The new face of horror: Senile delinquency
(”Horror has a face… and you must make a friend of horror”)
“O tempora, o mores”, as the old Romans used to say – or, if your Latin is a bit rusty: “We’re so fucked!”
Most of these sorts of laments come from older people complaining about the pace, practices and preposterous pitfalls of modern life in general and, of course, the intolerable behaviour of the younger generation in very detailed particulars.
Of course, we, the descendants of the barbarians who did for the Romans, are truly fucked – and no, this is not going to be a rant about Endemol TV productions, mad Islamists and their even madder apologists & cheerleaders, nor will I vent or otherwise parade my spleen about corrupt politicians, Health & Safety gurus and greedy bankers, though each of the above have deserved their own place in Hell and, if there were any justice, would be hung and quartered and fed to the chihuahuas come the revolution.
Still, as I said, this is not a rounding up of the usual suspects. No, when I say that we – and what’s left of our civilisation – are well and truly fucked it’s because of the following.
I mean, it’s one thing when kids behave like a particularly nasty subspecies of the yellow, crazy ant, (which, as you already know, of course, is ‘one of the five species of tramp ants, known for invasive behaviour and devastating ecological effects’.)
Kids have always been like that and, on the whole, societies don’t go dodo because of a few hormonally challenged spotted dicks.
It’s when their so-called elders and betters join in that you should seriously think of pulling the plug before history does if for you:
“A cinema which screens classic films for pensioners has warned their elderly customers about their “unacceptable and juvenile” behaviour. Pensioners at the Odeon, in Leicester, have been reprimanded for threatening, pushing, poking, bullying, harassing and intimidating staff, saving seats for friends and queue jumping. Concerns were also raised about customers abusing the complimentary tea and biscuits arrangement.”
‘Abusing the complimentary tea and biscuits arrangement…’
Oh, the shame of it!
Or, as Conrad’s Mr Kurtz would say, while bidding his not so fond adieu to a jungle filled with crazy yellow ants and marauding pensioners alike, “The horror! The horror!”
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October 6th, 2009 at 10:31
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