Ralph’s Place

Saw this on the BBC today, and thought I’d share…

No time to think?

It seems the big issue these days is ‘Respect’. Whether in politics, at music festivals, in sport or just in the words you utter under your breath at the inconsiderate, overpaid dingbat who pushed past you on the tube this morning. The issue of ‘Respect’ is all around us in today’s society.

In Japan - and this is brilliant - they’ve even gone one step further and enlisted the help of manners police to help bring the issue under control.

I don’t have answers, but it does make me wonder sometimes… how did things end up like this. Not necessarily all bad, per say, but different. What changed, what events occurred that slowly but very surely meant that each generation was just that bit more rebellious than the last?

The more you think about it, the more obvious the answer appears to be. The clearer it becomes just how much control one thing has over the development of a child’s mind and what they perceive as normal behaviour. You can even see how this thing has developed and adapted in an attempt to follow cultural changes without realising that it is itself the driving force behind any real change.

You can probably see where I’m going with this. You only have to watch a bit of children’s TV today to see how obvious the differences are to when you were a child. Where once we had stories with morals, and heroes who prospered by doing the right thing, now we have nonsense that’s neither particularly stimulating for a child or educational. We have ‘cool’ shows that glamorise the bad guys as much as the good and leave the child to make the distinction themselves based on… what?

We all either learned our respect from our parents, or the tele, whichever we spent more time listening to… and as time goes on the TV is starting to win, could it be time to start fighting back?

Spotted this in the news this morning on the BBC Primary children ’suffer stress’.

I wish I could say it gets better *sigh*

BBC News - Tackling Violence

I hope I would. Would you step in?

Saw this report on the BBC today about out-of-date food in supermarkets. (Program Whistleblower showing tonight at 9pm on BBC One)

Even after filtering out any media overexageration and sensationalism, it makes you think twice before picking up meat from the “reduced” section doesn’t it?