TALKING ABOUT 'THE CULT OF MOAT'.'Of course, it is obvious now that the unleashed passions of the new underclass are pretty nasty. How could they not be?
They have been brought up to be nasty, or at least nobody in our neon-lit, raucous Babylon has ever had any opportunity to persuade them to be anything else but nasty during their formative years.
The cultural revolution of the Sixties robbed the British poor of anything to believe in, or any reason to try to be good. Patriotism was derided and rejected.
The Christian religion was mocked, marginalised and studied – if at all – as a weird curiosity.
The stable two-parent families in which children learned manners and morals were more or less abolished, so that a household with two continuously married parents is now a luxury item, as is an orderly classroom.
The virtues of patience, stoicism, thrift, temperance, constancy and modesty were reclassified as ‘repression’ and ‘inhibition’ and all were encouraged to cast them off.
And they did, so that on Friday and Saturday nights it often seems as if half the young people of Britain have decided to dress as hookers, and the other half as convicts newly released from 19th Century hulks.
We are nearly back to the days of William Hogarth’s Gin Lane, only without the high-minded evangelists trying to rescue the poor from wickedness.
Anthony Blair rode the tide of slime after Diana’s death by pronouncing her The People’s Princess (or rather, by obeying Alastair Campbell’s instruction to do so).'
When are you ever wrong, Peter? - It really can't be all that often!
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