Surely it isn't just me?
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:01 pm
Surely it isn't just me? It creeps up on you slowly, and by time you realise you've got a problem on your hands, it's too late. Isn't there a name for it? Putting lobsters in a pot of cold water and turning the temperature up very slowly so that they don't notice it until they're almost cooked?
Of course, we're not lobsters, and we're not in a pot of water, but the principle still applies.
It needn't be heat, either. It could be cold. Getting colder and colder.
It might not be temperature either, but I think everybody knows what I mean, nonetheless.
Of course, it's easy to blame it all on modern technology, but the problem is really as old as Methuselah - who might have lived longer himself if he hadn't drifted off to sleep with the hot water running.
But that's a cheat, I know. I'm talking figuratively, not literally, and if the two happen to briefly co-incide that's nothing more than luck, and I shouldn't be looking to take advantage of it. (Still, you can't blame me for being tempted.)
Of course, it's only natural to look to the future at times like this, and wonder if those that follow will do any better. My suspicion, though, is that even a brand new colony living on Mars would fall into the same old traps.
I don't think it's an Abbott/Rudd thing, either. Or a Republican/Democrat thing. Or an NRL/AFL thing. And don't put it down to gender politics, either - or the generation gap. And I don't think the gay community manages it any better - though I'm not suggesting they do any worse, either - and I wonder if it's even fair to talk of a 'gay community', given the inevitable crossover between 'gay' and 'non-gay'. Not necessarily in bed - though I'm sure that happens too - but in the TV room, or the street. Of course, not all sexual activity takes place in the bed, but fortunately not too much takes place in the street, and I guess the TV room is somewhere in the middle - though whether the TV itself is on or off at the time I would not like to guess. Nor the channel.
All of which seems to have taken me some considerable way from my original proposition though, to be honest, I'm not sure I ever had one.
Of course, we're not lobsters, and we're not in a pot of water, but the principle still applies.
It needn't be heat, either. It could be cold. Getting colder and colder.
It might not be temperature either, but I think everybody knows what I mean, nonetheless.
Of course, it's easy to blame it all on modern technology, but the problem is really as old as Methuselah - who might have lived longer himself if he hadn't drifted off to sleep with the hot water running.
But that's a cheat, I know. I'm talking figuratively, not literally, and if the two happen to briefly co-incide that's nothing more than luck, and I shouldn't be looking to take advantage of it. (Still, you can't blame me for being tempted.)
Of course, it's only natural to look to the future at times like this, and wonder if those that follow will do any better. My suspicion, though, is that even a brand new colony living on Mars would fall into the same old traps.
I don't think it's an Abbott/Rudd thing, either. Or a Republican/Democrat thing. Or an NRL/AFL thing. And don't put it down to gender politics, either - or the generation gap. And I don't think the gay community manages it any better - though I'm not suggesting they do any worse, either - and I wonder if it's even fair to talk of a 'gay community', given the inevitable crossover between 'gay' and 'non-gay'. Not necessarily in bed - though I'm sure that happens too - but in the TV room, or the street. Of course, not all sexual activity takes place in the bed, but fortunately not too much takes place in the street, and I guess the TV room is somewhere in the middle - though whether the TV itself is on or off at the time I would not like to guess. Nor the channel.
All of which seems to have taken me some considerable way from my original proposition though, to be honest, I'm not sure I ever had one.