Unmasking of the British export Euro-Sentimentality for its addiction to toxic sentiment which is used to undermine society, to erode our personal sense of responsibility as citizens for our actions, to create a numbing cocoon around harsh, unpalatable realities. The first of these is that Britain is the worst country of twenty-one advanced countries in which to be a child. This wretched state of affairs is not only detrimental for those experiencing it themselves, but for those experiencing British children. The British are a nation that fears its own children. Threats to teachers by their pupils - one third of all teachers have been physically attacked and a substantial number have also been on the receiving end of added aggression by parents - is mirrored in health care, where paediatricians have been the objects of attempted assault. Doctors are afraid to refuse their patients demands for sick notes for fear of a violent reaction: A relatively small amount of violence is sufficient to produce a large effect. The cult of sentimentality lies at the root of all this. Human beings are inherently good - so goes the philosophy - rendering discipline unnecessary and bad. If someone eventually turns to crime, the sentimentalist believes, he must be the victim of an environment that has let him down. Likewise, children are regarded by sentimentalists, as not merely innocent and good but of being the possessors of an intelligent curiosity, natural talent, vivid imagination, desire to learn and an ability to find things out for themselves. This romanticised notion has produced generations of British children who cannot adequately read, write, or do simple calculations - and this despite a palpable increase in expenditure per capita on pupils education. Intellectuals, with their woolly tendentious thinking, are partly responsible - the betes-noir of those in society who value common sense, allied to the virtues of discipline and restraint. Intellectuals, fail to recognise the plain truth that Great Britain … is now sinking, in a … swamp of sentimentality whose aesthetic, intellectual and moral correlates are dishonesty, vulgarity and barbarity. One of the outcomes is that a childish and uncontrolled emotionality has become a growing feature of our national life and character. Nowhere is this more evident than in respect to the Cult of Feeling, which peaked with the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and surged once more in the tragic aftermath of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Sentimentality demanded a show of gratuitous public grief, and visible shock. Those who failed to wallow sufficiently (namely the Queen, who did not properly mourn in public, and Kate McCann, who failed to shed tears on television), were deemed by the arbiters of sentiment, to rightly deserve denigration. The codependent rants of Jeremy Kyle, the worship of the cult of Oprah Winfrey (Americas television queen of emotional incontinence). Sentimentality, is the expression of emotion without an acknowledgement that judgement should enter into how we should react to what we see and hear … (it) is therefore childish …and reductive of our humanity. X factor the Voice cause the celebration of cheap celebrity.Allowing the cult of toxic celebrity to manufacture new heros and Gods, increasing the prevalence of navel gazing soaps on television that sublimate a drugged materialistic society.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 10:22:45 +0000
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