Intellectual Pride – The scourge of the age.
I’ve just been watching a woman reviewing the papers on television. She worked for a ‘think tank’. She had a view on everything that was asked of her but I detected more interest from her on global issues. And it got me to thinking, would she have been a happier person had she lived say ninety years ago? I think she would have been.
Say in her 1930’s head her mind would have been full of current ‘cares’ not current affairs. Focused on her family and friends.. but her 2019 mind is broad and can take in a world view. Her mind back then would have had a narrower view, but her focus would have been on her kith and kin and friends, local community….but that what’s still important now today, isn’t it? That’s all that matters really? Her 2019 self seems more interested in the world’s problems than local problems. (When asked about how many bathrooms one house should have she seemed uninterested.)
I surmise that she would have been a happier woman back then. Her brain not filled with ‘concerns’ about climate or the economy or ‘social issues’. We live in a ‘newspaper-Internet-flattered’ age. We are puffed up with what we know and how much we know. And life passes us by while we are reading or watching news and formulating our ‘views’. We are literally wasting our time. Our heads filled with ‘world issues’, ‘global concerns’ about which we can do very little.
And all the time life is passing…
Nominated by Miles Plastic



