As The Rules Change...
May. 24th, 2020 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloComing out of lockdown will prove tougher than entering it- with every step accompanied by a debate on how far it's safe to go. For people like myself- who are naturally solitary- there'll be the need to adjust- and even more- the need to want to adjust- to being around people again. It doesn't take much for me to sink into a hermit mentality- with accompanying misanthropy- and I've now had two months of turning round and round in my nest- the way dogs do- and making it all comfy...
I was surprised at Dominic Cummings. Here's a very clever man who has gone out of his way to alienate the civil service- including the security services- and he seems to have thought he could flout his own government's rules on lockdown- and nobody would notice. But I suppose it's not unusual for the highly intellectual to be extraordinarily naïve. There are lots of different ways of being smart- and few people, if any, can master them all.
I dreamed I was sitting on a narrow platform that was jutting out from a very high wall- and waving goodbye to some friends. I decided it was time to move, so I stepped across to where I thought there'd be steps or a ladder or something of the sort- only to find there was no way down. By now vertigo had set in. And then I thought, "I don't need to be dreaming this; lets dream something else." So I did.
I was surprised at Dominic Cummings. Here's a very clever man who has gone out of his way to alienate the civil service- including the security services- and he seems to have thought he could flout his own government's rules on lockdown- and nobody would notice. But I suppose it's not unusual for the highly intellectual to be extraordinarily naïve. There are lots of different ways of being smart- and few people, if any, can master them all.
I dreamed I was sitting on a narrow platform that was jutting out from a very high wall- and waving goodbye to some friends. I decided it was time to move, so I stepped across to where I thought there'd be steps or a ladder or something of the sort- only to find there was no way down. By now vertigo had set in. And then I thought, "I don't need to be dreaming this; lets dream something else." So I did.
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Date: 2020-05-24 09:19 am (UTC)If Cummings were not the sort of person he is, he'd already have resigned rather than trying to cling on and I find the rallying round of the senior troops deeply disturbing! He really must know where an awful lot of bodies are buried!
Caught with trousers down? GO!
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Date: 2020-05-24 10:21 am (UTC)