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Metallica were rubbish. Mind you, they’ve been shit for a good twenty years now. Wankers.
Oliver Reed.
@Baldy wrote:
…an attitude of shocking self-centredness and self-entitlement that places import on technological trivialities over human relationships. This, in turn, diminishes our society.
@Baldy wrote:
…most of us wish to do some good.
Which is it to be? It seem difficult to have it both ways. I don’t think modern consumerist society is in any such malaise. This all just seems a flowery version of ‘The Youth of Today…’ or ‘When I Were a Lad…’. I think people, in general, are just the same mixture of ill-tempered, good natured, self centred, spiritual, cultural and charitable that they’ve always been. What era is being held up as greater than our current one in this respect?
And where is the evidence for this bizarre assertion about a new prefence for gadgets over people? Who here would honestly exchange their love or even their friendship for the lastest Nokia phone or LG telly? Surely yourself and Esmeralda are proof that the arts and the finer aspects of life are just as vital now as ever they were. How many charitable fun runners and baked bean sitters are there for every mugger? How many people express their spirituality through the New Age or revival Paganism.
That’s not to say everything is perfect, obviously, but there is nothing new under the sun. Go through old newspaper reports and the scum are still there; drunk sailors throwing crying babies into fires because they couldn’t keep them quiet, stabbings in pubs (ask Marlowe), neglected old folk and animals, football hooliganism, corrupt and venal politicians, war, famine, injustice – it’s all there.
Humanity has never been pretty to behold.
I can’t stand the trout. Still, you wouldn’t wish that sort of thing on her.
I’d say a fair proportion of his posts are argumentative and nasty. Pete and his sickly clique seem to operate under the one rule for themselves and apply another for everyone else.
What a lot of old rot. People are not existentially bankrupt because they can use their phone as a Walkman.
And I’m not reaching out to you, either, Baldy.
Are you sure? You don’t fancy one last try at whipping up some hysterical vilification?
I do. Fantastic examples of humanity, I reckon. Each and everyone of them. The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and all that.
Always nice to let a chap know what’s so objectionable, surely. How can I moderate my behaviour in future if not?
