Spacehamster’s Blog

I had a perfect example this morning of how badly educated some young people are nowadays.

Good grief - young people - I’m only in my mid-thirties and I’m already using that term.

I was walking down Liverpool St on my way to work, when I my path was blocked by two young drunk men staggering out of the local pub.

Them: “Hey, you wanna trade Pokemon cards?”
Me: “Won’t work on me mate, born here.”
Them: “Bastard - go back to your own country.”

It just shows how badly the education system has degenerated over the past 10 years - an example of the neglect of both State and Federal Governments. Perhaps if they’d put more funding into hiring more teachers instead of waging a class war and giving out tax bribes - we would’ve gotten better educated and more civilized students graduating from our schools. Rather than the kind of uneducated louts that almost mugged me on the way to work.

This story caught me a little short. Why would a man with everything a person could ever want - family and wealth - want to end it all? If he’d lost everything, he could’ve started all over again. Perhaps its a psychosis that only happens to men of a certain generation. They’ve spent years of singleminded hardwork and determination getting to where they are, but they don’t have the mental and emotional flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances. Something which younger generations have to cope with on an almost daily basis.

It’s just too damned bad when that self-control snaps, and lives are lost.