Our new ‘caring’ society is storing up untold trouble

IN castigating the atrocious failings of our quite recent past, the champions of ‘liberated’ New Ireland constantly claim that a more caring and compassionate society has emerged from a darker age.

Yet the culture in which its social mores are sourced is producing constant media reportage of suicides, alcoholism, obesity and serious assaults, often sex-related and increasingly involving adolescents, and in all probability exacerbated by easily accessible pornographic viewing material.

Broken relationships and singleparent families leave young mothers, in particular, and their offspring in vulnerable dependency, and often with unsupported futures. The real extent of the impending introduction of abortion and euthanasia regimes is inevitably obscured in modernistic double-speak.

Do the vociferous proponents of modernism care about the stomachchurning foreboding of the frailer aged, as they fear ‘compassionately’ insisted demise, as is already in vogue in other ‘caring’ European countries?

Do they care about the imminent threat to the lives of the unborn – those of their own direct lineage quite possibly included – and the often noted psychological effects to their mothers in an abortion culture similar to those in Europe, the US, Canada, Japan and the UK?

All are portents of a hidden agony engulfing modern Ireland.

Do the promoters of ‘caring’ and ‘compassionate’ New Ireland care a whit for these growing segments of Irish people who endure long-term as a direct consequence of a permissiveness, masquerading as liberalism, which pervades and taints the culture of modernistic humanism?

Colm Ó Tórna Dublin