Judgment; They have been talking about it on the radio this Sunday, always a very good subject for Sunday;). I notice elsewhere the subject has also given some answers on poverty, today's poverty and yesteryear which was so different.
Firstly we cannot compare the poverty of the 20th century with today, through of the century there was no proper heating such as central heating, food was far more simple, schooling as well. The vast amount of choice did not exist, electronics that bane of today's society was just peeping above the horizon. Now we live in a spoilt Western world where everything is to hand, and we are still unhappy. Could it be that the human soul is always grasping upward for the unobtainable.
Do I condemn those people who live off the state, whose education and social background never taught them how to survive in a morally upright way, do I condemn them, or do I say, look at those baby boomers who have got rich on exploiting the technical wonders of today are they no less selfish?
The 'haves' and the 'have nots' co-exist very uneasily, we should be grateful for a state that supports the vulnerable, the grasping and greedy no, but they must be weeded out. Try reading Jackie Monroe -Cooking on a Bootstrap on the subject and then ask where our society has gone wrong. All those landlords who supply rotten housing for the poor to live in. A government who is prepared to welcome immigrant labour to take up the cheap s----- jobs in this country live in appalling situations in the citys and towns. Apart from anything else, we have become overcrowded and need a great deal more housing for everyone. And for all of us that have relied on the value of our house going up to fund our old age, well think on, our grandchildren have just been forced out of the housing market!
Paul will say O you have been having another rant again;) ............
Fracking again Meet the Yorkshire villagers fighting fracking.
Fracking again Meet the Yorkshire villagers fighting fracking.
My viewsare pretty much like yours Thelma. I don't know what the answer is. I guess our generation is the one which fared the best.
ReplyDeleteMy parents never owned their own house. nor did they wish to. They lived in a small village, next door to their landlord, and
they got on well with him. My dad was a keen gardener and my mother a keen cook. We never went short of food and she was also a good manager. But there weren't the temptations there are today. Food was simple, you made your own enjoyment, there was really little room for envy. Now everyone is bombarded with 'must haves', T V shows a fantastic life style for all and everyone wants it.
There is no answer, this is where we are at the moment, it would take an enormous shift to turn the tide. But societies do breakdown, we are going through a small one at the moment as women question the behaviour of men. And then, even in the US, the young are beginning to question the role of guns in their society, there is really not much you can do with "prayers and thoughts" it doesn't bring the dead back.
ReplyDeleteWe need a shift away from the modern belief that everything is always somebody else's fault and a return to taking personal responsibility for our actions and their consequences. I also wrote about poverty last night.
ReplyDeleteJust love the actions and consequence argument because I always use it myself! But where do you start in a society, as WG says when the evidence for the good life is right in front of them on tv.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a time when the classes were not so divided. It was after WWII and everyone was grateful for peace and got along. “Things” were not important but people were. It was not called charity to help each other; it was just what we did because we were neighbors.
ReplyDeleteIn some ways it appeara a 'golden age', but of course there was plenty of hardship. Unfortunately I think many people wanting 'Brexit' also think we will achive that sort of society - but the cynical amongst us would say 'as if.
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