We need the movers and shakers of this world, obnoxious as they often are, to get things done, to change our way of looking at things. I know that if it were up to people like me, few if any of the positive changes in society that have occurred in my lifetime would ever have taken place.
But we can't all be movers and shakers. Just imagine the mayhem if we were ALL militant feminists, environmentalists or supporters of Queen's Park Rangers. Or if ALL of us were bestselling authors or eminent psychiatrists. Imagine a world in which we were ALL master chefs. The fact is, these outsized egos could not possibly function without the existence of a huge cohort of lackeys and hangers-on ready to massage them at every turn. Where would politicians be without an electorate, a football club without fans, an author without readers, a doctor without patients, or for that matter a priest without a congregation? Where indeed?
So there is also ample scope for layabouts like me to take on the thankless task of transcribing my grandmother's diary. Can you honestly see George Clooney editing his aunt's diaries?
But we can't all be movers and shakers. Just imagine the mayhem if we were ALL militant feminists, environmentalists or supporters of Queen's Park Rangers. Or if ALL of us were bestselling authors or eminent psychiatrists. Imagine a world in which we were ALL master chefs. The fact is, these outsized egos could not possibly function without the existence of a huge cohort of lackeys and hangers-on ready to massage them at every turn. Where would politicians be without an electorate, a football club without fans, an author without readers, a doctor without patients, or for that matter a priest without a congregation? Where indeed?
So there is also ample scope for layabouts like me to take on the thankless task of transcribing my grandmother's diary. Can you honestly see George Clooney editing his aunt's diaries?
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