A2 Media: Eden Lake - further reading

Click on the links below for a collection of articles on the impact of Eden Lake, the 'demonisation' of youth and the society which is represented - all taken from the excellent 'Collective Identity' blog.


http://collectiveidentity.posterous.com/eden-lake

http://collectiveidentity.posterous.com/demonisation-of-youth-past-and-present

http://collectiveidentity.posterous.com/hoodies-cinemas-new-bogeyman

One quote, in particular, is worth highlighting here from the second link:
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
Recent? No - this was written in approximately 345 B.C (that's nearly 2500 years ago), by the Greek philosopher, Plato. So perhaps the actions of the youths in Eden Lake are not so shocking, after all?