An SEP field

Those of you who have read all five of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books may recognise the concept of an SEP field. It was one of many genius ideas from Douglas Adams and proposed that if a person was faced with something that they couldn’t do anything about, that they would not even be able to see it as it was Somebody Else’s Problem! I feel like that about my local community. It’s not something that I have ever thought was relevant to me, wherever I have lived, and so I am not really engaged in thinking how to improve it. The SEP field is so strong that I don’t see anything in my local community apart from the fact that it isn’t violent or lawless, at least not at the moment. The people in my local community are no doubt very nice on the whole, but my own community is my house not anything outside. I support local businesses and deliver a local independently produced magazine with my wife, so I am not anti my community, but I don’t have any interest in thinking about how to improve it. Improvement is down to other people and I am more than happy to leave them to it as long as the community doesn’t affect me.