I remember Mrs Thatcher saying that.
On Saturday I got the train into a local town and 4 or 5 young lads were sitting in first class riding a scooter up the aisle and generally messing around and the rest of us passengers said nothing.
On another occassion I have said something, and although other shad been visibly agrieved at someone elses behaviour they all said nothing.
It seems to me that is because the young vandals have community they have each other, but we have been persuaded out of ours and it is everyone for themselves….
It is all Me Me Me, now and at the most we can be persuaded to think as far as our families, this is why when an old lady waits in Accident and Emergency for 6 hours to be treated, it will be her family that complain, never thinking that whilst she had an accident the doctors and nurses may have made her wait because others had become a medical emergency.
This is because we do not think of others except as the enemy, as vandals as chavs, as criminals. We have been persauded that we should be frightened of ‘Others’.
Of course it goes without saying that many think that public services like the health service mentioned above are superseded by private ventures. What is it that makes the new privateers, those that venture into business buy their first BMW, and then on to private health care and send the kids to private school.
Everyone of these actions is part of the fragmentation and dissolution of our society, so that we stay divided and conquered. And ever we ask for services paid for by taxes, they are described not as acts of spcial care and cohesion, as things that bring us together and maintain social structure and the pressure to abide by societies mores, no they are called in the UK….’The Nanny State’.
So the mass of society has nothing that joins it across social class and geography, whilst the criminals, the vandals, the small business men and women do have something. this is their desire for money and their disrespect for the mass of ordinary people.
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I would like to see a political group stand up for more public services because i beleive they bring a sense of togetherness and public spirit, I don’t mmean the kind of public service where all aspects of it are contracted out (look only as far as cleaning in hospitals to understand the disaster this can bring), I want to see publically owned services. With the
collapse of communism we have thrown the baby of social policy out with the bath water.
What is it like in your community, perhaps you are lucky if you live in one of the more socially minded countries of europe or not so lucky if you live in the USA. In my own I see much that is great but constantly see things that mask the general break down of peoples care for each other which is normally embdied in the public spirit, the kind of public spirit that brought the great public services, and I would dare say the bringing in to public ownership of utilties like Water and services like Rail.
We know longer know each other, perhaps because our countries and locales have got larger with a greater population. This lack of knowledge of each other means that we can no longer exert the social pressure that keeps litter of the streets or gets them swept regularly, we cannot speak up against the louts, because we do not know their parents or the local policeman, and louts these days carry a frustration and violence that seems to far exceed our past experiences.
There is always money for war, for encouraging us to be together to attack in the pretense of care and this is another distortion, along with the nanny state and public services are not as good as private, that we are persauded to live with.
From the moement we allowed Mrs Thatcher to make such claims as the lack of society, we were doomed, her and her political party, the politics of the privateer (Pirate) have dominated.
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