Well, not anywhere nice unfortunately. Just unable to muster any sort of energy to do very much at all. Meanwhile the level of bile and general hysteria is rumbling on but I seem to have noticed a little sea change. Perhaps it is to do with the fact that the vile face of disablism is finally becoming apparent. Look at the awful scenes in the Panorama programme.... then look at the 'care home' providers who ripped everyone off and then left the very people they were supposed to help facing homelessness. Because this is what happens when you are driven by money. People no longer matter.
Are people finally beginning to see the human face behind the disablism? Few of those young people brutalised and tormented at Winterbourne would eveyr be able to work.... are they just scroungers? Workshy? Or can people finally see the human face? I live in hope.
In Ancient Rome the Stoics argued against slavery not because it was wrong per se (in their eyes), but because it was morally harmful to the slave owner. That's an interesting take on it.... do you think we could persuade the Con Dem coalition to drop some of their planned cuts on the grounds that it will be morally harmful to them (rather than just physically harmful to us?) Now there's a thought.
I'm not going to hold my breath though. I can't. It hurts too much.
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