Lots of older people are just grumpy old men or grumpy old women. Some though are just bemused by the changes which have taken place in just a short space of fifty years. Are we still living in the same world as we were then, it is so different that some of us suspect we have been hijacked by aliens.
Is science fiction fact? Are the teenagers of today people in the same way as we were when we were young or are they from a different planet? Or even a different solar system? They don't have pointed ears but there is multi coloured spiky hair, strange patterns on their skins, all kinds of of hardware dangling from their ears or noses,short haired girls and long haired boys with skinny legs with toes that point towards each other instead of straight forward.
Is science fiction fact? Are the teenagers of today people in the same way as we were when we were young or are they from a different planet? Or even a different solar system? They don't have pointed ears but there is multi coloured spiky hair, strange patterns on their skins, all kinds of of hardware dangling from their ears or noses,short haired girls and long haired boys with skinny legs with toes that point towards each other instead of straight forward.
There is rampant puberty from the age of ten but young people are "kids" until they are 21 or more.
But then suddenly parliament is full of 30 something's running the country, most of whom have never had a proper job.
Technological change is normal over such a time span and because this has happened gradually most people accept the changes and adapt. But there are still changes forced onto the population which many older people do not want. Who decided that "music" was compulsory in shopping centres, even in the toilets? And why does 90 per cent of the photos on FB contain a tongue? Who changed fast bowlers on the cricket pitch to quick? Why is text speak everywhere and not just in texts? Who is able to keep up with all those abbeviations?
There are all these improvements but still no cure for the common cold. No cures for cancers either that work for ever sufferer. More money spent on subsidies for grouse shooting than on flood defences. A National Health Service which is National only in name. Charities which spend more of the money collected in paying CEOs and administration than on the job they were created for..
Anthony Newley surely could not have realised how much his song would resonate in the future.
There are all these improvements but still no cure for the common cold. No cures for cancers either that work for ever sufferer. More money spent on subsidies for grouse shooting than on flood defences. A National Health Service which is National only in name. Charities which spend more of the money collected in paying CEOs and administration than on the job they were created for..
Anthony Newley surely could not have realised how much his song would resonate in the future.
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