He he .. the alien has landed!

Well now this is fun!
This is a chance to make new chums of similar dispositions and similar outlooks.
Such folk are probably undergoing some kind of therapy, or at her majesty's pleasure, but then such is the reality of being nearly fifty and a keen student of human nature in a world stuffed full of paradox.
I do sometimes feel like an alien visiting a planet where I am familiar with the language and conventions but do not comprehend the shared values or deep presumptions that underwrite the way things are.
Unlike Louis Armstrong I do not see trees of green or red roses too.

• I see politicians so transparently crooked that one wonders if basic felony is a pre-requisite in standing for any political position. Isn't it paradoxical that we put people in positions of ultimate trust, running the country, who we would not trust to make us a sandwich?
• I see and hear musicians who's only definable quality appears to be a total lack of talent in any area that might be construed as music. This is referred to as popular music.
• I see sportsmen and women being valued above artists and being consulted on matters of philosophy or politics when clearly they are only good at bashing a spherical object, and then not well enough to win.
• I see "celebrities" valued highly as cultural leaders when they betray an almost complete lack of intelligence whenever they open the yawning, and generally broadly Thames flavoured gap beneath their silly noses.
• I see the elderly, who are by definition experienced and usually wise treated as fools and the young; who are by definition foolish treated as wise.
• I hear the beautiful language that is English whipped and fettered by almost everyone who is licenced by the media (meeejyaa) to occupy any kind of platform. Indeed it seems only the possession of an inability to articulate and a vocabulary largely comprised of the latest street gibberish will qualify as a commentator on our world. Most bizarrely, when someone like Brian Sewell who does have a proper grip on our fair tongue is showcased it is as some kind of anachronistic fool.. because he speaks properly!
• I see people fined more for speeding than for rape. Pursued more avidly for parking offences than for shoplifting and all this in cities where you cannot go out in the evening for fear of being vomited on or mugged.

Perhaps I have missed the point.

This has made me really miserable and it was supposed to be fun! I will try to make further observations less "going to the dogs"!

As I was going to write on my introductory page as my random question: "why are you reading this nonsense?

Pete