Perception of my intelligence falls further Posted on October 18, 2017 The trains are still suffering delays and so they are even more crowded than usual. A lot of people pushing, I express my disgust at them in the form of various micro-aggressions in order to make them feel as uncomfortable as possible.
Work got off to a terrible start, my team coach realised I didn’t know basic policy when I asked her a question. She looked annoyed and disgusted. Still talking to the woman sitting next to me, it’s her always initiating and I can’t carry the conversation far. I need to find some common ground but we seem like such different people. Both of these interactions have caused me continual stress. I’m talking to myself again.
I think more people have quit. I’m feeling more alone.
Watched “The Apprentice” at home. No words were exchanged with my sisters. My mother asked me about my self-harming due to having seen a story about it on television.
Michael Taylor
Yeah, although my overall impression is sort of summed up by the bit where the former British MP says "Mrs. Thatcher was an empiricist compared to some of these people" Have to admire Muldoon because he stood up to the tide of history even if he was doomed to lose in the end. I mean, if you look at the Callaghan government here it's basically remembered like Muldoon's last term there - but the Callaghan government compromised, it basically accepted monetarism*, higher unemployment and so on. Tony Benn had a Muldoonish strategy but it was rejected. But does Callaghan get any "credit" for being closer to the modern consensus? Not really. He's remembered just as badly as "overspending regulatory socialist", whereas Muldoon going completely off the deep end and demanding a wage and price freeze seems almost remembered fondly by comparison (by certain parts of the population.) because of the crozier elements of the world that preceded it. (i.e. stable employment.)
Though that could be in part because Muldoon had a support base, whereas the Callaghan government is hated by everyone. (Bennites argue it was too right wing, Thatcherites argue it was too left wing.)
*In his most famous speech Callaghan even claimed that every time the government increased spending/lower taxes to stimulate demand and reduce unemployment in a recession, higher inflation followed, then higher unemployment again. Don't have the figures off the top of my head, but I believe for the 1956 and 1961 recession this was not the case. Only in the 1970s recessions did it arise.
