Responsible use of pyrotechnics (Germany, 1933)
"The youth of today love luxury, have bad manners and no respect for authority. They contradict their parents, cross their legs and tyrannize their teachers. "
(Socrates, 470-399 BC.)
And because it makes wide since the mid / late 90s, also in German football stadiums a veritable youth culture, it suggests the rejection and contempt towards the part of the ancestors. This is completely independent of whether they are politicians, where they have their own youth all over Europe to rubble and ashes, instead of flares to uphold or to the 68s generation, who have thrown at that time supposedly the one or other paving stone against the system of pigs should. Of course there are also within the curves sometimes vehement criticism of the ancients, who remember the golden 80s when German stadiums have not been disturbed by "monotone continuous chanting" teenager, but there dextrorotatory Hools grunting together with a mustache makers racist nonsense and 3-4 times per game favorites such as "Put the Bavarian lederhosen from the" intoned.
"The world is going through hard times. The young people of today think of nothing else than to yourself you have no respect for their parents or older. They are impatient and hotheaded. They talk as if they knew everything, and what we believe to be wise, they regard as folly. "
(Peter Monk, 1274)
It is now heard but the nature of a youth movement that they did not ask for permission, but to have their own ideals, is cordoned off with their own forms of expression and creates its own space and defense. And that it offends, across borders and from the "other" is not understood. Groups of young people who subject themselves to a priori the values of the majority of companies are no youth culture, but the young Union. These things may well look the older generations, who may find just the right course, as the world has set itself. However, it is equally true that "unorthodox" behavior of young people by no means signifies the end of the West, but on the contrary, the only completely normal examination of the existing lead to something like social development. That such is not free of conflict and, in principle associated with the exploration of a certain margin of applicable norms is no groundbreaking new observation.
"It has been the perception that the school children formerly known given decency and moral behavior ... more and more disappear."
(Government Report, 1852)
And, oh horror, this unfortunately includes excesses and exaggerations. Without paving stones and Molotov cocktails against the swine system, there would be no abandonment of nuclear power, no real de-Nazification of universities and government agencies, no bio-and eco-labeled on food packaging, no labeling requirement for chemical additives and the media landscape would still be a lot more conformist. It must be a youth culture wear a primarily political claim to be incurring the hatred of the elderly. It is sufficient if it passes through their inherent right to dress differently, listen to different music and to create their own language. Completely indifferent to whether it comes to their hair to draw Iroquois, "riveting pants" to wear with holes or listen to mostly "Hottentot music" with "electric guitars". There is always something to complain against long-haired, lazy hippies in sachets noise as well as against "beatniks" and "mods", "Skins" punks "or" rocker ". Or even earlier against "reformists", "Protestant" or libertarians. And has not always been present to consider such a culture to differentiate and may weigh the positive and negative aspects, but there were expressions of fashion for simplicity taken to defame us. To be vilified as a youth culture, it is enough if you consume other drugs than their predecessors, the music is now desolate, for the grandparents "devil" was and Florian Silbereisen is not that great.
"Is it really true that we all muck that comes from the West, need to copy now? I think, comrades, with the monotony of the Je-Je-Je, and how all this is, indeed, one should call it quits. "
( Walter Ulbricht )
Now you can criticize from the lofty perch of old experience, of course, have a youth culture. It can and has to question even their inherent potential for violence, we can discuss how the nuisance emanating from it must be tolerated by society and a society which rooms to provide their children have less soft form. One may even find anything interesting and infantile, what do the young people there so - entirely legitimate that older Jugendlichenkram not want to give. What is stupid, however, are general convictions of the younger generation just because they follow a Code, which can not (more) understands more. Because it is an essential part of youth culture attractive, that one does not understand. One should not understand it, too, widespread acceptance is the end of any youth culture that has its appeal even now just from the definition of active is already there. From conflict over existing conditions against father figures, teachers and other representatives of the prevailing circumstances, young people form ever since. And if puke fully train compartments, sing silly songs and convey by beer into a coma already a cause for state repression, then the draft would have been a few decades must be dismantled before.
"The different ages of the people hold each other for different races: old have usually forgotten that they were young, or they forget that they are old, young and never realize that they can grow old."
