Feel Better:Complain About Anything

Originally posted by Taurisk: ↑

@Joannie dear JoJo - Thankyou! - The ability to disagree is what makes us human, which proves that we have a creative brain.
I know you recycle, collect stuff - you were a grower of things - so you know about life cycles etc.

Greta (who is 'neurodivergent and she is a short lady, 1.49cm! ). She does come across the way you say it - but her opposition is much ruder - just check some of the writers here on HC - not on this thread, of course.
Europeans are slowly getting the message about re-cycling etc. but my generation and the next (dwindling because their Mums and Dads were too busy going on bi-annual holidays or cruises, filling their homes with trophies from foreign lands, household gadgets, driving the latest model car etc they became wasteful 'middle class')

Maybe she is not the best advocate for cleaner living - but she does represent the generation which will be most affected by climate change and they have every right to be angry.
Although 'anger' as such is not a problem solver, but perhaps a motivator.
AND if you follow the statistics on how far we have progressed in dealing with climate change, it makes sad reading - it looks like we are fast steering towards the 'last human on earth' - you, I won't see it, but we can still prevent it.

I also suspect that the old guard of ancient 'males' dislike Greta because she is a woman - but that's my personal opinion, having struck that a few times in my professional life, having to duck and weave and give way under male chagrin, misjudgments etc. often for non-compliance on my part.
. . . and there is the old prejudice against someone who does not appear to be quite 'normal' - yes she has some kind of condition (autism), she is neurodivergent, but so were Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Tesla + more - and maybe many a living 'leader' but they were men, and flew under the 'radar': presumed to be of 'genius'.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/22/greta-thunberg-mother-she-stopped-talking-and-eating
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Dear Tau, I was unaware that Greta was autistic. That does explain a great deal I guess.
Two of my grandchildren are and their Mum, who was always so terribly difficult has now been diagnosed.
She said it was a relief to finally understand herself, as she always “felt wrong”.
She dearly wanted me to see her psych as on a self check list I hit 100% for this condition. But I did not want to.
On reflection, perhaps I should have because now my daughter is on Ritalin she feels like a new person and it enables her to better cope with her two children.
I could imagine my granddaughter being like Greta, but I hope not.

Yes it is good that she is spreading the word, but on the other hand I wish her parents could get her to tone down the aggression.
That is a very negative message for young people to learn and look up to someone who does come across as a real brat.

I still totally despair of the way people live, especially now that we are back in the burbs.
The knocking down of perfectly decent houses after 30 years. The need to change their decor to the latest fad, sickens me. Our car, like yours is very old. But we have no intention to change it just for appearance sake.
Our son in law is always teasing us about it.
Yes temu, mmmm but I had bought no new clothes for over 25 years. Still it does encourage more waste and blatant consumerism.

Many of us old hippies will not be around in the next few decades, but my daughters have learned the value of preserving old furniture. Cooking from scratch, sewing, repairing and making things and much more. But Perth is very different from a lot of the communities in England, where thank heavens the “alternative” communities still thrive. I do not mean the LCBTG lot. Or whatever they are calling themselves today.

So lets me end this with that beautiful song by Michael Jackson, which those children were singing.Have to look for it now.