Recent content by Umai

So you made a claim about me that you can't substantiate. It happens.

Name some.

I don't think that anyone can do almost anything. And I've never understood the moral appeal of meritocracy: I've known and observed plenty people of renumerable talent, and their sense of entitlement, and their contempt.

I'll collect my pension at 67. 70 has recently been suggested in some circles. Being Brits though, we seem as apathetic as ever. We're so apathetic that the fact we resisted the Nazis seems less surprising than the fact we could be bothered getting out of bed to do it.

mmmm-hmmmmm.....

6w5

As with most things in life, I'm ambivalent. I can cling to stuff till it piles up, then there might be a big clear out, and it feels refreshing. The things that are most important to me - things like all the model aircraft I made as a kid that are still in my mother's attic - will probably...

That I need a woman like I need a hole in the head.

The ticking of my clock on the mantlepiece; the laboured hum of my ageing laptop.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/10/meet-generation-stay-at-home-dont-pay-to-go-clubbing-watch-it-at-home-on-your-phone

My experience in the UK is that the public space is being slowly taken over by extroversion. It feels almost impossible to find peace now. There is noise, and a desire for noise, everywhere.

He urges us to abandon ideologies and to stand up against the ideologies of the left. I never hear him say anything that's not straight out of the ideology of the right.

^^ It's funny, yes, but it also actually is puzzling and all the more so given that he's not without insight by any means.