(Kurt Tucholsky, Man)
The situation is completely absurd, but if the public discourse of politics, media and police officials are at the moment as a mechanism involves young people, but against the previously produced in unison, was that they had no youth culture. But that it is a hedonistic, indifferent, politikverdrossene consumers are Horde without ideals and goals, into the lives of the day and whose leisure time from the downloading of ring tones and the consumption of the wealth created by the parents. Suddenly a youth culture, prepared for weeks creative and beautiful choreography, objectively moves breathtaking Bengaloaktionen, time, money and passion put into a hobby, donations for needy collects and provides support for joint projects and the community benefit, which self-determined "ideal" and "values" subjects and make the effort to design their own rules, hierarchies and symbols. This generation, which has "never taken a book in his hand" is well known, receives with great enthusiasm, a highly critical book about their youth culture, and organizes lectures, attended by some hundreds of listeners who paid for their entrance to meet up with their own Cultural deal. The same generation that dozens of forums and umbrella organizations founds to the dialog (!) With the public authorities to explore legal ways to be able to live out their culture. The tens of thousands of blogs and fanzines each season filled with pages to talk about themselves. The Fandemos and conferences organized and can be for months at round tables and make fun nevertheless still willing to talk shows. The unconscious, also insisting on their freedom to be able to commit their own errors and exaggerations.
"... If the boy ... into adolescence occurs, it has also, because this age is coming to light just as evil, the reins of discipline necessary ..."
(Vincent of Beauvais, 1250)
All this is hidden to the millennia-old conflict between generations lam into the photographs. There are "so-called" fans who have "nothing to do with football," the "only party itself," and we "remove from the stadiums" have. Because there are "violent anarchists" below. And "violent anarchists" has always been an explanation for youth movements. Well, there are violent anarchists. Even among ultras. So you have to deal, and you have to fight it. Therefore we need no "special laws", "database", "lifelong bans pubs" and "tougher measures", but it is sufficient for the consistent application of existing law. If someone bangs his BMW with 180 through the construction site, then his driver's license is revoked. Under no circumstances should the punishment be extended to all BMW drivers who hold a majority largely to existing traffic laws. And violent physical attacks are rightly banned in Germany, then you must make the effort to identify and condemn by case basis. The law gives her well, which has a whole set of laws and ways to enforce them. Even if that makes more effort to provide as much of the youth under general suspicion, to criminalize and demonize the leading media. Fortunately, the guilt by association in Germany in 1945 nullified henceforth focus on the perpetrators.
"Jazz, the synthesis of march and salon music is wrong, the one destroyed it with a subjective productive, destructive and objectifying power by destroying society."
(Theodor W. Adorno on Jazz)
Has the world been broken in youth cultures? Lacking and is probably also the ultra culture neither dissolve nor the football operation to stop the West. It is, like any serious previous youth culture live out their niche and then merge comfortably in the mainstream and cease to be a youth culture. And they will - all left their traces and forms of expression - in a milder and less radical form. It is right and necessary to their survival that they will be rejected by the "institutions" or even other fans and criticized. Only then they will remain attractive to young people and creating this wonderful feeling of togetherness that only know people who have ever participated in a youth culture. But is undemocratic deeply, when the political system requires special legislation to collectively against an extremely diverse youth movement to proceed, the lowest common denominator is hanged by the neck scarf. Equally undemocratic, if the media landscape, this collective fear herbeifabuliert images , rather than just deal critically with repressive measures.
"Our young people are run down and disorderly. The young people no longer listen to their parents. The end of the world is near. "
(Cuneiform text from Ur, Chaldea, around 2000 BC)
It's not just when journalists whose job it should be to explain to this has been, why who did what and when, from behind their mitliefern Schnittchentürmen same preconceived notions, instead of having ever spoken to the person concerned only. And who can bludgeon together a group of young people ever prophylaxis and no specific reason at the station, which does not protect the values of our free democratic basic order, but he beat one of them up. Completely independent of whether I use this youth culture and its manifestations solidarisiere now or not does not matter whether I think this is now well and roundly reject. A certain degree of tolerance and freedom belongs to the definition of democracy, for everything else there are rules and laws. Against perpetrators, not against youth movement with thousands of members. Ultras like any other youth movements also are perceived as thoroughly disturbing and childish to be childish and disturbing is just the prerogative of youth. But, fortunately, gone are the days where everything equally disturbing and out of the stadium / land must refer and also in dealing with this latest youth culture a little more composure and tolerance would do quite well as the rest of society quite well. In other words, violent offenders can be locked away like, "potentially violent" I think we are pretty much all been schonmal. Except, of course, the Youth Union.
"For many, the situation as threatening dar. I still remember a game that I attended with my then small son. Left and right next to us and it popped my boy was curled up and full of fear because, instead of having fun on the beautiful game of football. As Home Secretary I am also concerned about the welfare of police officers who have to work around the stadiums and on trains for safety. "
(Interior Minister Hans Peter Friedrich in "Super-Illu")
With thanks to http://www.little-idiot.de/teambuilding/JugendvonHeute.pdf beautiful for many quotes!
