Lessons from History

That’s right, the behaviour of people today’s appalling. We had another history lesson yesterday as part of the Citizenship Training Scheme—world history to show our multicultural humanity, and British to give us a shared identity. It was very interesting, the whole incredible history of the degeneration of manners. They even had a Society for the Promotion of Good Manners as far back as the eighteenth century. There’s Indus Valley scripts—that’s 20000 years ago!—telling stories about how bad the youths had got. So that explains the frightful conditions we’ve got today. And here at last after all those years they’re doing something about it. The world will be so much happier when everyone’s polite and respects each other. And maybe we’ll even respect ourselves.