The comical thing is rich people will read this story and think Feeney is weird. He's not. THEY'RE the weird ones.
It's exactly as he says. How many more yachts, homes or pairs of shoes do you need? And money doesn't buy happiness. It only buys a pleasant form of misery.
Hence, in my opinion, not just boomer behaviour... but Brexit. Boomers got rich through property. Boomers found this didn't make them any happier. Boomers got even richer and even more miserable. Boomers blamed their misery on everyone else.
Whereas what's the most innate human need there is? Helping someone else. I know that's what makes me feel good much more than anything else. It always has.
Hence so many people in poorly paid caring professions feeling like what they do means something. Because it does.
It makes a difference. There's no feeling like it.
A student of mine passed his exam the other day. He'd worked so hard for it and it was always down to whether he believed he could do it. I pushed him and did my Al Pacino Any Given Sunday thing and... he did it!
And it was SUCH a good feeling when he told me he'd passed. Not just for him; for me too. In, I'd argue, a selfish way. I think teachers *are* selfish: it's that feeling which we work for. The feeling of helping someone else succeed.
You may be appalled I've written that.
But we're not monks or something. And I'd far rather that form of selfishness - that's my pay-off, when someone else succeeds in part thanks to my work - than one which involves screwing over others to get what you want.
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And if I see one more inadequate, entitled, clueless male on this website come out with pathetic, condescending beyond belief, passive aggressive bullshit like:
That one lousy England cap was as part of our worst team since 1993. The ONLY one not to qualify - and you weren't even good enough to be picked for it more than once.
In fact, you have MORE CONVICTIONS FOR VIOLENT CRIME than England caps, you absolute waste of skin.
Gary Neville can tell his grandkids about the absolutely magnificent career he had in the game.
You can tell yours about the time you stubbed a lit cigar out in a youth player's eye.
Or when you violently assaulted a teammate, leaving him unconscious with a detached retina.
Today, in the world of sensible centrist liberal media 🙄🙄🙄
1. Thomas L. Friedman is worried for the world and tries to explain what's happening to it. He explains what's happening to it by... saying THIS.
Yes folks. The difference between Dubai and Gaza isn't that one is staggeringly rich in natural resources and the other is a rock. And it isn't that one is independent and the other has been illegally occupied and blockaded for so long.
It's 'visionary leadership'.
I'll tell you one of the very many things wrong with this awful world, Tom. It's that racist Orientalists like you - utterly incapable of EVER treating Arab people as equals - get given such a high profile platform to pump out such constant ignorant beyond imagination drivel.
THREAD: Argentina. Why has this happened - and what's going to happen now?
The first thing to say about why this has happened is pretty simple. The options facing a desperate, frantic Argentinian public were APPALLING. All of them.
In August, at the primaries, the mostly centre-right Juntos por Cambio (which governed, very badly, through Mauricio Macri between 2015 and 2019) voters made a dreadful, in my view indefensible blunder.
They selected Patricia Bullrich over Horacio Rodriguez Larreta.
Bullrich is right wing. She's also maybe the most completely talentless politician I have EVER seen in this part of the world.
She's charmless, utterly unlikeable, and has made an absolutely preposterous political journey from militant leftist to now, the far right,
When the provisional IRA tried to assassinate the entire British government, the British government did not respond by carpet bombing Belfast for weeks on end.
Nor did it impose a 16-year-long siege on the island of Ireland.
Nor did it cut off electricity, water, food, fuel and communications.
In fact, much of the world - including, notably, the US - understood that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland had an entirely legitimate grievance. And were victims of an historic injustice.
UK politicians wouldn't have even dreamt of such a response. Had it been attempted, we'd have been ostracised by the entire world, maybe forever.
And in the end, peace was achieved. Draining the swamp of support for terrorism through dialogue, power-sharing and democracy.
"Research by the IJPR shows about 2% of the population of Great Britain can be characterised as “hardcore” antisemites - defined as those believing multiple anti-Jewish tropes simultaneously - whereas 70% is found to hold no anti-Jewish views at all".theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…
"A 2021 survey by the institute, conducted two months after the last war in Gaza, found that almost three-quarters of Jewish adults in the UK felt that non-Jews held them responsible for the actions of the Israeli government during the conflict..."
"More than half said that public and media criticism of Israel at the time made them feel that Jews were not welcome in the UK".
Several things here.
1. Anyone attacking or insulting British Jews for the actions of Israel is an antisemitic arsehole.