Sunday, 20 December 2009

Remember How Our Country Used To Be?

Courtesy of Goodnight Vienna on Calling England, which I repost as the words bear repetition.

Green Islands (1954)

It's sobering to consider the change of pace and the degradation of some aspects of society wreaked in just fifty-five years. Nowadays the voice-over wouldn't do at all - far too sexist, m'dear. There were no 'security guards' in high-viz jackets confiscating parents' cameras or demanding to see CRB checks and no-one threatening to arrest the man feeding the ducks on the grounds that he was littering (yes; it happened). There's been a collective, national, loss of innocence; progress is essential and wonderful but not at the expense of a country's heart and soul - there are things we can still learn from the past.


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2 comments:

  1. subrosa20 December 2009 at 17:55

    WfW, that was when the words trust, embarassment and shame were part of our society. Now the latter two seldom exist as people feel 'entitlement' regardless and trust is a word which has been severely diluted.

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  2. James Higham20 December 2009 at 18:34

    There's been a collective, national, loss of innocence.

    There certainly has been and it manifests itself badly.

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