I've become more and more disappointed in the thinness of skin that people have these days. You can't say or think or even look at anything without someone getting amazingly angry about it.
If someone says "I dislike Politician A's position on this subject" then the bitterness and vitriol spews forth with the fury of someone who's just experienced a physical assault upon themselves. Guess what? They haven't. The rational, reasonable, reaction is to say, "well, I disagree with that person, but that's ok." At the very worst, the reaction should be, "I see no reason to give credence to that opinion, as I feel it is silly." But, instead, we have people up in arms, screaming from the highest bough that this OPINION is not only wrong, but a danger!
Recently, Sir Paul McCartney made a silly/stupid statement about George Bush not even knowing what a library was. I'm a huge Paul fan. Great music. Does a lot of good things. He made a dumb statement, but that's HIS RIGHT. It's ok. God willing, we'll all live. I don't share his belief and feel he was saying it as a popular/bad joke.
But at least one person I work with was furious! Enraged! "How dare he!!! He's not even an American." (Of course, the person who was furious didn't vote in the last election, so there has to be a bit of hypocracy or irony or something along those lines.) Thing is, who cares what he says? So he didn't like Bush. . .and that's a crime now? I don't care. I'll still continue to enjoy the music. And so should you. (If you are predisposed to enjoy it at all.)
My point (a point, that would be nice) is that we need to calm the hell down and if someone has a different opinion than ourselves, that's a good thing. It's fantastic. I don't want everyone to be like me or you or the person I work with. I hate 80's music. My girlfriend loves it.
And I wouldn't want it any other way.
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