Riots

I wrote a piece some time back called the University of Life and another called Precious Metals. They've never been more relevant than they are today.


The recent riots have led to a beam of damming light clearly trained on the young in our society. By young I mean the youth, but that somehow seems straightaway to have a bad collective connotation.

There's no getting away from the fact that the rioters and looters actions were totally despicable. They did untold damage to businesses in their path and have raised peoples homes to the ground.

I would not for one minute suggest that there be any let off for the actions of those involved in the horrendous events of last week. They should be shown that their serious lack of judgement has caused them in return equally serious consequences.

But one thing's for sure, the youth, the younger section of society is definitely the hot topic. It's long been recognised that something needs to be done to address issues that affect the young. But now perhaps something positive will actually happen.

The recent riots were frightening to witness; and a damming indictment of our society. It seems always to be the case that we need to reach melt down before any serious and lasting action is taken.

I've heard sweeping statements on TV and radio stating that the kids of today are no good, have no respect, or that they all speak or dress badly. First of all that's just not true and it's totally counter productive.

What I will say is this; if [older] people see the younger generation as the enemy [and it seems that many do] then they should learn to know their enemy. That way they may start to understand them.