Obedient Children

There were some protests on Bonfire Night in London by people who do not like the cuts to welfare and so-called 'austerity'. As far as I could see these supposed radicals were not much interested in liberty, so perhaps it was appropriate that many should wear a mask depicting a man who tried to inflict a Catholic dictatorship on England.
For four hundred years the English have remembered the 5th November with thanks, being glad not to live under a tyranny, like the countries of Europe. Of course now we are increasingly ruled by Europe, our law and our liberties have been sold by our Quisling rulers, and the meaning of Bonfire Night is quietly forgotten.
For centuries the English were the most dynamic and inventive people in Europe, unencumbered by the dead hand of Catholic hierarchy. Unlike many Europeans they were not vicious self indulgent children, but responsible, autonomous adults.
Englishmen were free.
These days we see the effects of hierarchical living, at school, at work, in the nursing home, in the ever increasing childishness of our young people. Not so long ago people in their late teens and early twenties were setting up homes and having children. This seemed perfectly natural.
But these days young people flee from adulthood. So degraded, so indoctrinated have they become by years of repetition and passivity and conformity, that they believe that adulthood is a burden, that what they want is an endless alcohol and drug fueled play time.
In traditional society it was thought that a person was capable of making moral decisions at the age of 7. The next stages of maturity were 14 and 21.
But in modern commodity society, where everyone has a boss, where everything has a price and no value, people of any age take few independent decisions. As long as they follow the regulations and obey their 'superiors' they believe that all will be well. There is no need for the Ten Commandments. Any moral law is seen as an imposition, an unwelcome intrusion into their childish self-indulgence. At school ethical teaching no longer is a matter of such things as honesty, courage, endurance, loyalty, but of modern manners, racism, sexism, wearing a condom.
 The commitment to a husband or a wife, the responsibility of looking after a child, both physically and spiritually is beyond these big children. They want to play games, go-karting, skiing, cycling, dancing, focused on themselves, helped along by copious amounts of drugs and alcohol to help them blur the disturbing awareness of their vacuous beings.
Modern people, they're just not serious.