What is it that young people are so unhappy about that they feel the need to violate and damage a police car sent to oversee a party? Why is it that they feel the need to pelt rocks and bricks, to ignite a police car and completely destroy what was their ‘party’?
Presumably these youths had an unblemished record before the start of the evening. A number of them now have criminal records, have spent a night in the lock-up and irreparably affected their future. And all for what? Were they protesting against their situation in life, or someone else’s situation? Were they indignant about the treatment of boat people, or other political pawns in the system? Perhaps as students they had a bugbear with the government about its policy in Afghanistan.
In actuality, none of these. This generation of pampered, spoiled and over-indulged brats were merely bringing the chickens home to roost for a generation of parents who wouldn’t, or couldn’t, say no. Now the police and the judiciary have the onerous task of being the ones to instill what should have been parental discipline.
Categories: bastards
Tagged: discipline, Gen Y, spoilt brat
Bernard Salt, (SMH, 16/11/08), in his position as a demographer, which basically means he is paid to rail against the younger generation, has forthrightly taken fire at Gen Y.
Short of demanding that National Service be reinstated, or wishing for WW3, he has refreshingly revealed that Gen Y needs a ‘good shake-up’.
Conducting extensive research, this curmudgeon of collation has consulted both the baby boomers and Gen X-ers, to find that there’s ‘definitely the feeling that what these young people need is a jolly good recession’.
Mind you, this research probably means he had a few jars down at the RSL with his cronies, and a chinwag with his son-in-law at the weekend barbie.
In the interest of fairness, could I perhaps suggest a few other activities to pull this flighty Gen Y into line ?
For starters, how about ‘work for the dole’, even if they don’t receive it, or voluntary weekend detention. This would be almost as good a shake-up as an ‘all out curfew’ for those under 25.
Either way, it’s good to know that we’re on the same page here, Bernard. I wouldn’t want to be called a kindly or considerate curmudgeon.
Categories: bastards & champions
Tagged: baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Y
