People!

To quote the song from Scrooge, ‘I hate people’!! One of the lines is ‘Picked at random, I can’t stand’ em’! I can’t imagine complaining about anything more than other human beings. When you look at the politicians we elect, the people who gain power at any level from the office upwards, they reflect, in 90% of cases, the very worst of us. The only possible conclusion to draw is that they therefore reflect our basic nature. If our basic nature was good, we would elect better leaders, our companies would employ better leaders and we would quickly turn our backs on the people who represent our worst sides. We don’t, therefore we must be like them as a species. Think about your experience at school. I bet that you had barely crossed the threshold at the age of 5 before the bullying, name calling and unkindness started. Children are adults in the making and the prevalence of unpleasant behaviour of the youngest amongst us proves to me that we don’t come into the world as innocents. Our basic nature is genetically hard wired into us and that basic nature is to single out differences and treat those differences as unacceptable to society.

The bulk of humanity don’t care about the increasing injustice, inequality or unkindness in every country in the world. We elect leaders who don’t care about those things because we are in tune with them. The world is simply getting worse, both in terms of behaviour and in terms of climate, and many of my fellow semi-evolved apes welcome this. As a species we have stopped seeking truth, connection and empathy and instead retreated into silos of our own making where we instantly dismiss the arguments we disagree with, and I am definitely guilty of that.

So, there you have it. I will always complain about the people who I share the world with, and if I don’t complain about them, that is because they are the exceptions to the rule!