The thing that makes them different is the fact that they will paint RACIST on Churchills statue and set fire to the flag on the Cenotaph.
Previous generations of Protesters wouldnt have dared to do these things
Full of entitlement, very aware of their rights, unaware of their responsibilities, and unaware of or have no respect for what previous generations went through to give them the privileges they now enjoy and abuse.
I fully agree as that really angered me as it was done by ignorant people, probably full of hate, who did not understand at all what type of insult they were perpetrating on most decent people who have an inkling at least of what those symbols represent.
However, they are a minority in terms of numbers of the current population. They are also the generation that WE have raised and the efforts over the last 6 decades to get away from automatic respect of our "elders and betters", the ruling classes, and the 'doff your cap' black and white attitudes of that past. We now live, for better or worse, in a time when the masses CAN feel they have the right to challenge authority and not go along with everything they say or tell the masses to do. It has taken centuries to get to this point in the country's political and social evolution, greatly accelerated in the twentieth century, which has been assisted by some very bad / crass/ crap decisions and policies of "the high and mighty" leaders of those times. Respect has to be earnt in the modern age, and in the twentieth century the high and mighty leaders proved how they should not be respected by way of their actions. The Great War set that off, with then many bad decisions that affected the working classes where over the decades attitudes have changed as they no longer feel constrained by the rules and regulations of their times.
Now I am a Conservative, tinged with Socialism, believing in law and order, but recognising the events of history and how the working classes were downtrodden and poorly rewarded. In the context of this thread, I also recognise the blatant racism that has existed in my time, and still does. THat is the cause of the disrespect that some will openly display in public, that may anger us as in the case of Churchill and the flag, but that is the democracy WE have created, in a society that values consumerism more than God, Queen, Country, and other people. At the same time the young no longer can see a secure work life in our, whats left, industry that we allowed to be discarded, so they continue to have limited choices that in today's world they rebel against. But WE collectively expect the young to just get on with it and moan when they do bad things. THAT IS THE PROBLEM.
What is now required is a solution, but I reckon that will take a little longer to come about looking at the continuing weaknesses in our political system and all the time capitalism exists as it does, which actually suits me (so I'm as wrong as many others!!) but is making the divide between rich and poor so much wider.
After saying all that, I will continue to state that not ALL the young are wasters and disrespectors, not by a long way, and actually are showing real grit in battling on to get the best out of life, just as WE did all those years ago, and previous generations did as well
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