Hello.
My blog is actually called, "I know, why don't we.....?"
It is not a whinge about cars up my bum, but upmybum started with my daily car journey, in which almost every driver behind me drives so close that I feel nervous and intimidated, and they could not possibly not run upmybum if I had to brake. The reason I'm blogging is that I'm endlessly fascinated by things we do that are normal and unremarkable, when in fact they are actually very strange. And harmful. We lose 3,000 people on the roads every year. We think it's a fair price to pay for mobility and goods.
There's a reason people do the upmybum thing. There's a reason people act ugly on the street. There's a reason people steal instead of work.
And so on.
They didn't come into the world like that.
We made them that way.
If we find out how we made them that way, perhaps from now on we can make everybody better. Making new people is quite a responsibility.
Heraclitus (ancient Greek person)said something about the nature of truth being hidden, so if we want to understand old conundrums, we have to frame them in a new way. So........
I know, why don't we all get around in metal boxes that go fast enough to crush our heads and limbs, and put them on slippy round things so we can't be sure of controlling them and then go round everywhere ever so fast and especially always stay up somebody's bum.
Get the idea?
If we're going to learn to occupy the planet in harmony with each other and not blow it up or poison it, we've got to find out why we do strange stuff. We do strange stuff believing it's O.K. We come into the world full of enthusiasm and goodwill, and wind up doing stuff that guarantees a lot of people a tough time.
I know, why don't we hit our kids and then get really angry with them if they hit someone else.
Every so often, we get a new way of looking at things. If we're going to have a go at learning to make life O.K. for most people on the planet, maybe we could do worse than stepping outside of what we think of as normal.
