Stuck in a Lift
Posted: 11 May 2011, 07:01
I often use an expression about not wanting to be stuck in a lift about people who I feel uneasy about being around which I guess neatly combines paranoia with clusterphobia (sic).
The coming days will be in many ways be analaogous to being stuck in a broken down lift with a small group of fellow passengers. There is a tendency on this forum to obsess about nuts and bolts techy hardware and macro economic stuff but these may be of much less importance than we think.
It may well happen that discussions of the precise reason the lift has ceased to function, how spare parts may be sourced and paid for will fade in significance compared to how we are going to rub along with the limited but diverse range of folks we happen to be stuck in the lift with.
Folks who appear to have all the technical and social skills and the trappings of success may come to pieces when moved outside their dominating comfort zone whilst some unpromising looking drones may well excell.
Every teenager wearing a hoody is not necessarily some atavistic monster with a knife whilst many pillars of society are anything but. And please do not get me going about unchristian christians!
Living in a rural area with a low permanent population, where even the most asocial have lots of opportunities to interact and discover lots about their neighbours, whether they want to or not, is certainly very educational in this respect.
Apart from some local head cases and the terminally self obsessed I generally have a very high regard for my neighbours especially those engaged in agriculture and working with animals.
I have noticed particular concern many people on this forum have with the other occupants of the areas where they live and how they might react under increased pressure and wonder how much of this is based on perception rather than reality.
The coming days will be in many ways be analaogous to being stuck in a broken down lift with a small group of fellow passengers. There is a tendency on this forum to obsess about nuts and bolts techy hardware and macro economic stuff but these may be of much less importance than we think.
It may well happen that discussions of the precise reason the lift has ceased to function, how spare parts may be sourced and paid for will fade in significance compared to how we are going to rub along with the limited but diverse range of folks we happen to be stuck in the lift with.
Folks who appear to have all the technical and social skills and the trappings of success may come to pieces when moved outside their dominating comfort zone whilst some unpromising looking drones may well excell.
Every teenager wearing a hoody is not necessarily some atavistic monster with a knife whilst many pillars of society are anything but. And please do not get me going about unchristian christians!
Living in a rural area with a low permanent population, where even the most asocial have lots of opportunities to interact and discover lots about their neighbours, whether they want to or not, is certainly very educational in this respect.
Apart from some local head cases and the terminally self obsessed I generally have a very high regard for my neighbours especially those engaged in agriculture and working with animals.
I have noticed particular concern many people on this forum have with the other occupants of the areas where they live and how they might react under increased pressure and wonder how much of this is based on perception rather than reality.
very good!