Mincing few words, Max Hastings offers some of the best thoughts I've come across on the root causes of the maniacal riots ravaging Great Britain. I think many, if not all, of his observations can easily be applied to the spate of recent flash mob attacks in Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Chicago and DC. From the Daily Mail:
A former London police chief spoke a few years ago about the ‘feral children’ on his patch — another way of describing the same reality.
The depressing truth is that at the bottom of our society is a layer of young people with no skills, education, values or aspirations. They do not have what most of us would call ‘lives’: they simply exist.
Nobody has ever dared suggest to them that they need feel any allegiance to anything, least of all Britain or their community. They do not watch royal weddings or notice Test matches or take pride in being Londoners or Scousers or Brummies.
Not only do they know nothing of Britain’s past, they care nothing for its present.
They have their being only in video games and street-fights, casual drug use and crime, sometimes petty, sometimes serious.
The notions of doing a nine-to-five job, marrying and sticking with a wife and kids, taking up DIY or learning to read properly, are beyond their imaginations. ...
So who is to blame? The breakdown of families, the pernicious promotion of single motherhood as a desirable state, the decline of domestic life so that even shared meals are a rarity, have all contributed importantly to the condition of the young underclass.
Read on. It's a sobering piece, but the observations contained therein are right on and brilliantly conveyed by Hastings. The truth must be confronted.
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