If you put your mind to it
You can do anything you want
If only I had just one mind.
As I was showering this morning (yes, I’m chuffed for me too) I was thinking about vitriol. The kind that seems to be endemic in society currently. Perhaps the total hasn’t changed in the last fifty years, maybe now we just see more of it because we are glued to our phones.
There seems to be a lot of anger out there. People are not ‘getting what they want’ or ‘feel they deserve’, typically they point at others who do have it and complain about the disparity. They, at least to me, seem to fall into one of two camps.
If the ‘other’ has something intrinsic, beauty, intelligence, wit, athletic ability, the refrain from the disgruntled is that either those things don’t or shouldn’t matter, or that the achievements of the ‘other’ are solely due to that intrinsic quality and therefore their achievements are ‘less than’.
The second camp is that their inability to get ‘what they want / deserve’ is due to one or more of the current ism’s. Didn’t get the job / promotion / pay rise? Sexism. Refused a loan / mortgage / tenant application? Racism. Didn’t get picked for the game? Ableism. Not allowed in the toilet / shower / changing room? Transgenderism.
