"Ken, why on earth do you stay there?"
"Well, you know that mad idea young men tend to have, that they can change the world?"
"Yes..."
"I still have it. I reckon that if I can change our place then the world is a piece of piss."
"I suppose so..."
"Well, if we don't change, we're fucked."
"So you really reckon you can do it then?"
"Oh no. We're fucked."
I've got a counselling session tomorrow afternoon. It sounds like I'm not the only one who should have one.
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I can't help admiring Ken: it's better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. (There's a Kipling quotation about this somewhere....)
It's the fatalistic pride in failure I find the most disturbing. He seems determined to at least enjoy the awfulness of it.
Roll on retirement! Every retired person I know is happy as a pig in mud.
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