Nanny is to be congratulated in her efforts to achieve harmony between teenagers and adults, seemingly they are both afraid of each other.A recent survey by IPPR, entitled "Freedom's Orphans: Raising Youth in a Changing World", of adults living in Europe found that Britain is becoming a nation in fear of its teenagers. A growing number of people now refuse to go out after dark, because they feel intimidated by young people hanging around on the streets.
The survey found that people in Britain are more afraid of teenagers than in any other country. This fear is known as "paedophobia".
The report found widespread fear of verbal abuse, physical attack and reprisals. It also found that lack of adult supervision was leading to a growth in youth crime and violence.
Nanny responds to this fear by imposing Asbos to control hooliganism, vandalism and disruptive behaviour among young people. The Asbos have been deployed against children as young as 10 and have included prohibitions on loitering on street corners, and curfews.
Some new housing developments have gates to keep youths out. The Government has also ordered parents who fail to keep their children under control to attend parenting classes, which includes instructions on how to get their children to go to bed.
However, as noted at the beginning of this article, we should not despair. Nanny has brought about balance, and achieved a form of "Ying and Yang", by ensuring that all adults are regarded by the young as being paedophiles and as such should be feared.
Harmony has been restored!
So far as I know Nanny has not yet defined the precise moment when a 'young person' metamorphosis into a young persons fearing 'Old Person'.
ReplyDeleteSurely that is the root of the problem - people do not understand whether they are young or old ...
Is a 21 year old female a girl or a woman?
If you are a 19 year old male are you a man or a boy? Does that qualifying label change if you are in the Army in a desert somewhere?
I think we should be told.
I read somewhere recently - I wish to God I could remember where - that a woman received an ASBO for her young son. He was, in fact, so young that he was not due to be born for another three months yet. Nanny, as always, on top of things and issuing pre-emptive ASBOs to the unborn.
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell this has to do with old vecks and ptitsas trembling before gangs of ultra-violent droogs, I'm not sure. Anothony Burgess saw the whole mess coming in '62.