Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Report lists new 'social evils'
Report lists new 'social evils'
Dundundun...... Time to panic again people!!!No seriously.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7356713.stm
They asked 3600 people to fill in a questionnaire to find out what were today's top 10 evils. Then they went to the minorities and asked them to have their say. This is what they came up with..
The decline of community
Individualism and selfishness
Consumerism and greed
A decline of values
The decline of the family
Young people both as victims and perpetrators
Drugs and alcohol
Poverty and inequality
Immigration and responses to it
Crime and violenceI agree mostly with what they have come up with, and they do admit that a lot of them are interlinked, want a cure? Bring back industry.
I can't speak for everywhere, but certainly here it all went a bit pete tong when they closed the shipyards, unemployed people started looking for hope in the bottom of a bottle, families were so poor they couldn't afford ANYTHING let alone the newest nokia!
So where from the likes of the 80's did we go from poor depressed unemployed diving into the bottle to the social anarchy we have now?
The Decline of the Community
OK, for a start.. what community? are we talking church community, the community defined by all the little gangs (YRT, YGP all that nonsense)?. The simple fact is that communities are for little villages, or social groups. The overall "community" that people wish for wont come back, the population is too high! (yet one of our councillors complained to the newspaper not that long ago that we who do not have children are selfish, and that we need more children..wake up ans smell the nappies people!)
In cities there is no such thing as a community they way it used to be, people are to scared of losing their privacy, in fact people these days are having to learn to ignore their neighbors, because if we are honest about it, we can hear everything they say through shoddily built council flat walls anyway! Community wont exist unless people can trust each other, and with peoples washing getting stolen off their washing lines, grave goods getting stolen to pay for drugs, and a"good kickin" being the answer to most peoples problems these days.. it's not going to happen.
Individualism and Selfishness
Whoa doggy! What are we talking about here?? Individualism is bad? No i don't think so.(conformconformconformthegovernmentisyourfriendconformconform) I am an individual, i think off the beaten path, it doesn't make me a bad, or a socially irresponsible person. In fact, i am more likely to help my neighbors out BECAUSE i don't conform.. being a bad ass gangsta doesn't float my boat, i don't want to seem well 'ard, especially if that means i can't help old ladies across the street if they need it! You can be individual and not hurt society... you just have to know where to draw the line. Now on the other hand, if you mean only looking out for yourself... that comes under the same category. I have found that you have to have some element of this to survive today.. if not follow these simple instructions....
Write "Doormat" on your back
Lie down in any heavy pedestrian traffic area
Sigh and complain about your lot in life.
The line people.. the line!
You know what, I'm not going to go on, because they are all mostly linked. It all boiled down to no hope. People overspending to try and maintain a semblance of a happy life, so their kids don't get bullied at school, so they can feel that their quality of life doesn't suck. Having the newest thing that is shovelled their way because they would appear poor without it, being so cut off from everyone because no one knows who to trust anymore.. It all boils down to poverty.
I hate to quote from Mrs McCaffrey once again, but in her Decision at Doona book, society has slipped into lethargy, kids don't see the point in getting a Job because they spend their life working for what? more work! The rewards are simply not enough anymore and the stress is simply not worth it. So what happens to the socially disillusioned youth? Mrs McCaffrey's book has it that they begin to commit suicide in alarming numbers, not much hope to go on, the last great thrill...
Seem familiar?
19th Bridgend suicide shock
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1065518.ece
Sorry to say people that this was only the case with the highest exposure, so many more happen and we don't even know about it.
How do we fix it? Find safe secure jobs, security for the workers so that they aren't getting exploited, or sacked for the least thing! contracts that last longer than 6 months.. hell! takes that long to sort out the paperwork with the social sometimes!
Give people something to live for, and they will start respecting society again.
Ear defenders my arse!
Courtesy of The "Times Online"
"Pipe down! Brussels slaps a noise order on heart of Scotland"
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3779828.ece
A attack on not only bagpipers, who spend years practicing to play the iconic instrument, but also on rock bands, brass bands, in fact anyone who dares to make and noise whatsoever....
Have any of you read Decision at Doona? It's an Anne McCaffrey book. Read chapter 2 regarding where Big Caring Brother is taking us.
Myself.. i'm going to ignore it with the contempt it deserves and am looking forward to the summer when the highland games and pipe festivals start up!
"Pipe down! Brussels slaps a noise order on heart of Scotland"
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3779828.ece
A attack on not only bagpipers, who spend years practicing to play the iconic instrument, but also on rock bands, brass bands, in fact anyone who dares to make and noise whatsoever....
