What would people of 20-30 years ago think of our society now???

Question

Political correctness and Health and Safety regulations are spoiling our society. Illegal immigrants and bogus asylum seekers are taking our money and our housing. Drug culture is rife, guns and knives are common among youngsters. Teenage unmarried mothers are commonplace and the government encourages them by throwing money at them every time they produce another little bas*ard.Discipline in nearly non existant and respect for police, teachers and elders is gone.
What happened to make our country like this?? How can we go back to the way it was??

I'm 52 and yearn for 'the good old days' when you could go to town on a weekend and not get attacked by boozed up yobs. You could leave your door keys in the door without fear of being burgled...

I'm 52 and yearn for 'the good old days' when you could go to town on a weekend and not get attacked by boozed up yobs. You could leave your door keys in the door without fear of being burgled...

Anyone got a solution...or at least a reason for it?

Stephen M...don't be daft...of course people had stuff worth stealing, it's just that people kept their hands off other people's property.

Germaine...This IS my motherland.....and i know there were unmarried mothers around then, but not half as many as today....and they're actually proud of it!!. I like foreign people of all races but I don't want illegal immigrants here taking our money etc!!!

Answer 1

I'm 57 and I find that parents today don't take responsibility for themselves or their kids. Unmarried folks with kids...feel so sorry for the kids. I don't know what happened, but I didn't grow up this way. I never felt deprived, I don't remember anyone having anorexia, and my parents encouraged us to be physically active. I got my as-s torn up if I needed it. Girls who got pregnant in school could not attend and it was a shamful thing to have a child without marriage. I respected my parents and went to work when I was 14. I made my own spending money. We never worried about locking the house, or anyone kidnapping us. I could go to New Orleans with my girlfriends at age 12 and just walk around all day long without being bothered. And I always had an extra nickel in case I had to call home. We had the greatest music of all time that I still listen to after all of these years. We knew HOW to dance...not bump&grind. A stripper was next to a prostitute and wasn't something one aspired to do. We came home when the street lights came on. We ate dinner together as a family. It was a great time. I feel sorry for today's kids. Godloveya.

Answer 2

I'm 41 yep i agree with you, there was more respect for people and property then, there was such a thing as discipline.

political correctness was just some idiot's idea of how to justify his existence and so was health and safety! we had more freedom and way more fun, but we had respect for others!

the yob culture is probably due to the doogooders in Whitehall back then banning punishment and discipline in schools and homes, so now the little fckrs can get away with beating up and raping teachers and anyone else they want without having to suffer the consequences!

if only the doogooders could be made to answer for all their stupid ideas and decisions!

Answer 3

I like the way everyone believes the world was so much better in the past. It wasn't, today we are much wealthier, healthier and have more opportunities than we ever had in the past.

My Grandad made a good point the other day. He said in the 50s everyone left their doors open and people would walk in and out of houses. they did this not because there were any less criminals but simply because they had nothing worth stealing.

Go back 20 or 30 years. The country was perpetually on strike, unemployment was increadibly high and the country was fallign apart. go back then and you will still complain.

Maybe rather than complain about the present and wish for the past all the time some should try and improve on the problems we have today while enjoy all the advantages we currently have.

Answer 4

Ehh....a touch sketchy. What with the Civil Rights circulate contained in the 60s and the 70s Vietnam Protests, it really is a touch frustrating to assert. i can say this although, a minimum of once you went to college contained in the 60s and 70s you knew that some thing like that could want to ensue, yet now a days you not in any respect comprehend even as some disturbed individual is going to bypass on a mass killing spree. also, youthful toddlers in worry-free colleges and extreme colleges are transforming into into on the act, making all colleges, no longer unavoidably universities, best objectives for criminal events.

Answer 5

Its not 20-30 years, its 40-50 years, started in the 60's

Answer 6

They'd probably drop dead of a heart attack. But the only difference between then and now was that back then everyone was repressed.

You act like girls never got sent away the a "relative's" house and came back a little chubbier. There were also immigrants, but you probably don't remember their accents or the accents of your ancestors.

And if you don't like being polite and tolerant of others different from you, maybe you should go back to your motherland.

Answer 7

As a person of 20-30 years ago (and more, as are you!) I can answer with some degree of authority. I think we have to go back further than that and look at the two World Wars in which people sacrificed life and limb to make our nation one fit for heroes and to protect us from invasion and, generally, to defend what it was felt our country stood for. What would they think at the idea of our country being given away, as it has, by our government? We have been betrayed not by fifth columnists, but by those appointed to lead us. Legislation has been passed over recent years which has had the effect of rendering us powerless to deal with the worst excesses of behaviour in our midst, first and foremost the Human Rights legislation, which sounds so noble on paper (well, of course, aren't we all in favour of human rights?), but which in practice ensnares us and robs us of our freedom of expression. The Abortion Act made us a nation of murderers and I was reading an article recently in which the writer wondered what future generations would make of us, destroying life in this way and subjecting viable foetuses to cruel and agonising deaths. The fiction, of course, is to term them "pregnancies" rather than babies. This particular legislation, together with the availability of contraception, has led to the sexual promiscuity which we see today. There is no doubt but thaqt some single mothers deliberately become pregnant in order to get council housing and that single women from abroad form liaisons with men established in the UK in order to be allowed to remain in the country and to be given housing. There is no shame any more, although thirty years back it was still a disgrace to produce illegitimate offspring and where I live there was even a beauty contest recently for single mothers "to encourage them". Encourage them in what? I believe that not all that many years ago any woman teacher becoming pregnant had to resign. Now, of course, that would be discriminatory. What example is being set for children? The ease with which one can divorce nowadays has led to endless broken homes and dysfunctional families and it was evident with anyone familiar with youth courts even before they carried out research to establish this that young offenders were highly likely to come from broken homes. When one's parents are divorced it often makes one more prone either not to marry or to divorce as soon as the going gets tough, so the problem carries through to succeeding generations. Even the Church (I speak of the institution generally) is giving way on so many issues and is thereby losing its moral high ground and its authority. Not only is it condoing things which are explictly condemned in scripture, but too many people are preaching prosperity theology of the kind rife in the Corinthian Church whereby once one has made a profession of faith, one can relax and expect the Almighty to prosper one in all one's ways.
We can't turn back the clock. But we can pray. Pray for revival in our country now. That is our only hope.

Answer 8

I'm appalled by it and Ive been around since the 60s.

Answer 9

I'm 44, and i think this country is slowly going to the dogs!

Answer 10

i'm from 35 years ago and i think our freedoms aren't what they once were..