On cinema and bad behaviour..

after my comment on the article on the Bucks Free Press web site comments like this arrived…

pastyboy wrote:
I certainly don’t think this behaviour is restricted to just the cinema. It reflects the true society of this country as a whole. Selfish, greedy, poor manners and a general lack of empathy of others around them. Welcome to the UK!

sadly, you are so right. There is no respect for anyone or anything.

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Having just returned from living and working in Australia and the USA, and travelling around Asia I think the respect and empathy issue is a global one amongst ‘younger’ people and I think it’s us the older generation that have inadvertently created the problem.

I have a fairly solid belief that those of us born in the 60’s and 70’s created a prosperous world to live in and took a lot for granted. We created a world where our children thought easy living, plentiful energy and food supplies were normal and jobs were easy to come by.

Unfortunately the world changed, war returned, fuel & food prices went up, technology reduced the availability of work and us older people have lived longer and stayed in the work force for longer.

Couple this with failing political systems, banking/financial services greed and cuts in education and health budgets and I can see why the younger generations are disillusioned.

We can’t just blame peoples attitudes, we the elders of society need to reshape it and help younger people through tough times and to understand their place now and in the future.