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That small, provincial misanthropy

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Petty feelings of envy, vexation, wounded vanity, of that small, provincial misanthropy engendered in petty officials by vodka and a sedentary life, swarmed in his heart like mice.

Anton Chekhov – The Husband (1886)

We navigate through life by avoiding surprises, which are in effect, anomalies in the otherwise even flow of daily life. There are numerous examples such as a flat tyre on the car, bad weather, Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on the door and so on.

An obvious but major failing of modern life is how this natural avoidance has become far too petty for far too many people. We are hitting the problem good and hard here in the UK, where petty conflicts, absurd political expectations, irrational health advice, irrational health expectations and irrational expectation generally have degraded our ability to accept trade-offs.

We are losing sight of a fact of life that not every petty detail of daily life can be congenial, not every expectation met. The rational avoidance of anomalies, the one which evolved within us as human beings, it comes with trade-offs imposed by the real world. 

If we demand petty and unrealistic avoidance policies from government, then we end up electing liars as our Parliamentary representatives. We end up fostering a culture where lying is a basic tactic of the ambitious, even on a grand scale where billions are squandered and only the liars make a profit. 

The liars we elect and foster throughout our culture will purport to sell us a life without trade-offs, one where only other people have to accept the trade-offs. It doesn’t work like that – not forever.


Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2024/08/that-small-provincial-misanthropy.html


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