On Bullshit Anglo Complaining

In this unfortunate age, an age of super-gentleness and you-are-not-to-blame rhetoric it is harder and harder to take responsibility. I am not suggesting that hardships don’t exist and that people facing legitimate hardship should do anything other than what they are doing.

What I might be suggesting is that life itself has become a hardship That simply being an adult and paying your own way, learning some hard lessons and growing to proper adulthood  is so daunting we need additional assistance to deal with it. I call bullshit. Not bullshit on real stress, real worry, real angst but bullshit on facing adulthood being something you need to write home for.

My brother has just completed a course in aged care where one of his peers couldn’t pass the test because he was doubly working at a factory. He was of Indian origin and so not having a job was a no-deal, he tried hard to pass the test but couldn’t because he had to spend time at the factory to keep the lights on. That is real pressure, trying to better your situation when the odds are against you. Your grandfather giving you shit at Christmas about not having a wife yet, thats the generation gap. 

Anglo people like to make a crisis out of nothing. I shan't be so bold as to say it is only anglo people, but a great many of us white-folk need to find something to cry about. The perpetual pity-party that makes us feel hard-done by and lets us play victim but holds no water in the wider world.

People do it harder, all over the world, every day. We don’t think of them and perhaps that’s justified; their day to day has nothing to do with ours. But it is worth sparing a thought, kids who have to haul coal, sleep with dirty old men, hot-wire bullshit chips into phones so that we can check our bank accounts or update Facebook regularly. We feel pain, they really suffer.

Shit sucks sometimes. You can feel sorry for yourself, or you can prosper. You can push through it and play yourself as a survivor, not a victim. If the wi-fi goes out or if someone dies, you will have support. A vast difference in outcomes and a very similar responce, in a lot ot places. Just not ours.