On Jun 28, 12:42*am, Ian Jelf wrote:
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Mizter T writes







On Jun 27, 9:09*pm, Ian Jelf wrote:

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E27002 writes

Matter of opinion: technologically we advance by leaps and bounds.

OTOH the sorry state of Western Civilization is there for all to see.

Couldn't have put that better myself, I'm afraid.......

Must say I didn't have you down for a 'what is the world com
ing to'
type Ian!

I hadn't used to be like that. * Honestly. * And I still believe that we
live in a fabulous country in a good age where technology and liberal
social attitudes have given us more care and comfort than in history.

But I see people (a minority but a large one) who simply don't conform
to society's norms and just at best don't care about the common good and
at worst are positively hostile to it. * They don't see reasons for a
rule, so they just ignore it. * That applies to everything from theft of
metal to low-level stuff like feet on seats.

I've not been at the Daily Mail (honestly!) but I do see a lot (and I
mean a *lot* of different bits of Britain.

The degree of vandalism suffered by many preservation societies should
give us all pause. I can think of few things more disheartening than
painstaking hours of work by volunteers being destroyed in seconds.