Commentators write glibly about the public's increasing contempt for politicians, and yet what goes unremarked, and is equally damaging, is politicians' growing contempt for us.
A generation of young people has grown up with increasing contempt for copyright and its "get permission before innovating or creating" strictures.
As poverty increases and reliable employment becomes less and less the norm, the dwindling number of workers with any sort of job security or guaranteed pensions (think teachers and other modestly compensated public employees) are being viewed with increasing contempt.
Yet in truth, he outgrew the NOI strategically and intellectually some years before the final breach, and stayed within the organisation, parroting lines for which he felt increasing contempt, out of blind allegiance.
In The Hunger Games, the rich and powerful control the Capitol and dress in grotesque Gaga-ish costumes while the poor live out in the Districts and are treated with increasing contempt.
Jorge Bustamante, a United Nations official in Geneva dealing with migrant rights, has said that this would breach Thailand's human-rights obligations, since workers might also be asylum-seekers.This argument is unlikely to sway a government that shows increasing contempt for refugees.
Beijing's gradually increasing contempt for Europe's human-rights discourse, already apparent during Akmal Shaikh's disgraceful trial, is becoming more pronounced as the west's economic leverage over China has been replaced by China's leverage over the west.
The subhead to William McGurn's column of March 1 refers to the situation as "What happens when a political party disconnects from the economy's productive sector," and McGurn, with uncharacteristically exaggerated rhetoric, refers to the unions' "increasing contempt for the realities of the marketplace and the democratic process".
Dominic Grieve, the attorney general, has revealed that even before he was appointed to his post he was concerned about increasing media contempt for the 1981 contempt of court act.
Yet this is hardly a desirable state of affairs and more worryingly, our current culture in education will encourage increased atomisation, consumerism and contempt for public servants.
