Snooting Cocks

SO kids are roaming streets, taking drugs, smoking, getting drunk; school results are poor and elders are ignored! Sexually active at ever decreasing ages, subject to abuse, physical, mental and sexual, and, of course, when they get pregnant or in trouble are tossed onto the societal scrapheap! Entertainment driven by technology with a need for peer conformity and a parallel need to rebel against authority; play stations, cell phones, computer/internet access, music and clubs together with demands by parents and caregivers for good school results add to the pressures of being young.

But their immediate needs are hedonistic – to enjoy life to the full. Wow, this sounds familiar! The older generation in my youth said the same thing; I was not even allowed to listen to the new fangled “rock ‘n roll” and no motorbikes; such degeneracy would send me to hell.I never listened, of course! But changes are afoot.There is ample evidence of disproportionate increase in societal decay with drugs, STD’s, alcohol abuse and gang cultures plus a demand for sugar daddies (and mummies).Money/ luxuries have increasingly become objectives within themselves; status is measured by what you have not who you are; possessions are all.Hell hasn’t got me yet but the older generation owes some explanations.The increase in global wealth, an awareness of different life styles and increasing degrees of freedom contribute.Additional marketing pressures, especially those targeting kids, makes them appear inadequate if they do not have the right bling.And kids are cruel to those playing catch up; sometime this is intolerable and leads to antisocial behaviours to conform.Values are being eroded through this.This is why older generations have questions to answer as such pressures make headway in societies where respect of elders and a little bit of fear of authority are replaced by indiscipline and intolerance.Why has this come about? Kids are essentially mimicking what they see their elders doing.They see figures of authority, their parents, their teachers, lawyers, public officials and others cheating the system, financially, ethically and morally, and often getting away with it.They also see a society where drug dealers, thugs, thieves and fraudsters get away with it, crime pays, Yes, the media is partially responsible but kids are bright enough to know when funny things are going on around them; their grapevine, improved through technology, works.As part of this model, as many parents are now better off, they spend more time away from their children and leave them with the play stations, the TV and the internet – or maybe the technology itself is creating the divide? The less fortunate are doomed to become parasitic upon those who have.Money substitutes for quality time and love! The need for possession status and hedonism is rapidly replacing more honourable ideals; satisfying these needs is increasingly leading to deviant behaviour both financially and through intellectual dishonesty by those elders; even more ominously by figures of authority.The evidence? Public figures who use their authority and position to: avoid paying municipal accounts: fathers avoid responsibility for their children and fail to make maintenance payments decreed by Courts (is this not a criminal act?): public officials who have been in trouble in one area finding new senior positions in another – indicating crime may pay, or: public figures who have to appear in Court and fail to turn up.Such instances are widely reported (no doubt funded by a western imperialists!) and are indicative of apparently “acceptable behaviour”.Cocking a snoot at responsibility and honesty does not bypass our youth.With these sorts of example (and others are out there) it is clear that the loss of respect and contact is reducing the life of many kids to two dimensions; the depth of existence through family life or at least one with one parent, is being eroded.The need to work, or at least get the resources to support life and school funds, is becoming a tsunami.Cash is the fundamental of empowerment and survival, not relationships.Is it surprising that kids seek alternative sources of affection and company? Rising influence of gangs, clubbing, the chase for the 4C’s, car, cell, clothes and cash, takes over.After all rule bending is acceptable to their parents who buy off their responsibilities by giving the cash.It is also hardly surprising that educational results are sometimes gained through sexual means – the STG, sexually transmitted grades! Even more worrying is the increasing incidence of child pregnancy! Is it possible that girls, in order to get love, have children in order to satisfy that need from their babies? This thought arises from an apparent “pregnancy pact” of nearly 20 underage girls in a western nation (of course denied by authorities); they had no interest in the fathers, but just wanted to all have babies! Identity confusion is a consequence of this two dimensional life.The recent NBC show on student activity brought much of this to light, in a different light, when in essence, the discussion revolved around why student activism and involvement had declined dramatically.While the participants were sincere and capable, they missed the point.They focused on developing programmes for students, and naturally bemoaning the lack of (government) money.What they did not focus on was the need to develop a spirit of student rebellion against authority and the “status quo”; after all students are meant to be revolting in this essential phase of personal development.That is where the PASSION for future self development comes from, and kills apathy; the driving force is rebellion.The student rebellion of 1988 occurred in a time