A MODERATE KIND OF GUY

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What’s on today: About time we got rid of fanatics, don’t you think? … PLUS … Is an independent Kosovo a clever idea or not? Oh dear, recession on the way.
YOU KNOW IT’S THE WRITE WAY

A MODERATE KIND OF GUY

Let’s take feminism. One view on the subject is that women should stay in the home, cook Hubby his dinner, clean the house and leave things in the real world to men. After all, this is how it’s been through most of history.
Alternatively, men have had it good for too long. Women are far superior in many ways, and the world would be a better place if they were in charge. So move aside you men – women rule, OK!

Both arguments are, of course, absolute rubbish. Yet …

In some fields I’d accept women were superior to men. This is because both male and female bring different attributes to a job – basically, equal but different. And similarly, some women prefer to stay in the home.
The world is varied and both my opening views can apply in certain conditions. So what is wrong with my opening statements? The problem is the degree to which the idea is taken – to the point of the absolute; to the region of fanaticism.

This is the problem with many ideas today.

A thinker will get something into his head and decide that is how the world should be. Well, sorry, the world just isn’t like that. Rather, the world is, other than a small percentage of fanatics, a moderate kind of place.
Infact, I’d say over 90% of people just want to get on with life, but are constantly pulled this way or that by a minority of loud mouthed morons who think they know best. Well, fanatics, you don’t. For no matter what sphere you are ranting in, you are wrong.
Fanaticism, you see, is always wrong. To me, there is only one way to a form of knowledge that is acceptable. And that is the way of the moderate.

© Anthony North, February 2008

THE FANATIC

Fanatics come, fanatics go,
bringing man to a terrible low;
Fanatics rave, fanatics shout,
telling us what it’s all about;
Fanatics lie, fanatics cheat,
one day they’ll cause a nuclear heat;
Fanatics, they get in your head,
despite the moderate warnings said;
but don’t worry,
this time, only ten million dead!

THE KOSOVO PROBLEM

So, Kosovo breaks away from Serbia to become an independent state. Now, let me make it clear from the beginning, I supported NATO’s intervention in Kosovo, and it was right to stop the aspirations of the then Serbian government …
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RECESSION TIME

The governor of the Bank of England has admitted that the economy may grind to a halt this year. At last, a bit of honesty! Maybe he will also apologise for using every device to keep the ‘good times’ going, knowing the longer it did, the worst it will fall …
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