I do not know if you saw it, but at the Vanity Fair party after the Oscars this week there was a photo taken of a woman wearing a pretty floral dress who was obviously sat by my namesake aka Bond. In true 007 style, Daniel Craig leans forward and stares into the lens. Meanwhile the girl leans back behind him and makes a gun gesture with her hand and pulls a face implying she is hard aka Bond. It is really funny and cracked me up.
However, only a matter of a week or so ago, an arse did a similar thing behind David Cameron when he was visiting troubled housing estates in Bristol.
Same type of action and meaning meant (as in gun gesture), but delivered by two different people and creating completely different responses!
The teenager went on to brag about how he took drugs and was able to get real guns etc. He made a point of telling the paper interviewing him that he did not tell his family and it was supposed to be a secret!! Hello! He was later arrested and spent two days in custody over possessing a small amount of cannabis. It fills me with anger and dread knowing this is the brain power of certain people and that they have no drive or ambition for any positive change on their lives or the society they live in and yet the judge expressed concern for the way he had been treated and kept in custody!
The current coverage of what causes this type of behaviour and attitude comes around again and what will be done. Column inches and discussion (like this) but no real change. Meanwhile we have more and more people like the bloke above thinking it is OK to behave like they do.
Whilst at university I put the media on trial as being the leading influence in violence and crime in society. Not only does it expose the 'haves' and 'have nots' gap, but also normalises so much which is not normal.
Mmmm! Comments welcome.
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