Hyper-individualism, Consumerism & Resentment. A dangerous cocktail

The recent spate of knife and gun killings, argued Tony Blair recently, cannot be solely attributed to the effects of poverty but to a dysfunctional gang culture among young black people. This provoked a predictable outcry from black community leaders, but Blair was at least half right that the violence has roots in youth culture - though half wrong in confining it to black youth. The problem is not that young people are, in Blair's words, being brought up with "no rules, no discipline, no proper framework around them", but rather that the framework of rules they live within diverges sharply from that of mainstream civil society.

I wonder if there is a crisis of identity going on but its not just disinfranchised youth that causes concern. Crisis of identity

Law and order is but the bottom rung of this debate.

the way young people wield Cool as protection against the depression that failure in a highly competitive and celebrity-obsessed culture may induce. If you can't win, then refuse to play the game by dissing it as uncool. What we could not have predicted was to what terrible lengths this mechanism might be stretched. Merely refusing to play a particular game - such as succeeding at school, or joining some desirable social set - is no longer sufficient. Now you need to stop others playing too, perhaps by knifing them in a street fight, or by taking a 9mm Glock automatic on to the university campus.

What a sad indictment

Via Immoral support

And the book Cool Rules

So you wonder why young lives cast aside in country life which has no forseeable purpose, or, urban life that sucks you in, are lost to those parents that love and want to nuture them.

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