A social revolution?

StevieJ

Pobby wrote: »

Great posts!!!! I think the 60`s did spark off quite a bit more than just free concerts. I knew loads, like me, in their teens who were politically active if a bit wet behind the ears. I remember CND marches and getting roughed up by the police in Grosvenor Square. Some say that they USA protests and draught card burning did much to stop the war in Vietnam.

This seemed to carry on right up to the poll tax demos. The last demo I was involved with. I think that the people protesting on the street did much to get the poll tax reforms.

Loads of youngsters in my family. If you asked them who the PM was it`s possible they wouldn`t know and care even less.

I don't think the parents in the 50's 60's had such a great view of those times terms like 'long haired layabout' were often heard drifting on the breeze Maybe it is just a function of getting old.

Conrad

Pobby wrote: »

Imho we have judged ourselves as a society as not what we are but what we " own "

Humans I fear always seek to categorise one another on the basis of things like intellectual capital or financial standing. Tribes people use cattle and wives - you'd think one biatch would be enough:eek:

I recall Cambridge students, very much talking the talk of meritocracy and equality in one breath and slagging off the non university locals as plebs in the next.

Conrad

30 years after the death of Christ a prominent Church elder wrote something along the lines of this;

"Christmas has become a vulgar materialistic exuse for people to gorge and indulge, we need to get back to the founding principles"

I kid you not, this was recited on Radio 4 recently.

In other words as we get older we always always think things have got worse, indeed I'm sure they have, but then so did all my fore fathers, which would indicate perception is a very blunt instrument.

StevieJ

Conrad wrote: »

30 years after the death of Christ a prominent Church elder wrote something along the lines of this;

"Christmas has become a vulgar materialistic exuse for people to gorge and indulge, we need to get back to the founding principles"

I kid you not, this was recited on Radio 4 recently.

In other words as we get older we always always think things have got worse, indeed I'm sure they have, but then so did all my fore fathers, which would indicate perception is a very blunt instrument.

You amaze me, I thought the Romans created Christmas around 400 AD, you live and learn

sb44

vivatifosi wrote: »

Small things wind me up: the fact that many people can't be bothered to take their trolley back in the supermarket; or don't open doors for people at shopping centres when they are clearly struggling with prams/wheelchairs and so forth; or getting the bird from the driver behind me because I let someone out in traffic; or the feral kids for whom it is ok to kick a ball around your car because bizarrely it apparently isn't safe for them to go to the local park any more.

It winds me up when I see people dropping litter in the middle of the street and when people open and eat food/drink inside the supermarket before paying for it.
:mad:

Geenie

matthewcb wrote: »

As the main drivers in society are greed followed by fear, I confidently predict nothing will change.

Remember after the 9/11 attacks, the US indulged in a lot of naval gazing and many commentators were certain there would be a new dawn of a more caring, less materialistic society? What happened to that?

If history teaches us anything, it's that we don't learn from history. For example, in 2020 Labour will probably be given the chance to ruin the country again!

I think the USA has had a real wake up call from this crisis. Who would have thought 3 years ago that the American car industry would be on it's knees, because the people have realised that the gas guzzling tanks they took for granted, fuelling up with cheap petrol, are no longer seen as such a good buy anymore, and they have been turning elsewhere for transport and cheaper running costs!

Am I the only one now, who looks at some flashy 4x4 tank, needing oodles of petrol and being driven around a city by a lady who lunches, who doesn't think "what a prat" rather then admiring or being envious?!

Cleaver

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I hope my kids have loads of sex with different people, learn to play the guitar and piano, be in a rock band, be a hippy and live on a boat, basically everything I wanted to do, but never did

If you've got a hot, 22 year old daughter I can probably help you out with that first aspiration.

clobber_2

Conrad wrote: »

I recall Cambridge students, very much talking the talk of meritocracy and equality in one breath and slagging off the non university locals as plebs in the next.

Yes, more entertaining was when they did this in the wrong pub.

*bash*

clobber_2

Cleaver wrote: »

If you've got a hot, 22 year old daughter I can probably help you out with that first aspiration.

But not if she's 21. Or 23. Oh no.

Cleaver

clobber wrote: »

But not if she's 21. Or 23. Oh no.

I only sleep with with women 22 and over with palindromic ages.