a dogs life

yesterday on the way home i witnessed a young man kicking the living shit out of his dog.
The dog, chained to a post, was receiving a royal kick in the head from its owner. I had my earphones on, and at first stopped my bicycle because i thought a woman was in distress. Alas it was just a gangster wanna be thug giving his dog (read : Fashion Accessory) a brutal beating. And although at least 10 other people witnessed this, one woman came running down the road to see what noise was going on, stopped dead in her tracks on noticing who (gangster thug) was doing what. This is a shame. I myself was just about to ride off into the sunset forgetting what i had just seen, however after a brief rest the owner again started kicking his dog causing it to howl out in painful gulps. At this stage i approached the man, i didn't know what i was gonna do, i certainly didn't what to get 'too' involved, because like most of the people in London i wasn't about to put my life in danger, its easier to just walk away from those confrontations. Turn a blind eye and carry on with your journey. About 5 meters from the young man I stopped, and he stopped kicking his dog, he looked up daring me to get involved. I shook my head, and said ' your a coward '. He said nothing. I repeated myself, ' your a fucken coward '. At this stage a young kid decided to weigh in, he came up to me and asked me ' whats wrong with you man, what the fuck are you doing here?' And so i cycled away, afraid and shaking. So my spirit is further eroded by London culture. Forget about the beautiful street art on the side of the Tate, and the numerous galleries, fashionable drinking houses laced throughout this city, culturally we are in a state of fucks, bereft of any courage to change the world around us. British urban culture is best viewed on the average street. Shops, malls, take aways, off licences and tescos, we are the people that inhabit these streets. Outside the local chicken joint its not uncommon to see dudes spitting out their chicken bones, just spitting them out onto the pavement, throwing the trash down when the bin is five meters away. Street culture is rough, rowdy and unmannered, it is often violent and bereft of any real consequence. I desperately don't what this to be another whine about youths, what i want is for us to take a look around and see were we live, question how we have created such moral black hole. We have all had a part in it, yes the parents of these kids can be blamed, the kids themselves, however we choose to live like this, we rejoice in the convenience of life in the 21st century but battle to teach values. Shopping or more precisely consuming becomes our cause. Never are we discouraged from buying sh*t we don't need, nor are we enticed to make time for our fellow human beings -even some of our religious institutes preach violence and self righteousness.What exactly are the benefits for a low income family to learn manners, and how exactly do we teach morally good behaviour in the current 'consume all you can be fore you die' culture we live in. Is this a direct result of capitalism, or are we just an evil self-serving species in general.

I'm the same as you. I just wanna get home and put my feet up, i just wanna forget about were i live. I just wanna relax. I just wanna shop at TK Maxx and find a good deal, a further mark down, a sale.
Hope is......... a mansion by the sea.