"Enough doing, TALK"
God I'm grumpy today. When looking at the wall of inspirational post-it notes pictured on this Guardian article ("enough talk, DO", "Help people make things better", "Fixing things", etc), all I want to do is stick a few of my own up:
- Most people don't care
- Many people are stupid
- Doing without talking first is generally dangerous
Coffee needed.
Tags: grumpiness, harsh realities, post-it notes
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:38 am
People like to have an opinion. Whose opinion it is is less important
Sincerity is seen as a sufficient substitute for conviction and research
Bill Turnbull is a twat
In other news, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is a particular bugbear of mine which suggests that everyone else would like to be treated in the same way as I do. This is clearly bollocks.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
You're quite right about the sincerity thing. Similarly, I'd like to erect a giant statue somewhere prominent saying something to the effect of "the merits of loyalty depend entirely on the merits of what you are loyal to" - the idea that patriotism (surely the most dubious form of loyalty) is an unqualified virtue always strikes me as particularly inane.