Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
About Me
- Susan Harwood
- It's one of those odd things . . . I live in my little house by the sea and listen to the radio and reckon I know best about more-or-less everything . . . as I keep telling the news-casters, the policiticians and all the experts interviewed there. I shout quite loud - but I'm beginning to suspect they can't hear! Sometimes, I write to my MP . . . but there's always more to say. So, here it is!
BOOK ON A BLOG
THE BRICKS IN THE CAVE - A full length children's adventure story by Susan Harwood - click on the book to read it.
ANOTHER BOOK ON A BLOG
TIMES RHYMES - For people who want to learn 'Times Tables' the easy way!
2 comments:
Do you believe there is a difference between jealousy and envy ?
Nice to see you back again.
Thanks, Bare-Faced Gardener. And I'm glad to read a comment from you too!
I'm not sure if I'm really 'back' though. It's the jolly old recession and world situation that have shut me up recently. The posts in this blog have mostly risen from thinking the way we have been running the world risks destroying it. Suddenly, some of the contradictions in capitalism have become evident to more or less everybody so it seemed trite for me to be banging on about them . . . for example . . . why are governments trying so hard to support car industries when, for the last decade, I thought they had been encouraging people to become less dependent on privately owned motorised transport?
Jealousy and envy . . . I'd be interested to know how you use these words, how you distinguish between them.
. . . ???
The reason I raised this is the way many people are responding, for instance, to Sir Fred Goodwin's substantial pension. There's a bitterness involved which seems nothing to do with the case, nor with the personal circumstances of the people who are angry . . . but resentment about his good fortune and wealth - jealousy.
I think this endangers our society. (Really.) It may have been wrong for such a large amount to be written into his contract but that doesn't mean the contract should be overturned and the money grasped back. If we start re-writing laws retrospectively, based on the baser sides of our natures, . . . jealousy, envy (wishing in a destructive and bitter way that we could have as much money as he has) where will we end up?
Susan
Post a Comment