Oxford Street is Closed

There is also a tendency to look back through rose tinted glasses. Many aspects of society may be worse now but I am sure many are also better. Is there net gain? I don't know I can't be arsed to go to through the massive task of finding that out but it is easy to get carried away blaming today and saying yeaster year was so much better.

Teenagers have always been little shits. People have always wanted something for nothing. I am sure there is a problem now but it's real size and perceived size are no doubt different.

I totally agree with this. I was a kid in Edinburgh in the late 70's early 80's and knife culture was very much alive and well. Stanley knives coming out all over the place. Kids where always beating up/stabbing each other or worse. I remember an incident when i was a kid of some youths putting a kid down a hole in the road that was part of some road works and pouring concrete on top of him...thats fuckin crazy. In the 80's and early 90's the football casual scene in edinburgh was out of control...you couldn't get on a bus without gangs of about 15-20 teenagers 'taxing' your shit off you. If you were wearing nice trainers or a nice jacket you wouldn't be getting off the bus with them on. This was when you could still smoke on buses as well so you'd probably have 10 fags stubbed out on you while they were at it. So for me living in london now just seems fairly normal..if slightly less violent.
the major change ive noticed is the switch to youths attacking adults. These kids clearly dont have any respect for adults/authority...prob starting with their parents. I guess they figure well if I can walk over my parents I can walk over everyone else.
When I was young..kids would fight kids but there was a line between kids and adults that was never crossed.