Is it that the weight of historical events has placed them in a subordinate position for so long that they feel the need to be so shrill in their many criticisms. They are confirmed in their anger and frustration without considering the opposition has anything to say.
The older I get the more I begin to listen to various propositions in the fullness of the many opinions and shades of experience that can be brought to bear on any subject. Gone is my absolute surety that I am right, something that being young and at least holding opinions brought to the surface.
Today we have to accept that whilst we know more, we understand less. The shear volume of exposure to what is going on in all the many layers of human conduct, information that would have remained uncovered, has only caused more confusion.
Judgement used to be based on our own personal experience but now we have to deal with behaviour that is foreign to us which, for what ever reason, has been promulgated by sections of society who have the power to do these things, as the norm.
From hanging to abortion from all kinds of sexual preference to different cultural practices which are an anathema to people living on these islands.
We have to cope with an ongoing, changing script for what is acceptable and what is not, but whilst we conform we can't shrug off our old perceptions, now described as prejudice and why should we.
As I listen to the intolerance of the feminists on the program particularly in their criticism of the Pope who in their book should rewrite two thousand years of of Catholic teaching almost immediately but who, as the men on the panel suggested, needed to take the church with him and was moving this vast organisation with millions of followers in a way never seen before.
Its this shrill intolerance that gets up my nose, this need to shout down the opposition at every opportunity. Its why we dislike the political circus for contesting everything the opposition wishes to do, why we switch off their deliberation as a statement, fuelled by an objective that has little to do with the advancement of the cause of humanity at large but is smothered in self interest.
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