LIVELIHOOD AND POLITICS, RELIGION AND SEX

LIVELIHOOD VS POLITICS, RELIGION AND SEX

An etiquette web site has been found to be advising its trainees not to discuss politics, religion and sex. According to them, "weather condition" is the best suggested opening, as it makes the listener comfortable.

"Don't discuss politics, religion, sex" recitation has arisen probably because people are fed up of the politics, religion and sex.

Or probably because, discusssion of these subjects resulted in heated inconclusive arguments.

Or because, these subjects lead to personally irksome questions requiring some self-regulation and soul searching.

Or because the trainers felt that if people discuss PRS without bounds, they neglect acquiring and using livelihood skills; then their families would suffer.

This abhorrence of PRS may not be a newly germinated sapling of today. In 1774, Oliver Goldsmith presented his play "She stoops to conquer". The heroine's father Mr. Hardcastle was a squire. He was awaiting the arrival of the proposed groom for his daughter, to arrive from London. The youth and his friend arrived, but they were misled to believe that the Hardcastle's was an inn and mistook Mr. Hardcastle to be an inn-keeper. Hardcastle also acted like an inn-keeper. His dialog:-

"I fretted myself about the mistakes of the Government, like other people, but finding myself everyday grow more angry and the Government growing no better, I left it to mend itself. Since that, I no more trouble my head about Hyder Ally, or Ally Cawn, than about Ally Croker. Sir, my service to you ...."

Baiting Bush or Clinton or XYZ makes little difference. The Governments are incorrigible. The same applies to religions also. They refuse to correct themselves. The only thing that remains is "sex". There is already a downpour of it in the net.

Now see the graph:

(This blogger is not pledging not to write about PRS in future).