Bringing up children - Addenda

December 1959 The youth problem The MESSENGER of LIGHT ARGUN had this to say to this theme: Rowdies have always existed. But gangs of youths have come into being after the last war that do not just constitute a terrible nuisance, they have actually become a danger to the rest of mankind. Sharp criticism does not help here. All condemnations of their behaviourism only make the situation even worse. • The blame isn’t just to be found with these adolescents, but with adults too. Mercenary industries bear the main blame for this maldevelopment. It supports the mischief gangs get up to in an unscrupulous way. The USA started to uniform these rowdies. When it came to dealing with these youths, democracy was falsely applied and one was too generous – they therefore enjoyed the kind of freedom that people should have to work for . They were generously conceded these freedoms. These rowdies exploited democracy to a degree where it all turned into gangs of gangsters of terrible proportions – right up to murdering people. So-called students are also fully engaged here. The dignity of students is a thing of the past. The majority of students these days consist of pseudo-students, namely braggarts who know not how to do things, but like to catch the average citizen’s eyes through the way they dress and style their hair, because they are empty inside and discontented . The state grants them help and this is immediately abused by them. These so-called students, who besmirch and ridicule academic dignity, join the yobbos, that is to say, join uniformed gangs that loaf around in stinking, dirty jeans and oilcloth or leather jackets, trying to imitate cowboys or wild car racers. Student gangs and yobbos are an established, negative problem mankind is faced with . This is not a sign of the times one simply has to accept, because one cannot prevent it. If industries would find the will to no longer support these gangs , this dangerous nonsense would immediately come to a stop. Industry however supplies them with proper jungle music , which they carry under their arms or hang around their necks and which possesses them. They don’t have to show regard to what they wear. They don’t have to behave civilized and well behaved. Their overall appearance does not demand social considerations or etiquette. They can shadow-box and wallow in dirt like pigs, because they are dressed accordingly. Their pockets are filled with knives and knuckledusters. The images they portrait are those of immoral hoodlums or actors in bloody crime shows. They feel strong within their gangs, but are in fact abysmally gutless when they have to rely on themselves – to lazy to learn anything at all. Industries, in their craving for money , motorised them. The devil then took hold of them and instilled the sense of speed in them. These rowdies rob and thrash around themselves in order to motorise themselves. Deferred payment methods support this motorised gangster culture in a most generous fashion. I warn you about this development! Industries may not support these gangs by producing such clothing specifically designed for criminals. This warning is directed at the whole world. The state must intervene and block all such deliveries. One should supply these people with decent suits that do not offer them the opportunity to behave like the scum of the Earth. When they wear these suits, one will have to take them