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RE: Thriving in Chaos

in #deepshit6 years ago

I feel OK with Chaos too, most of the time. Although physical chaos in my living space is another matter. That I find hard to live with.

I didn't rant and rave when Trump got voted in and the Brexit vote went the way it did because I thought the shake up they might both cause could be a good thing.

What we've been doing in politics has for years has been a stagnant to-ing and fro-ing and, in the UK at least, it could do with a shake up. The major parties have been really similar in their outlook. So much so that, for the first time in my life, I almost didn't vote in the last election.

Interestingly, although there are lots of stories about this and that happening and predictions about what Trump and Brexit might mean in the future, so far there hasn't been much chaos caused by either. Maybe it's early days. We'll see.

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Trump is a perfect example. Do I like him? Hell no. Do I think he’s done any good, not that I’m aware of. Do I think he will? No. But he forced so many people to question their assumptions about life and politics and society and to me that’s a huge win.
(Not trying to convince anyone of my politics)

There is a chinese idiom to describe this kind of situation perfectly, a bad thing can be relaly good and a good thing can be really bad, the story behind it is much more elegant though.

I agree. Anything that shakes up this complacent status quo we've been living in for yonks and makes people reconsider is a good thing.

An interesting scenario is developing re Brexit . . . if we don't get our shit together (which we don't appear to be doing) and end up leaving with no agreement, the areas that will be hurt the worst, at least in the short term and the ones that voted to leave and vice versa. Ironic, eh?

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