The Anonymous Widower

I was Sixteen Once

I’m 64 next week, but all of the mindless violence of the last few days rings a bell in my mind.

I have a feeling that life has now become so constrained for the average male youth, that we are now getting the problems we are seeing on the streets.

In some ways it was a bit like that in the early sixties.  We didn’t get the violence, but then of course we had Mods and Rockers.  I didn’t get involved one way or other, as I had other things to do and I didn’t have a motorcyle licence.

But just as then, the Police and politicians didn’t have a clue. They don’t now!

In the seventies and eighties, it was all about football violence.

So is the cause of the last three days, just an outlet for testosterone. I bet one of these rioters goes on to in twenty years or so, to be a leader of a main political party or to run a large company like Tesco.

The problem is to channel this testosterone and the anger that goes with it!

August 8, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | News | London