I am old enough to remember that despite the troubles of the 1970s and 1980s when London could be dangerous with bombings and the like, the people were generally law abiding citizens and you didn't seem to get the anger and dare I say it, self entitlement that you do these days.
Rose tinted glasses perhaps? I liked London for all the reasons a young hot blooded youth would. Live music, drinking (not so much restaurants) later on the theatre but you could have a good time and generally not have any trouble or problems, travel was easy and getting there and back wasn't a problem plus I had the stamina of youth - I probably didn't need to sleep for a month (no not really). I could do a day's work then meet some friends go to various places to see a band have a beer and then get the second to last train home and be up two or three hours later on my way to work again. I was only limited by the amount of money I had and we were paid weekly back in those days and in cash!
Today I look at the deceitful politicians and the way people treat each other and it really is quite different. I'd go and see my grandparents and they were obviously from a generation that had lived through the war as adults, my parents had as children and there was I with my long hair and flared trousers, platform shoes and the next generation but we had manners and let people on and off the trains before us and would help someone with a pram or shopping up and down stairs or escalators, we'd use words like please and thank you and mean it, hold doors open and offer your seat to people. Courteousness and civility, they seem to disappear with people's self entitlement.
I always smile, say please and thank you and when on the phone I will never use bad language or be nasty to a phone operator as they have a hard enough job as it is. Always get their name and use it when talking to them and always than them for their help. It costs very little to make other people feel better about themselves, to perhaps slightly brighten their day but also, they've helped you out too.
The lies and deceit of people, the in your face hypocrisy - just look at the behaviour of the BBC for example and the number of people entitled to tell YOU what to do. These are thick illiterate bastards as far as I am concerned and those are the people I am beginning to hate. Thinking of my career (my first one) I had to go to college for three years to get my qualifications all the while working on site. If I did something wrong I could kill someone so that's why it is important. After many years I was promoted and then, and only then, could I tell (I actually ask normally) someone what to do. I had the experiences, skills, practical background and qualifications to do so.
Today, look at the dross the reel out to tell you what to do. Politicians who have never had a real job and have existed in the system from leaving University. Councillor, lobbyist then a local MP and what do they bring to the benefit of their constituents? That's right, sweet Fanny Adams. They are a bunch of pathetic, entitled no nothing naive fools and that's insulting fools! What gives them the right to be as utterly stupid as to think they can pontificate on any subject is beyond me. I'd rather trust Wikipedia or the Guardian than one of these low life smug gits.
It doesn't stop their either does it? Football pundits who know exactly what is going on is Israel or the Middle East and telling us which way to vote and what we should be thinking and actors, yes actors, those who's whole life is pretending to be other people demonstrating their financial (in) competence and explaining why socialism and communism are good things all the while sipping their Campari and Soda from their multi-million pound villa in Jean-Les-Pains. All the while the gullible drink it all in, bloat on reality TV and Soap Operas and pick up all the bad habits of selfishness, greed, excess and gluttony and think it is how to behave.
Roll on the day when the Electricity system falls apart from mindless green stupidity and we no longer have to watch TV, look at our phones and tablets and emerge blinking into the sunlight and talk to each other, be nice to one another and go back to having real lives. Maybe we will reawaken that greatness and pride we once had without being called racist which everything is these days or some other slur like denier words used when you cannot discuss things and want to stop the conversation.
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