Since the kids are so different than everyone else in the family, there is a debate in the rest of our family; nature nurture and of course being a bunch of white liberals everybody really believes that it is nature but pretends they think its nurture — though the parents have put millions of dollars into these kids.

Now, I actually think it is nurture, not that they haven’t gone to the finest schools and all that, its just the suburban white environment the parents thought they were raising their kids in is intensely social environment with expectations and shame. The pan-racial disfunction of the current generation of kids have no shame at all, none. No kid today is embarrassed to call his mom and idiot, especially if his mom is indeed a white liberal idiot. The peer groups are stronger than ever — add facebook so the suburban NY disfunction hooks up with rural alabama with the suburbs of paris instantly — a whole bunch of clockwork orange wanna be ingrates linked globally.

Anyways being in Williamsburg and summer I believe, the place was filled with Hassids. No big deal. They Populate the area, and I can see how they get all uppy with the gentrification, but at the same time, they are making hand over fist in money with sales of properties, so I dont feel too bad.. blablabla

So Im sitting there, staring at the flies fucking in front of me because the post office system is about as inefficient as having monkeys typing shakespeare, when I look over I see this hassid cut in line. All of a sudden this gentleman probably 55 or so maybe older, says “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING CUTTING IN LINE! WE’VE ALL HAD TO WAIT! GET IN THE BACK!! YOURE HASSIDIC JEWS, YOURE SUPPOSED TO BE PIOUS PEOPLE!”

At that point I just cracked up because no one in New York is even close to pious, I dont care who the fuck you are. You’re as Egocentric as they come, and if you’re not, then you leave.

So thats my story. On the one hand Im glad people raise their voice, PC or UN PC as it may be. In some eyes youll be an asshole, may even be called racist, but who ever thinks that may just be confusing what being racist really means.

NYC used to be a place where normal people stood up for each other when there was someone disruptive. Whites would back up blacks, vice versa, etc. People knew that the crowd had their backs if they stepped up and enforced the social norm against some teenager with a chemical imbalance.

But now, everyone is too afraid to get sued for 10M for beating up some punk. They don’t want to see Sharpton and his real trump card – attorney Sanford Rubenstein – on a stoop talking about how you are the reason there is no justice in the world.

BN good job explaining the effect of the problem – but the cause is much simpler than you realize. Its not a fear of confronting a broke ass scumbag that’s changed, it’s fear that if you step in, you may end up a broke ass scumbag.