DO IT YOURSELF

I’m the world’s greatest do it yourself expert. Whenever someone wants me to do something technical, I say: ‘Do it yourself.’
It’s nothing to do with being lazy, or anything like that. It’s just that, whilst the brain seems to work adequately, it cannot transmit to the hands. It once took me two hours to work out how to open the bonnet (hood) of a car.
Flat packs remain flat in my hands; paint always ends up upside down. But the other day, I think I crowned by brilliant abilities as a handyman.

It was one of those days

It began when my wife called me into the kitchen to peruse a tap that just wouldn’t turn off. Water poured, splashing the surrounding area. I said: ‘Oh dear, my dearest darling, you seem to be having a spot of trouble.’
(Yea, right)
Now, this was the first house I had had with a new combination water boiler under the stairs. Immediately I bent down to the stop cock under the sink to turn the water off. A little old, a little rusty, it just wouldn’t turn. So out came the hammer …

Emergency measures

Numerous bangs later, water splashing all about me, it was time for the phone.
Plumber came. Perused the problem. Went under the stairs. Water off.
‘It moved,’ he said, a smirk on his face.
Don’t you just hate it when that happens.

© Anthony North, August 2007

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THEY MUST BE STONED

One of the greatest disgraces of the liberal elite is their ideas on drugs. To many, drug taking is not the problem it seems. Quite rightly, they claim addicts should be treated rather than punished. But beyond this, they do not accept the dangers of illness and addiction associated with many of the drugs in circulation.
To take such a stance is not only lunacy, but shows a total lack of understanding of the problem they claim to talk about.

MIDDLECLASS USAGE

Many liberals would privately admit that it is not dangerous to take drugs. They can say this because they have taken them themselves, without serious adverse effects. And again, they could well be right. But they fail to take into account the differing sociological factors involved in drug usage.
The central mentality within the liberal elite is that of middleclass people claiming to know what the lower classes need and how they should behave. Hence, they place their standards upon the rest. They claim they can do this because they do not accept class, and have decided that everyone is the same.
They have made it politically incorrect to disagree with this stance. But regardless, they are talking bunkum.

A CLASS THING

People are not the same, and upbringing and aspiration can have a great deal to do with their differentness.
Bearing this in mind, the middleclass liberal will usually have a career structure in front of them, and have fulfilling lives. Hence, they are reasonably happy with their lives, and any dug usage they partake in is recreational – a sidestepping of life into a drug induced world purely as a momentary escape.
This is unlikely to lead to addiction or dangerous overuse, because they do not really need the drug to sustain them. In the working class, or the terribly named underclass, this is not the same. Here, career structure and fulfillment may not exist. If work is done, it is likely to be boring, done purely to earn money, with no job satisfaction above the work ethic itself.

THE HOPELESS TRAP

To such people, possibly also trapped in poverty, drug use becomes more than a temporary escape or experimentation. Rather, it takes them out of their lives in a substantial way. And most importantly, when they return to ‘normal’ they don’t like what they see. Their life is not what they want it to be, so they are more likely to take drugs again to continue to escape.
We are told that addiction lies in the chemicals in a particular drug. This may be partially true. But addiction is also a matter of expectation, in a sociological and psychological sense, from life and the landscape a drug takes the person to. If happiness and fulfillment is not found in life, drug addiction is far more likely. And in failing to realise this, liberals are not just fools, but dangerous fools.

© Anthony North, August 2007

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