> > Here's an article also on the theme of British violence. > http://www.slate.com/id/2301233/ > > stan >
it's rather a confused article, like so much that's been written about the events of this week. She writes "thus did they become the inkblot in a kind of national Rorschach test: Everyone sees in them the political issue they care about most", then goes on to what seem to be her own pet theories - in any case, she displays her own prejudices - by writing "The welfare state really has left a generation of young people feeling both dependent on government handouts and entitled to more". But she says nothing to back up this very Tory claim (nobody else ever does either), and doesn't appear to consider what the country would be like without a welfare state (as it was for all the riots between 1066 and 1945). Then she ends by writing "Beware of sweeping political generalizations". D'uh! Sometimes things just happen. I think this has been like the obverse of the sudden outburst of joy a couple of years ago when we had the great snowfall in February, but violence has been a fundamental part of British male culture since the Dark Ages at least - it's what the notion of 'gentleman' is supposed to restrain - so it should be no surprise when sometimes it gets out of hand. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
