Let the weekend begin :) Pretty quiet at work tonight... no excitement to report. I did have a conversation tonight that has stayed with me and I might as well talk about it.
Naturally alot of people are discussing the upcoming election. Let me start by saying I don't care much who you vote for, but there are two things that are sticking in my craw these days. First of all it's difficult to watch events unfold in other parts of the world and see young people at the forefront: fighting, agitating, risking their lives and I can look around my restaurant tonight and realize that these young people aren't even going to bother to vote. These young people (and some not so young) who take for granted that only the accidental geography of their birth means that they don't have to fight for their rights in the streets. The default cynicism that is so easy is gettin' on my last nerve. I say down with facile cynicism.
Second craw sticker is the people who think the process should come to them. What happened to doing the smallest amount of reading about the parties and the platforms, making an effort to see where you belong in the spectrum. Information comes at us so quickly on so many different platforms but I'm not sure that absolves us from needing to do a bit of the heavy lifting.
That's enough of that particular rant... except to say that some "truisms" really are true: don't talk religion or politics in a bar :)
Weekend off here I come WOOT WOOT !!
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