Britains timid teens need to go to the pub
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked
Author: Neil Davenport
The discussion about young people and alcohol consumption reveals everything that is rotten about the way booze is viewed today. Reducing alcohol consumption to a health issue ignores the role drink has played in human culture throughout the ages. It ignores alcohol’s part in great conversations, nights out with friends, romance, marriage ceremonies, business deals. Booze lowers inhibitions and helps humans get closer. But today, society tends to view people getting close to one another as a problem, a source of multiple risks. Hence younger people’s abstention from boozing goes hand-in-hand with a suspicion of getting closer to others. This is a worrying tendency, and one which is likely to be detrimental to young people. (29/07/14)
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Tuesday 29 July 2014 - 13:14:37