What others tell us.

This issue of parental over-protectiveness towards children these days is one that will not go away. The resultant lack of a self rooted knowledge stemming from ones own experience, will be lost.
 
I mentioned in a blog I wrote not long ago, how impressive the energy and self belief of people like Victor Serge.
How unselfish were the aims of many in society in those days, as they struggled to overthrow the tyranny of the Aristocratic Establishment at the turn of the twentieth century.

Somehow I can't imagine the current crop of young people (other than the ones with religious conviction) giving up their career and and engrossing themselves in the argument abut the egalitarianism within society.
I venture to say that the youth of today, given some notable exceptions,has its focus on self projection and the reward accruing to the individual.
The slavish worship of celebrity, a roll model for so many.The massively inflated salaries, completely disassociated from the ordinary man in the street. How removed from the ideals of Victor Serge and others of his generation.
When I was young it was common for people to collect in a public meeting, in halls and at group meetings held on waste ground in the city centre.     People were acutely aware of the importance that politics play in our lives. Decisions made by a small "collective", effect us radically but in terms of democracy we are limited to a single opportunity, every four years, to register our own views.
Yet there is nearly total antipathy, particularly amongst the young, towards any sort of engagement in the political landscape.
Why and how has it come about ?

I could be wrong and of course and its not the whole story but perhaps the lack of connection to those around, a connection we absorbed as we played out with friends went camping with friends caught buses and shared our space with everyone, all without the filter of a parent !!

1.   How disabling to ones development to have someone heralding the dangers of this and that at every turn. The word "don't", "mustn't", "shouldn't"  must ring in every child's ear from a very early stage.

2.  It then gets taken up by the State, as it nannies the people to guide them through a centred, cotton wool environment without any sense of risk.

3.  Combine this with the ideological straitjacket that has been fed the populous for the last 30 years and you understand how confined we are to what 
    "others"  tell us !!