She said to me: You are very angry. I said to her: I am very happy despite my shame at being human. And I think it is better to be angry and eristic than smug or (worse still) optimistic.
A woman of my acquaintance who is a brainwashed worker in the Care Industry (i.e. a nurse) - the sort of sub-Christian person who sees anger as merely negative, and people like me as stroppy and possibly destructive because I am not 'constructive' (i.e. building whole edifices on wobbly 'humanist' concepts such as All Human Life is Worth Saving At All Times.
With whom was this conversation?!!!
ReplyDeleteA woman of my acquaintance who is a brainwashed worker in the Care Industry (i.e. a nurse) - the sort of sub-Christian person who sees anger as merely negative, and people like me as stroppy and possibly destructive because I am not 'constructive' (i.e. building whole edifices on wobbly 'humanist' concepts such as All Human Life is Worth Saving At All Times.
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I think that the saying Whatever floats your boat is applicable here.
ReplyDeleteAs long as one's position is "working for them".
Not at all, it was a wonderful rollercoaster of a sentence with barely repressed anger:-)
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