Dotty Olde England
What was once charming and eccentric is now coarse, no longer refined. Britain is no longer what it once was. There are few social restraints and constraints, it would appear, against public intoxication by the young and the cool. Social manners and just plain courtesy appear to be in shockingly short supply. Values that were once a mainstay of a country that knew itself have suddenly plunged and become grossly devalued.
Young people who should know better have become brain-dead to their place within society. Good citizenship appears to have shipped out, leaving behind goons, yobs and social misfits. There always was an underclass of such people of retarded social intelligence, there always is, in any society, but they appear, in the last few decades to have become so commonplace in sheer numbers as to disgrace the country by their commonality.
Political-ideological fanatics countered by leftists appear also to have resulted in another kind of dysfunctionality. Naturally enough, that of political-ideological distances and social disturbances. Some of whose exemplars travel to other countries to spread their ideological bilge; people like George Galloway, for example. Just one example.
Labour has now brought in an "equality law" which makes a mockery of just how absurd a society presents when it has been unsuccessful in imbuing its new generation with reasonable social values rather than vacuous self-absorbed searches for what passes as 'pleasure' and 'good times'. Under the newly-passed law it has become an indictable offence to offend.
Slights, intended or otherwise, offensive words or suggestions which embarrass or anger others can now be seen as cause for litigation. People are now free to sue one another for perceived harassment, off-colour jokes, or unpleasant or uncomfortable banter. Which, given the zeitgeist currently in flavour seems rather absurd.
How can one insist that their dignity of person has been violated when their behaviour is lacking dignity to begin with? Such awkward details...
Young people who should know better have become brain-dead to their place within society. Good citizenship appears to have shipped out, leaving behind goons, yobs and social misfits. There always was an underclass of such people of retarded social intelligence, there always is, in any society, but they appear, in the last few decades to have become so commonplace in sheer numbers as to disgrace the country by their commonality.
Political-ideological fanatics countered by leftists appear also to have resulted in another kind of dysfunctionality. Naturally enough, that of political-ideological distances and social disturbances. Some of whose exemplars travel to other countries to spread their ideological bilge; people like George Galloway, for example. Just one example.
Labour has now brought in an "equality law" which makes a mockery of just how absurd a society presents when it has been unsuccessful in imbuing its new generation with reasonable social values rather than vacuous self-absorbed searches for what passes as 'pleasure' and 'good times'. Under the newly-passed law it has become an indictable offence to offend.
Slights, intended or otherwise, offensive words or suggestions which embarrass or anger others can now be seen as cause for litigation. People are now free to sue one another for perceived harassment, off-colour jokes, or unpleasant or uncomfortable banter. Which, given the zeitgeist currently in flavour seems rather absurd.
How can one insist that their dignity of person has been violated when their behaviour is lacking dignity to begin with? Such awkward details...
Labels: societal failures, Whoops
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