Spare the Rod …

By Max Musson:

Some people understandably say, “Spare the rod and spoil the child”, but the current malaise experienced by many parents in the guidance, motivation and disciplining of their children goes much deeper than that.

Firstly, our entire national culture has been debased to point whereby many of our people can no longer describe in any coherent way what Britishness is. Our religious beliefs too have been denigrated and ridiculed until our children no longer have faith and our politics have been rendered corrupt and false to such an extent that all belief in a collective ‘us’ has all too often almost disappeared.

Our children are encouraged through the flawed schooling that we provide and through the permissive, ersatz, ‘pop music, Coca Cola and condoms culture’ that is served up by our mass media to view themselves as ‘atomised individuals’ for whom immediate self-gratification and the ruthless pursuit of personal fame and obscene wealth at any cost are the highest of aspirations.

For young people who have no idea where they have come from, no idea why they are here and no idea where they are going, the idea of protecting the fabric of society has no meaning. Furthermore, the ideas of caring for let alone respecting their elders and those among whom they live are also completely alien and they view each other as mere objects to be used in their quest for their next fix, their next buzz, their next adrenaline rush – for their immediate sexual gratification, whatever the cost to those around them.

When you teach youngsters that they should not take pride in the history of their people, that their customs and traditions are just out-dated concepts, that they have no greater right to inhabit the land of their forebears than a foreigner, and when you teach them that they are unique ‘individuals’ who have no duty to the past, or the future, or to the seemingly random assemblage of people living around them, then you create young people who are not stakeholders in our society and for whom the rule of law is just so many old people unreasonably imposing their will upon ‘the kids’.

To such a disaffected teenager, what does it matter if they maim or kill that rival youth from the next estate – he was just a lump of meat they had to tread on in their scramble to get to the top of the ant heap.

The answer does not lie in liberalism, it requires us to teach our children that they are part of something bigger and that they are part of a group with defining characteristics that they can identify with. That they are but a single ‘link’ in an uninterupted chain of life extending back to the ‘beginning of time’, and extending forward into infinity.

We must teach our children that as individuals their lives are but a fleeting glimmer of light in the vast expanses of time and space and that they as individuals only acquire value, importance or meaning through their service to their people and they only acquire lasting ‘fame’ and physical immortality by securing and ensuring the existence of future generations of our kind.

When our children again feel that they belong, that they share communal ownership of the fabric of our society and share a common destiny with their folk, then and only then, will youth crime rates reduce and our young begin to realise their full potential.

By Max Musson © 2013

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