Seeing yourself

Subject: Seeing yourself.

When I was young the 'street debate' was common. Usually men would gather together to talk and argue about their conditions and about world affairs. These meetings were held under the street lights in some juncture of streets and buildings or in rooms above the pub taproom. Sometimes they were held in the grand Victorian buildings such as a civic centre or famously the corner of a park such as in Hyde Park.
Depending on the venue, the meetings were conducted by those attending with either the decorum of a boardroom or the shouting match of a football match. The "ragged trousered philanthropist" with his philosophy gained by life and much time spent in the warmth of the Library Reading Room, was contrasted by the middle class, small scale employer keen to hear and voice his opinions. The wealth of interest and concern led these men to their weekly debating haunts like bees to honey. The weather was no deterrent neither the distance since for a short time they were amongst brothers. The characteristic was a need to understand or to vent against the ills of the time and the men who gathered there were united, not in their argument either to the condition or the remedy but in the well being to be amongst people who cared enough.
And so it is with the blogosphere. The opinions are put out to be squandered by silence or savaged by a clash of personal experience.
It doesn't matter which it is since in my case it's partaking that is important. The

judgements which I make are mine alone, they are a anthology of my life and I am proud to be able to expand and enthuse about the conditions of the world we live in. It's a world far from perfect but it has within it the seeds of universality where a common good or bad resonates within us. If it doesn't perhaps we have already departed and don't know it.
I ask everyone who has a brain, to think and to feel outside their close personal need, their self centred image of what makes up the world and see themselves as a 'part of the whole' and not 'the whole of the part', which only effects them on a day to day basis.
Start a blog or as a start, reply to this one and we will see how far you are prepared to go to justify those assumptions of who you see you yourself to be.