Continuing on from my blog yesterday, I find it disturbing that many people conduct themselves in a manner that would make our Grand Parents cringe.
There are now so many people who are so downright rude it amazes me that noone has ever pulled them up on it. Then push into lines, despite others in a queue that have been there before them. Then when they are challenged they either get aggressive or are genuinely shocked that someone dare tell them that they are wrong.
This is a direct result of the changed attitudes in our society that began changing in the mid 1980's as I mentioned in my earlier blog.
Almost daily I hear people at work whinging about everyone else or they feel compelled to humiliate another publicly as if its their right to do so. However, these same people are often mortified when the tables are turned and the focus of negativity is aimed squarely at them.
From a young age, there is nothing wrong with firm discipline. A tap to instill your displeasure at your youngsters behaviour is perfectly acceptable in my view. If you disagree and feel that a pleasant chat will suffice and that a medium smack is a form of abuse then you must study many species in the animal world of which we are a part of.
Study the parents of cats, dogs, monkeys etc etc and you will see that when the parent has had enough of their youngs behaviour they will use an element of force to show their displeasure. The force slowly increases until the unwanted behaviour ceases.
We (humans) are no different. Because of this anti-discipline culture of ours we now have 3 or 4 generations who simply do not know boundaries. Many people think it is their right to abuse others, steal others belongings, vandalise someone elses property and generally just do what they want and when they want to do it. Heaven forbid, someone should stand up to them, at which point and all too often hell breaks loose.
Just look around suburbia and on public transport. There is hardly a wall, fence, sign, post, window and even trees that have not been covered in meaningless grafitti. I cast my mind back to when I was at school in the 1970's and early 80's, never did myself or my friends even contemplate vandalising someone else's property. It never even entered our heads. In about 1983, one girl in our class thought it funny to scribble on the floor of the bus. Her happiness soon turned to shame because the rest of us thought she was stupid for doing it and more importantly thinking of it.
What do these people get out of scribbling a tag on a tree, sign, fence or post and then scratching the same garbage into a window? What sense of fulfillment do they get? The answer is none! They do not have respect for themselves let alone for others and their property.
Back when I was growing up, it was the simply fact of fear of consequences. Consequences from the law and more importantly consequences from my parents. Sadly, these days people do not fear consequences from anyone, because largely there are none. Civil libitarians go into bat for people who continually do the wrong things as apperently they have rights!! Well, what about the rights of the person/s who was assualted or property vandalised? The civil libatarians have no comment on this issue.
I firmly believe that if we need to build more prisons for people who do the wrong thing, then so be it. We could keep our costs down by operating our prisons like the one in Maricopa County in the U.S where it is practically self sufficient. Make prisoners work. Chain gangs, work groups. Building roads and property maintenance just to name a couple of tasks easily outsourced to this burgeoning labour force.
Anyway, thats my view.
Until next time - May your God go with you
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