I remember the first time I heard the phrase “we now have a lost generation of feral impoverished children and we should be ashamed”. An interview on Radio Scotland.
Not too long ago.
This was about the society of parts of Scotland. Stated by a senior churchman.
The sentence itself is chilling enough – its implications, its accusations, its accountabilities and it’s, I guess, possibilities.
I can’t forget the bally thing.
I’m also aware it started, for me, antennae activity that spotted the term feral in a dozen different places. Printed and visual and audio media, almost it felt, eventually, reaching a level that many descriptors do of being audibly invisible!! Through overuse.
This is in my country. And it’s not rare. That’s sore.
I recall a documentary this year where the word “hopeless /ness” was used 22 times in two interviews with unemployed adults. That was sore too. Still is, even in my comfy place.
Recently the antennae thing has spotted another, not new, condition.
Despair.
An experienced practitioner stated in a conference that more and more citizens are slipping into despair.
Now I can’t stop hearing it regularly and seeing it in all settings.
True, accurate or not, why didn’t I see this and others before?
