Ms Macbeth Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 (edited) As a young child I read Kingsley's Water Babies. I've never forgotten 'Mrs Do As You Would Be Done By'. Not a bad tenet to live life by. Like I1l23 we lived in a deprived area in the early 70s when we first moved to South Yorkshire. With young children, we realised if we wanted to improve their situation, we both needed to work. No one was looking out for us, except us. Edited June 10, 2018 by Ms Macbeth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrystottle Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 In general I have found that the theory you believe in often gets disproved by real life. That your views on life are shaped by your experiences of it, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Cid Posted June 10, 2018 Author Share Posted June 10, 2018 In general I have found that the theory you believe in often gets disproved by real life. That your views on life are shaped by your experiences of it, I suppose. A very sceptical view! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzijlstra Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 I grew up in relative poverty, had to switch towns in year one of secondary school and had to, quite literally, fight to establish myself in a more rural community then where I was before. I am a liberal through and through, Shaped by the sense that no one else is going to do it for you. If you want something you have to work at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francypants Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 What has formed my views ? LIFE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickey finn Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 being a decent person mostly ^This^ in a nutshell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert smith Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 Being a member of the adult section of Manor library age 11 in 1953. This introduced me to the books that formed my life ,books by George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Robert Tressell, D.H Lawrence. All my heroes who wrote life as lived by working people at that time and still the way many still live today Worldwide. Then experiencing the way the working classes have been shafted by all parties in power inc so called new labour under Blair and his cohorts some from our own area. Some of our citizens have now been relegated to the outskirts of our society and are called reckless and idle ,while the truth is that they are reaping the failure of their so called leaders to protect them from the loss of traditional industries ,industries that guaranteed a full working life instead of the situation they now find themselves in with agency and zero hour contracts . All the great authors wrote about these situations around one hundred years ago and I bet that they never envisaged that today the situation would still be similar for some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padders Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 Being a member of the adult section of Manor library age 11 in 1953. This introduced me to the books that formed my life ,books by George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Robert Tressell, D.H Lawrence. All my heroes who wrote life as lived by working people at that time and still the way many still live today Worldwide. Then experiencing the way the working classes have been shafted by all parties in power inc so called new labour under Blair and his cohorts some from our own area. Some of our citizens have now been relegated to the outskirts of our society and are called reckless and idle ,while the truth is that they are reaping the failure of their so called leaders to protect them from the loss of traditional industries ,industries that guaranteed a full working life instead of the situation they now find themselves in with agency and zero hour contracts . All the great authors wrote about these situations around one hundred years ago and I bet that they never envisaged that today the situation would still be similar for some. The ragged trousered philanthropist, albert, what a read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlittle Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 The 'socialisation process' is the way we all come to adopt acceptable behavioural norms and it encompasses so much more than what we read or watch. It includes our family, work and many life circumstances and group influences. I am unable to decide which has been most significant in determining my own values and beliefs but have come to see that it is, or should be, also a teaching process by which we can adjust and improve our behaviours in any field by constant rationalisation, new understanding, realisation and example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert smith Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 The ragged trousered philanthropist, albert, what a read. I read it again and again ,it still makes me roor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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