of seething political expectancy.Exciting times – and passion.That motivation is now missing.Future leaders have to find a new “cause célèbre”.Conformity and passive compliance are no substitute for “snooting cock” at authority! Rebellion creates passion; passion creates futures.Apathy kills.I shall now submit to patriotic re-education!Wow, this sounds familiar! The older generation in my youth said the same thing; I was not even allowed to listen to the new fangled “rock ‘n roll” and no motorbikes; such degeneracy would send me to hell.I never listened, of course! But changes are afoot. There is ample evidence of disproportionate increase in societal decay with drugs, STD’s, alcohol abuse and gang cultures plus a demand for sugar daddies (and mummies).Money/ luxuries have increasingly become objectives within themselves; status is measured by what you have not who you are; possessions are all.Hell hasn’t got me yet but the older generation owes some explanations.The increase in global wealth, an awareness of different life styles and increasing degrees of freedom contribute.Additional marketing pressures, especially those targeting kids, makes them appear inadequate if they do not have the right bling.And kids are cruel to those playing catch up; sometime this is intolerable and leads to antisocial behaviours to conform.Values are being eroded through this.This is why older generations have questions to answer as such pressures make headway in societies where respect of elders and a little bit of fear of authority are replaced by indiscipline and intolerance.Why has this come about? Kids are essentially mimicking what they see their elders doing.They see figures of authority, their parents, their teachers, lawyers, public officials and others cheating the system, financially, ethically and morally, and often getting away with it.They also see a society where drug dealers, thugs, thieves and fraudsters get away with it, crime pays, Yes, the media is partially responsible but kids are bright enough to know when funny things are going on around them; their grapevine, improved through technology, works.As part of this model, as many parents are now better off, they spend more time away from their children and leave them with the play stations, the TV and the internet – or maybe the technology itself is creating the divide? The less fortunate are doomed to become parasitic upon those who have.Money substitutes for quality time and love! The need for possession status and hedonism is rapidly replacing more honourable ideals; satisfying these needs is increasingly leading to deviant behaviour both financially and through intellectual dishonesty by those elders; even more ominously by figures of authority.The evidence? Public figures who use their authority and position to: avoid paying municipal accounts: fathers avoid responsibility for their children and fail to make maintenance payments decreed by Courts (is this not a criminal act?): public officials who have been in trouble in one area finding new senior positions in another – indicating crime may pay, or: public figures who have to appear in Court and fail to turn up.Such instances are widely reported (no doubt funded by a western imperialists!) and are indicative of apparently “acceptable behaviour”.Cocking a snoot at responsibility and honesty does not bypass our youth.With these sorts of example (and others are out there) it is clear that the loss of respect and contact is reducing the life of many kids to two dimensions; the depth of existence through family life or at least one with one parent, is being eroded.The need to work, or at least get the resources to support life and school funds, is becoming a tsunami.Cash is the fundamental of empowerment and survival, not relationships.Is it surprising that kids seek alternative sources of affection and company? Rising influence of gangs, clubbing, the chase for the 4C’s, car, cell, clothes and cash, takes over.After all rule bending is acceptable to their parents who buy off their responsibilities by giving the cash.It is also hardly surprising that educational results are sometimes gained through sexual means – the STG, sexually transmitted grades! Even more worrying is the increasing incidence of child pregnancy! Is it possible that girls, in order to get love, have children in order to satisfy that need from their babies? This thought arises from an apparent “pregnancy pact” of nearly 20 underage girls in a western nation (of course denied by authorities); they had no interest in the fathers, but just wanted to all have babies! Identity confusion is a consequence of this two dimensional life.The recent NBC show on student activity brought much of this to light, in a different light, when in essence, the discussion revolved around why student activism and involvement had declined dramatically.While the participants were sincere and capable, they missed the point.They focused on developing programmes for students, and naturally bemoaning the lack of (government) money. What they did not focus on was the need to develop a spirit of student rebellion against authority and the “status quo”; after all students are meant to be revolting in this essential phase of personal development.That is where the PASSION for future self development comes from, and kills apathy; the driving force is rebellion.The student rebellion of 1988 occurred in a time of seething political expectancy.Exciting times – and passion.That motivation is now missing.Future leaders have to find a new “cause célèbre”.Conformity and passive compliance are no substitute for “snooting cock” at authority! Rebellion creates passion; passion creates futures.Apathy kills.I shall now submit to patriotic re-education!