Have any of you read Decision at Doona? It's an Anne McCaffrey book. Read chapter 2 regarding where Big Caring Brother is taking us.
Myself.. i'm going to ignore it with the contempt it deserves and am looking forward to the summer when the highland games and pipe festivals start up!
Saturday, 19 April 2008
First post over...
Now to the real business...
Polygamy. I think it's OK!
Don't get me wrong, I'm not for the likes of the FLDS. Some of the stories that come out about them are hair raising, but on the other hand, I'm not one of these people that believes that humans are meant to be strictly monogamous. Whether thats the whole polygamy/polyandry thing, or just eyeing up someone other than your bit of stuff, it's up to your personal morality to decide. Some people are fine with their other half blatantly sizing up the other fish in the sea, and some go absolutely bonkers!!
What I'm trying in my own meandering way to say is... if they aren't hurting anyone, leave them alone! But if they are then do something about them!
The sticky issue is what do you call OK? Is it OK for the FLDS to encourage their daughters to marry 50yr old when they are 18? Personally i don't think so, i also think that what they are doing is tantamount to child abuse. Well what else do you call brainwashing?
Living in a community of like minded people, maybe without the same beliefs or ideals as the"rest of the world" appeals to me, i always was an oddball. i don't care what kind of mobile phone i have, i don't own the latest hair straighteners, never mind visit the hairdresser very often, and to be perfectly honest, the only way i choose shoes or clothes is if they look moderately OK, and are going to last for a while. But if children were involved, i would give them every opportunity to see the outside world, to experience not only the good, but the bad side of life, to grow their own opinions and ideals. Not be so secluded that they mimic the only things they see..
Polygamy, very sticky subject. But when it all comes down to it, what we are talking about here is sex.Lots of people have blended families these days, the breakdown of the family unit is making it more like the old days when the extended family had a larger role in the way families are raised. It's not unusual for kids to have 2 mothers and fathers, they just see them as family. It's when we add sex into the equation that we reach the trouble part, the kids for the most part of it don't see the sex part, and if they do (heaven forbid! ) it's a case of "ewww!!! get a room". In general they don't, and flatly deny that their parents are sexual beings, so unless sexual abuse is an issue, where is the problem?
I guess the problem is that society states that monogamy is the only moral and acceptable relationship. Not being satisfied with only one person in bed is wrong, and dirty.
Am i the only one who's asking why?
Polygamy. I think it's OK!
Don't get me wrong, I'm not for the likes of the FLDS. Some of the stories that come out about them are hair raising, but on the other hand, I'm not one of these people that believes that humans are meant to be strictly monogamous. Whether thats the whole polygamy/polyandry thing, or just eyeing up someone other than your bit of stuff, it's up to your personal morality to decide. Some people are fine with their other half blatantly sizing up the other fish in the sea, and some go absolutely bonkers!!
What I'm trying in my own meandering way to say is... if they aren't hurting anyone, leave them alone! But if they are then do something about them!
The sticky issue is what do you call OK? Is it OK for the FLDS to encourage their daughters to marry 50yr old when they are 18? Personally i don't think so, i also think that what they are doing is tantamount to child abuse. Well what else do you call brainwashing?
Living in a community of like minded people, maybe without the same beliefs or ideals as the"rest of the world" appeals to me, i always was an oddball. i don't care what kind of mobile phone i have, i don't own the latest hair straighteners, never mind visit the hairdresser very often, and to be perfectly honest, the only way i choose shoes or clothes is if they look moderately OK, and are going to last for a while. But if children were involved, i would give them every opportunity to see the outside world, to experience not only the good, but the bad side of life, to grow their own opinions and ideals. Not be so secluded that they mimic the only things they see..
Polygamy, very sticky subject. But when it all comes down to it, what we are talking about here is sex.Lots of people have blended families these days, the breakdown of the family unit is making it more like the old days when the extended family had a larger role in the way families are raised. It's not unusual for kids to have 2 mothers and fathers, they just see them as family. It's when we add sex into the equation that we reach the trouble part, the kids for the most part of it don't see the sex part, and if they do (heaven forbid! ) it's a case of "ewww!!! get a room". In general they don't, and flatly deny that their parents are sexual beings, so unless sexual abuse is an issue, where is the problem?
I guess the problem is that society states that monogamy is the only moral and acceptable relationship. Not being satisfied with only one person in bed is wrong, and dirty.
Am i the only one who's asking why?
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