Is it that as one gets older one loses some of that insouciance, some of that élan vital, that allows younger people to view even the worst disasters with a certain degree of equanimity (assuming that they are not personally involved)? Or is that from time to time this particular blogger is more easily thrown off his stride? Whatever the reason, I find I can hardly bring myself to listen to, watch or read the news at the moment. When I am in this sort of mood it seems to me that the news is just one catastrophe after another, on a scale previously unimagined, and that any attempt to follow events rationally and objectively is tantamount to admitting, at some point, that one does not take any of them seriously.
Luckily these moods don't last too long, but - if this doesn't sound too insufferably inward-looking to those directly affected by these catastrophes and disasters (what's the difference?) - I should think quite a few people in the effete West are thrown right off balance at the moment.
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