I have just come in. You see Spitlink....I have attained a lot of experience in dealing with crowds, but only in the past few years. I spent years and years in isolaton with all my meals served on trays and not going out (....not getting out much you see....😉 ..) and during this period which went on for years and engaged my attention and effort truly 24 / 7 I missed out a lot with regard to the collective behaviour of humanity. I succeeded in perfecting a series of seamless methodologies but was somewhat "naive" about "people" and the antics they could get up to in mainstream life.
When I finished and was satisfied all the methodologies were perfect I was then able to turn my attention to people. I became avidly interested in what can only be called Urban Anthropology, which is the study of the human creature in a modernistic environment. I approached this excercise according to my frame of reference which I thought was the norm.
I was in for a series of rude shocks. It caused me to change my posture because whereas till then I would be open to the idea of making allowances and excuses for the behaviour of people whose conduct was unacceptable...suddenly....one morning...my rubber band....my rubber band of tolerance and patience and generosity and goodwill...suddenly snapped..😆 ...with the consequence that I suddenly woke up to the reality of the carbunklery of humanity.
This awakening is formative, I assure you. In consequence of this I was forced to arrive at several conclusions, not about perceptions, but about stark realites relating to people and what I describe in other threads as "The Inabilities".
In direct consequence of these series of unexpected and bitter lessons, I was forced to modify aspects of my attitudes, leading up to my current posture.
For this reason you will read how it is that I make reference to rolled up newspapers, and the 74 Gun Warship, and recently added the bulldozer, the Maltese Bull with the horns in the groin and other allegories, because that is what they are, simply allegories which I share with a carefully selected and very small circle of individuals who are hand picked, and who are allowed to be "in the know" so to speak to the exclusion of all others as to the real meaning of these allegories.
It therefore means you must not take my statements literally, lest the conclusions you arrive at are the wrong ones.
For this reason I have been taught among other things, not to be generous with one's hard earned knowledge and expertise and to guard one's edges at all cost.
