Published on 12, July, 2020
I find it hard to relax and often don't want to go out as I just end up getting upset, it's as if everywhere I go I see something wrong, even just going for a run in the park, kids are smoking drugs, people drinking and dog owners allowing their dogs to run about despite it clearly saying on the gate that all dogs must be kept on a leash. It seems whenever I get on a bus theres at least one PSD (personal stereo dhead) with crackling headphones and complete disregard for others or one woman with perfume that stinks the whole bus out and my latest annoyance is buskers...the trend now is that they have amplifiers and the music really is so loud that I want to scream at them. It also seems that everywhere I go there is people taking drugs, where I live they smoke drugs and sometimes the whole house stinks of it, you go to the park and kids are doing it and even yesterday I was at a market I seen people smoking it 3 times. On top of this, the place where I live over the last year has had 3 neighbouring properties do rennovations and each time they had no regard for sound regulations regarding audible noise coming from building sites, apparently you are anly allowed to make noise from 8am-6pm weekdays and 9am-1pm on Saturday but countless times they worked till late, on Sundays etc and when you tell the council they do nothing at all. Then theres those bloody chuggers...the high street is like a no go area sometimes, people jump in front of you and hold out their hand expecting to shake your hand like they have known you for years "hello my friend how are you..."...or they block your walking path to ask you if you can answer a quick question it only takes a minute..etc..Then you get people riding their bikes on the pavement, I have had 2 near misses already....then you've got idiots walking around with those crazy dogs which really annoys me despite god knows how many people getting their face chewed off. the owners waltz around all big and hard knowing that they are intimidating because they have an untrained wild animal that is bred to be aggressive. While all these things may seem trivial it seems society is on a downward spiral when it comes to casual law breaking and disrespect for others as in my experience it just gets worse and worse year on year....this is the society created by man.
Hi Paull
I can definitely sympathise with some of the things you've listed that annoy you. Sometimes, people's actions really seem to impinge upon our consciousness and can really upset the mood of the day. I don't think there's anything wrong with that in itself, as it shows someone to be more thoughtful in mindset, but I think too much concern about what other people do can really distort people's perception.
For me personally, the reason I don't like seeing/hearing some of the things you've listed is more because of the menacing value they have, as opposed to it being "unlawful". As the old saying goes, "laws are to be broken", especially if they're unreasonable laws that serve no other function but to encroach and stifle people's freedoms. There's been thousands of laws in history and in present day that are patently absurd, cruel and serve no good purpose whatsoever, and obeying them without question would be, if anything, a disservice to humanity. Take Nazi Germany for example: they banned Jazz music, for no other reason than racist bigotry. Would it be more immoral to defy that law and play jazz music that brings people together in harmony than it would be to pander to that law and consequently legitimise and give credence to Hitler's insane racial views? I would have thought the latter was far more immoral, myself. What about 1950s America criminalising interracial marriage? Or Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving cars? (or showing any part of their bodies, for that matter) Just because something's written in the law by those in positions of decision making, it doesn't make it any more legitimate. Also Paull, you said that "this is the society created by man", but it's the very same society that created the laws in the first place. Without it, there'd be no law whatsoever, even when it came down to murder, so I think our society is far better than the alternative, however bad it can get.
That's my thoughts on your post, Paull, and I hope they give a bit of food for thought, even if you disagree!