The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life

[poliphilo]

I made a resolution yesterday: I'm going to stop taking a day to day, close-up interest in politics. What good has it ever done me or anybody else? It's a bad habit and merely stirs up negativity.

As it happens I dreamed about Gordon Brown last night. He was presiding over a school dance. I guess my subconscious had clocked a resemblance between him and "Ted" Maidment- popular history teacher of my youth- and  was using it to seal the pact. Discipline at school dances was pretty strict- no snogging, no hanky-panky- but Ted was permissive and looked the other way when I sloped off to the curtained cubicle with my partner. Good bloke. In the dream I felt about Gordon the way I felt about Ted. 

And now I'm off to vote against him in the local elections.

Comments

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

I came to that same conclusion. We are like monkeys in treetops listening to our neightbours gibbering about possible predators, we all love bad news, we enjoy depressing ourselves with scandals and horrors. It isn't going to help us and it isn't life affirming. It just makes us feel impotent. I read the Economist, I listen to the Today programme for about half an hour, but only because my DH likes it to be on our alarm clock, then I let it go.

Nobody wants to be ill informed but oh, the worry of incessant politicking.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's a balance to be struck between being reasonably well informed and a hopeless news junkie. I think it'll take some adjustment before I get it right. The first step was to ditch the Guardian as my home page. I haven't read a newspaper today, though I have watched the TV news.