so it is understood that freedom does not find its virtue in a neutrality but in a capacity for compromise, that is to say, there is no point in freedom if it is never exercised fairly for the benefit of the individual and of society. Without an idea, freedom is nothing but indifference and social existence. It is that same lack of commitment and indifference that demands the protection of everything that makes you feel that your freedom is threatened, regardless of whether the defense of your own freedom ends with that of others.

The closest and most viable solution for the individual and society is to protect the childhood of those children who can still be saved from all of these proximate ills. It is possible to face up to reality and take responsibility for it; this already represents a significant advance for society. It is necessary to understand that all this problem expressed here is something that is constantly expanding and that awareness must be created within society itself, taking it to the table of dialogue and dissertation, making it the object of study so that we can all be part of the change and progress that has led us to the best years of humanity so far.

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