Hey all.
Thought I'd be a bit provocative in GD...
Disclaimer: I am not religious at all. I also live in a London borough.
I went through school being quite a disruptive, annoying idiot but went to a CofE secondary and 24 years later I'm starting to wonder where some of those values I was "indoctrinated" with have gone. I'm not saying they're absolutely correct, but my school days were basically complemented by what you would call Christian values.
I was brought up to:
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
"Love thy neighbour"
"Thou shalt not steal"
and all the other prime directives, serve the public trust etc.
I've always lived in a very multicultural, mixed area with no problems whatsoever, however in the past few years I've seen my neighbourhood disentegrate into a free-for-all cesspit where no-one has any regard for anyone else whatsoever. It's got to the point where I'm actively planning to escape and it actually makes me quite sad.
Some of this is accounted by an influx of people from foreign cultures, granted, but I'm even seeing this amongst those I grew up with now. My question is, where have we gone wrong? No-one seems to give a toss anymore and people are dumping sofas, random crap and whatever they like on the pavement. No-one cares about noise nuisance late at night and there is blatant disregard for the police when it comes to drug-dealing on the street. Even the "Natives" are becoming feral and basically are in need of euthanasia IMO because they are all horrible, selfish human beings.
Should we regress and embrace more traditional values to rebuild social cohesion or is that hopeless now? I'm beginning to think we've gone down a path of every man for himself and we're pretty much screwed socially.
If I'm not talking crap, who do we blame and how do we fix it? I personally think other people are becoming more horrible rather than me being more intolerant but hey...
That is the end of my beer-fuelled post. Thank you
Thought I'd be a bit provocative in GD...
Disclaimer: I am not religious at all. I also live in a London borough.
I went through school being quite a disruptive, annoying idiot but went to a CofE secondary and 24 years later I'm starting to wonder where some of those values I was "indoctrinated" with have gone. I'm not saying they're absolutely correct, but my school days were basically complemented by what you would call Christian values.
I was brought up to:
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
"Love thy neighbour"
"Thou shalt not steal"
and all the other prime directives, serve the public trust etc.
I've always lived in a very multicultural, mixed area with no problems whatsoever, however in the past few years I've seen my neighbourhood disentegrate into a free-for-all cesspit where no-one has any regard for anyone else whatsoever. It's got to the point where I'm actively planning to escape and it actually makes me quite sad.
Some of this is accounted by an influx of people from foreign cultures, granted, but I'm even seeing this amongst those I grew up with now. My question is, where have we gone wrong? No-one seems to give a toss anymore and people are dumping sofas, random crap and whatever they like on the pavement. No-one cares about noise nuisance late at night and there is blatant disregard for the police when it comes to drug-dealing on the street. Even the "Natives" are becoming feral and basically are in need of euthanasia IMO because they are all horrible, selfish human beings.
Should we regress and embrace more traditional values to rebuild social cohesion or is that hopeless now? I'm beginning to think we've gone down a path of every man for himself and we're pretty much screwed socially.
If I'm not talking crap, who do we blame and how do we fix it? I personally think other people are becoming more horrible rather than me being more intolerant but hey...
That is the end of my beer-fuelled post. Thank you
