People don't seem to realise how society is being watered down and how pathetic law and order as well as moral values are being excused as being normal. Things were not always as they are now, and I can tell you, in many ways they used to be very much better!
Being educated in the 1950s, if you didn't come up to the expected standards for the year/grade then you simply didn't move to the next grade. You stayed behind and got it right. It was a good incentive to put the effort in and get it right the first time and most did.
Most kids by the end of primary school, (7th grade) could do a half decent job of managing the English language and basic arithmetic.
From my experience these days that is no longer the case.
Kids leave high school still unable to do basic arithmetic, add things up, multiply, divide etc. as is amply demonstrated at the supermarket checkout when the operator who tells me that this is their part time job while they are studying for a commerce degree, are struggling to work out the change due from a $50 note for the $43.20 worth of shopping I got.
Regarding modern day so called 'law and order', in the 1950s our house didn't even have a lock on the door. It was impossible to lock the house up even if we wanted to. And we never did.
We went off to school and left the doors and windows open to let the breeze in so the house would be cool when we got home. Not once in the 20 years we did this did anyone enter the house to rob us.
Most of my friends houses were the same.
On summer nights, the windows and doors were left wide open to let the breeze through. It never crossed our mind that someone might enter the house illegally because it almost never happened to anyone. If it did it was front page news and the offender was dealt with accordingly.
If dad took us to the beach we left the car unlocked and the windows open so the car wouldn't be hot to get into when we went home.
One of our cars didn't even have an ignition key. It just had a switch on the dashboard. They were never stolen or robbed.
Compare this to today where you have to keep your house locked and windows closed and locked, even when you are home!
If you don't and someone enters your house and robs you, it is reported that the police hold you partly responsible for not keeping yourself safely locked up.
Your car not only has to be locked with the windows up, it has to be fitted with an immobiliser so that when someone breaks in, they still cant steal your car. And if you don't fit an immobiliser, and it gets stolen, then it is your fault!
And this is now seen an 'normal'.
Is this the price we have to pay for being seen as an 'educated, caring and tolerant' society?
If so then I think it's time we became a little less educated, caring and tolerant.
