Kids

Doncha just love ‘em, the little mites with their cheeky smiles? No actually I don’t.

We live in troubled times. Troubling times anyway. Our moral perspective is way out of kilter at the moment. Nothing illustrates this better that the way we treat the young. Are today’s children rampaging satans? Are they maniacal demons? Could they be abusive little thieves?

Or, are they delicate little flowers that need procecting from Marmite adverts. That’s right. There is a new evil in the UK and it isn’t predatory paedos. It’s Marmite adverts. Or it could be conkers. Let kids play conkers and they’ll all end up disabled. Actually, it’s probably football. Football is to blame for everything that’s wrong in society. Mrs Thatcher said so and when has she ever been proven wrong about anything?

What is going on here? When did kids become innocent blossoms incapable of sin unless corrupted in some way by the society around them? It’s rubbish. Where did Charles Dickens get the inspiration for the gang of young criminals in Oliver Twist? It wasn’t just from his brilliant imagination, it was because there were gangs of evil kids running round pinching anything not screwed down. By all means take reasonable precautions to protect kids from the worst excesses of the world around us, but if we carry on in this fashion the next generation of young adults will be a bunch of whining ninnies as able to cope with the pressures of modern life as my cats are able to solve quadratic equations. It’s a tough world. It sucks a lot of the time, there are plenty of people out there who’ll cheat and lie and much, much worse. The sooner people get used to it the better.