Wednesday, February 15, 2012

STORY OF THE DAY - EQUAL TREATMENT

Why do they treat us like children? they
said & I said why do you treat them like
adults? & their eyes opened wide & they
began to laugh & talk all at once &
suddenly everything looked possible
again.
The story of the day brings to mind a group of so-called adults who treat other adults as children, which is a caution to all of us not to treat the so-called adults like adults, unless we like being treated like children.

From StoryPeople.

4 comments:

  1. Mimi, but who could you possibly mean? ...

    Actually I really don't know - there could be a few contenders, in fact. CofE authorities? ... The Vatican? ... Republicans? ...

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  2. The Vatican and the RC bishops here in the US, with their cries of persecution because health insurance plans must provide contraceptives, are the persons I had in mind. Then too, the two archbishops in the CofE seem to be taking lessons from Rome.

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  3. I would have guessed you meant the archbishops myself, Mimi, so, I suppose I was wrong. In fact though the large number of people in positions of authority to whom this story could be applied is really rather depressing.

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  4. Too true, Cathy. Various groups of patronizing figures of authority come to mind rather quickly, one after another.

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