The Toddlers

[Walterp]

It always puzzled me why some women would, with unerring aim, always chose the ‘wrong’ man; even after disillusionment (often accompanied by a some nasty bruises) she would find quickly another, equally unsuitable, replacement.

We all make mistakes - it is what makes us human - but why repeat them?

The culprit is our inner child - toddlers prioritise immediate feelings over tedious facts. An immediate desire for, say, sweets, overwhelms all other considerations. Emotional needs trump logic, which explains why - although we are meant to learn from experience - we are always prone to repeating the mistakes we have already made. Doubts are suppressed in ourselves by optimism, and in others by bullying.

The UK is an object of ridicule because we have become a nation of toddlers - every time we trust politicians with overly simple solutions, we are letting our emotional needs overrule our rational selves.

There are no simple answers to complicated issues: national identity is not the same as hardline nationalism, violent policy shifts are never benign, and political polarisation entrenches confirmation bias rather than solves it.

The answer is, as it always was, to think more and believe less.

[Acknowledgement to Robert Shrimsley, whose idea this really is]

 

[Ashtree]

There is an overwhelming sense of the toys having been thrown out of the pram!

 

[rob1]

There is an overwhelming sense of the toys having been thrown out of the pram!

yes thats exactly what the remain voters have done, chucked their toys out of the pram and want to stop anyone else getting on with it because they didnt get their way, and plenty of men make the same mistakes over women as women do with men

 

[Clever Dic]

It always puzzled me why some women would, with unerring aim, always chose the ‘wrong’ man; even after disillusionment (often accompanied by a some nasty bruises) she would find quickly another, equally unsuitable, replacement.

We all make mistakes - it is what makes us human - but why repeat them?

The culprit is our inner child - toddlers prioritise immediate feelings over tedious facts. An immediate desire for, say, sweets, overwhelms all other considerations. Emotional needs trump logic, which explains why - although we are meant to learn from experience - we are always prone to repeating the mistakes we have already made. Doubts are suppressed in ourselves by optimism, and in others by bullying.

The UK is an object of ridicule because we have become a nation of toddlers - every time we trust politicians with overly simple solutions, we are letting our emotional needs overrule our rational selves.

There are no simple answers to complicated issues: national identity is not the same as hardline nationalism, violent policy shifts are never benign, and political polarisation entrenches confirmation bias rather than solves it.

The answer is, as it always was, to think more and believe less.

[Acknowledgement to Robert Shrimsley, whose idea this really is]

This may well be correct in parts but certainly not a UK only problem. How many times recently has France elected a President on a wave of popular enthusiasm only months later for the cold reality of his politics to send his popularity plunging the depths. I honestly believe France to be one of the biggest buyers of this story ,wanting change but refusing the creative destruction that it brings.
Do you think possibly Maduro is quite the success he promised ? . In fact most of the time politicians spin a story and the reality works out differently.
I would guess you would struggle to find many cases in Africa or before that in the former communist block where after a revolution by the proletariat they have ended up with the government they thought they were fighting for or electing.
Politicians promise and may even sometimes believe their story but more often than not for multitudes of reasons
They don't deliver.
Scepticism should applied to all evenly .

 

[czechmate]

This may well be correct in parts but certainly not a UK only problem. How many times recently has France elected a President on a wave of popular enthusiasm only months later for the cold reality of his politics to send his popularity plunging the depths. I honestly believe France to be one of the biggest buyers of this story ,wanting change but refusing the creative destruction that it brings.
Do you think possibly Maduro is quite the success he promised ? . In fact most of the time politicians spin a story and the reality works out differently.
I would guess you would struggle to find many cases in Africa or before that in the former communist block where after a revolution by the proletariat they have ended up with the government they thought they were fighting for or electing.
Politicians promise and may even sometimes believe their story but more often than not for multitudes of reasons
They don't deliver.
Scepticism should applied to all evenly .

Communist party is way up there again in the cz rep

 

[Clever Dic]

Communist party is way up there again in the cz rep

My 2 Czech guys are are not rushing home . ( I hope) .

 

[czechmate]

My 2 Czech guys are are not rushing home . ( I hope) .

Funny that, I rather hope my wife doesn't either

 

[Henarar]

Funny that, I rather hope my wife doesn't either

Is she not home at the moment?

 

[Danllan]

Aren't toddlers the ones who sulk like hell and have tantrums when they don't get what they want?

 

[Ashtree]

Aren't toddlers the ones who sulk like hell and have tantrums when they don't get what they want?

Absolutely. The worst types sulk into their teens and right up to their eighties.
Only have to look at the Tory eurosceptics to know that. Spent the last four decades and more fighting the legitimate government, PM and Tory leader in their never ending wailing tantrum.
Thing is though, now the have got their way, they are still tackling the PM from behind and setting up political land mines left and right.
I know you are a fan of capital punishment , but shouldn’t you start at the ground and try get corporal punishment back first. Those tantrum Tories could do with a few lashes .. you know, for their own good.

 

[Danllan]

Absolutely. The worst types sulk into their teens and right up to their eighties.
Only have to look at the Tory eurosceptics to know that. Spent the last four decades and more fighting the legitimate government, PM and Tory leader in their never ending wailing tantrum.
Thing is though, now the have got their way, they are still tackling the PM from behind and setting up political land mines left and right.
I know you are a fan of capital punishment , but shouldn’t you start at the ground and try get corporal punishment back first. Those tantrum Tories could do with a few lashes .. you know, for their own good.

Sour grapes , and just more sulking. My little girl 'punishes' me by taking her socks off (sometimes biting them ) and then throwing them at me; you just keep writing such drivel, same principal though

I am not a 'fan' of capital punishment, I do think it should be a sentencing option.