I don't know about you? I used to find that things happened and whilst I might have been p1ssed off about it, I moved on and found the next thing that p1ssed me off? I found that I dwelt on things in my head, I'm an INTJ, that's what we do but some time ago I worked out that these things were very damaging to my well being. They lived rent free in my head but I didn't go around spouting this stuff off to random people.
There's lots going on out in the weird world. Today I came across someone who was convinced that people reminiscing about the late Queen's appearance at the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony was all about Brexit. That happened - I don't know, what six or more years ago? It's a bit like people who don't like Donald Trump. He's actually been the elected leader of the USA. To hear people here in the UK say stuff like he's an idiot or stuff like that is just strange as you don't get to be the President if you are an idiot, oh wait, Joe Biden, OK I'll take that all back LOL.
It's this calling names, yelling vitriol and judgemental world we live in these days. Social media doesn't really help with everyone jumping in, making absurd comments, unjustified accusations and in many cases perverting the course of justice. Something happens and the great unwashed become judge and jury, condemning someone based on a 30 second piece of mobile phone (there's always a bloody mobile phone) footage!
Social media shows its side of the story and everyone jumps and accuses. They aren't so quick to undo their actions when a little later some more facts come out, the damage is done. Whilst I'm on the Social Media bandwagon, so much of it is contrived nonsense, no doubt TikTok or whatever is partially to blame but there's never a good deed done that doesn't go un-filmed from many angles? When was the last time you were out and just happened to stick your phone onto HD Video mode and filmed a random stranger in the remote possibility they may do something nice to someone you don't know?
The Brexit thing makes me laugh as it has been a long time now and people are still angry about a fully democratic vote that didn't turn out the way they wanted. I've just felt the same where a new Government has been elected on around 30% of the vote with a huge majority and we now have a socialist party in place. Now I remember the last one and it was pretty bad and cost me personally tens of thousands of pounds, they destroyed my first business with their taxes (I'm the sort of person who decided that I didn't want to litigate or fight, I just took the money and shut down the business and they had no taxes from me so at a stroke that's my personal tax, company taxes, NI and all of those - I used to pay my way but not after they stole it from me). They destroyed my retirement savings and my shares were raided, as was my pension and savings and people have very very short memories.
We also forget that we, the people, have the power but we think that our MPs and the like do. The late Tony Benn (Labour party) developed five questions to the powerful – “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?”
People are generally ignorant of how they could take back control and how to exercise their power but they are too busy not listening or learning to know how to do it.
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