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The case needs to be remade for full-on emotional repression. I call for a total and complete shutdown of showy, annoying, whingy displays of emotion in public until we work out what is going on.
Are you sad? Are you 'heartbroken'?
Keep it to yourself. I don't need to know
Are you sad? Are you 'heartbroken'?
Keep it to yourself. I don't need to know
People who think it's appropriate to start publicly talking about how anxious or scared or whatever they are always attention-seeking. It's always about them, their problems, their emotional incontinence. Inflicting it on everyone else is simply bad manners. Cry on your own time
My theory is also that emotional repression is a major factor behind cultural creativity. Great artists sublimate their repressed emotions into their work. I don't think it's a coincidence that we live in an era characterised by both cultural mediocrity AND emotional incontinence
I will not be satisfied until we live in a culture where one's reflex reaction to the prospect of, say, a dogfight against a Messerschmidt 109 is to have a cup of tea, do a crossword, go and vomit with fear (discreetly) into a toilet, quip to your mates, then fly into battle.
Have you just had your arm blown off by an artillery shell? Ok, well in that case I will allow an expression of surprise and maybe pain. But even then, for heaven's sake don't make a fuss about it. The war isn't all about you. Have a brandy and a sit down and maybe see a doctor
I think the attitude I want to see can be summed up by Harold MacMillan, who, when severely injured by enemy fire at the Somme, found shelter in a shell hole. Did he whinge? No, he gritted his teeth, took out his copy of Aeschylus in the original Greek, and had a quiet read
