And Justice For Some

Why don't we get an understanding of each?

Why do we all end up as poor judges of character, despite our best efforts?

Why do we not spot the Rolfs?

What is the problem with the people we are supposed to look up to  - those in power, or worse... In entertainment.

We know the politicians got there by beating and cheating. We know they justify theri journey by the end point oh and "wanting to help people". Please.... 

This is a very thin narrative that occupies the place where integrity should sit.

And those entertainers... Who is it that impresses you? Ken Barlow, Chris Evans, 

I endured a Russell Brand rant on Rolf today.He got to talk about what it was to be kind to each other, preaching to us about the right way to join in with society of the commune.

Russell Brand! The person who phoned oldy Andrew Sachs and left a message saying he'd fucked his granddaughter. And still hasn't shown remorse. 

We are supposed to take on what is to be decent from him!! Help me!

We don't get an understanding of each other because we don't work hard enough at it.

If you expect certain feelings to sit in exactly the same location in somebody else's brain as in yours, and....activated in exactly the same circumstances, I'm afraid you are making a mistake.

And of course as soon as you can decide you got no hold on that person...or maybe just hold no truck with them then you can relax back in your brain that knows so well how thigns are and should be. Put on your brain slippers and live inside your own delusions. Bolster your blockades and barriers with broader strokes and thicker lines. Prevent understanding.

You can do this over a lifetime. 

It's a disinterest - an uninterest, maybe an anti-interest - a lack of willingness to try to understand somebody else. 

It's incredibly complicated. We don't understand our own brains, certainties, desires. Trying to extend those uncertainties to somebody else is tricky, except at the simplest levels. 

You might understand what drink they might have from the bar for example. But you know what. Today they might have something different.

They might try a different decision on for size.

Old politicians and entertainers have philandered for years. It was funny beacsue it was a funny work. Paddy Pantsdown!! David Mellor in a Chelsea shirt! But it is betrayal and now increasingly it involves what we describe as rape or paedophilia. 

It's not funny anymore - they have abused people around them in every way possible.

The lovable entertainers have taken advantage of their position because they could.

And we let them.

They all thought themselves untouchable because they were. Then time passed.

In many of these cases their principal mistake was living too long.

Who knew that it would be improvements in medicine that brought justice.

More so than the law.