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Saturday 12 October 2019

People who never let go




Years ago I worked with a chap who had a fixed idea that certain aspects of the entire organisation of over 10,000 people should be radically adjusted to suit his personal preferences. He would go on about this for years even though his idea was hopelessly absurd. Yet he just couldn’t let it go.

This is something the internet rams home - how some people cannot let go of an issue and move on. Sometimes it is a case of fighting a battle and refusing to give in, but sometimes it is merely the inability to let go, to adjust. Some years ago I was reading a technical blog post which had attracted hundreds of comments and over 140 of those comments were made by a single person banging on about a single issue. I counted them – must be the nerd in me.

Brexit has highlighted this strange issue to an extraordinary degree. There are educated people out there who cannot adjust to the referendum vote. They cannot make the best of the situation because that would require them to accept it. They just can’t do it and prefer to go on and on and on about it for years even if that makes the situation far worse than it need be. Weird people. Boring too.

3 comments:

Sam Vega said...

Yes, I can't make out what motivates them. Some appear to think they have everything still to play for. That we needn't leave if they or some important person like Grieve or Bercow pulls off some amazing coup which saves everything. Some, though, just seem to want to grumble. It reminds me of those glum elderly people who are always moaning and think the weather, and the food, and manners, and the neighbourhood, are in perpetual decline. It's quite odd when this attitude is found among woke Guardian reading young people, but that's what they seem to be doing.

Scrobs. said...

We even had a Christmas card with a note exemplifying all this nonsense once!

A blasted Christmas card for God's sake!

Needless to say, they get short shrift now...

A K Haart said...

Sam - good point, younger people shouldn't be this negative. Even oldies aren't that apocalyptic.

Scrobs - blimey - a Christmas card? I'd strike them off the card list too.