Death of Respect

This will probably sound like a - hard done by - post by a 'youth' who's continually pissed off at being plastered with same ASBO as the minority of cunts who make people's lives hard but fuck it, here it goes..

When masturbation and Indiana Jones followed by my weekly visit to Casualty left me unenamoured with bugger all to do, I found myself tempted to watch a documentary on BBC Iplayer called 'Death of Respect'. This programme sought to determine whether there was a genuine lack of respect and morality in these hustly, bustly, stabby times and if so, on whos door should the blame be left at in the shape of a flaming bag of dog shit?

At first I was expecting an hour-long diatribe on how the 'youth' of today is steadily eroding those crucial British values of respect, family, stuff-upper lip and tolerance. This was only a part of what it achieved.

At first all the show seemed to press was the lack of 'cap-doffing' when a funeral procession passes by. I think somebody failed to notify the host, who was bordering on ancient, that no fucker has a cap to doff anymore. What it didn't do, which was refreshing and somewhat surprising, was pillory today's generation as drug consuming, binge-drinking nihilists, who beat up grannies 24/7 and take a break from this arduous schedule of immorality and cuntitude to get another chav pregnant whilst keeping a firm eye on a coathanger to get rid of it.

It interestingly went further back to all the previous decades where young people have had a sense of individualism and movement. It blamed fashion, music and liberalistic ideas and it blamed the people who have given birth to children since the 60s. It blamed Thatcher, yuppies, money, drugs, secularism...in fact, it blamed all the major events in history since the 1950s as laying the foundations for this awful problem. It would have saved an hour of television had there just been a picture on a screen of a pointing finger, above it the words: 'It's all your fault you cunts!'.

I admit myself, that there are a group of young people in this country, not particulary belonging to any specific generation who don't deserve to breath the air that keeps them alive. What exactly can we do to stop this though? If I was too choose between Cameron and Brown to sort out wankers, it'd have to be Brown...at least he looks like he can fuck someone up and wasn't born with a rod up his arse.

Respect has arguably disintegrated over a long period of time, but the show made the point that an immediate solution just isn't there: if it took generations to lose the morality that we once held, then it's going to take roughly the same amount of copulating to get a fair crack at re instilling it. Sometimes I do feel a bit sick at seeing white kids act black, thinking its a particularly charming thing to be a slobbering, bent-legged retard whilst showing all the hallmarks of being a spaztick without knowing what one actually is. To be reminded of what a lovely person I am and how conscientious and responsible my friends are all I have to do is take a trip to my own secondary school at the years that followed me to see examples of individuals challenging Darwinism in their own devolved way.

It seems society and the press has put whole generations of young people in a bowl and whispered at us, showing a hating glint in it's half closed eyes 'you're fuckers and the world is shit because of you' when most of these members did, in their bygone youths, exactly the same excesses as todays 'youth' have seemingly conjured up anew. Thats my biggest problem with this.....problem: people say 'youths'....I'm a youth...does that make me a cunt too?

I'm not saying I have the answers to any problems...because I don't, but surely backing the infintely tarred entire youth into a corner is only going to induce people fighting their way out of it?

Rant over...smile :)

JPH