To reach the heights of hypocrisy is harder than you think, there are so many hypocrites around it is hard to compete, but don’t give up yet, you can be hypocritical without even realising it, without even being able to spell it.
Did you sign that petition to save orangutans, without even knowing how to spell orangatangs? Good, but when you went shopping for your peanut butter you picked the one with palm oil in. At least you bought a compassionate mouse trap at the hardware shop, remembered to check it when you got up and tip toed into the garden in your dressing gown to release the dear little mouse through the fence into next door. Then you had a cooked breakfast; so a mouse’s life is worth more than a pig’s?
You signed the petition against using fossil fuels, but had a lovely day out on a heritage steam railway. Pondering on trains made you decide to sell your car, but luckily your partner also owns a car as you were very grateful when they drove you to the emergency weekend dentist when you had that abscess.
However, you are feeling extra virtuous because you were part of the Extinction Rebellion protest and your picture appeared on Facebook, with at least two friends recognising you. Of course you had not actually intended to sit on Waterloo Bridge with the protesters, but were trying to make your way home after visiting your grandmother in Saint Thomas’ Hospital; as the buses could not run across the bridge it was easier to walk across and catch a different bus. Then Isabella from work spotted you and enveloped you in flowers and kisses and introduced you to all her green friends and somehow you couldn’t get away…
If you haven’t already had a go at playing the Gaia game – Snakes and Stairs, why not try it?
https://tidalscribe.wordpress.com/2018/10/20/silly-saturday-snakes-and-stairs/
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Oh my!!! I am a hypocrite and didn’t even realize it! Aaarrrgggghhhh! Tomorrow! I will change my ways tomorrow! Or … um … maybe the day after?
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Yes aren’t we all – I am hoping someone will pop up to claim they are not!
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Would you believe them? I think we are all human …
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Palm oil is yet another product similar to Avocados and Almonds who’s damage to the environment is near incalculable. So sad.
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Yes, people have always eaten and used what grows, but what starts off as farming can turn into mass destruction.
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Oh, Janet, you really do write amusing and thought provoking posts. I do try not to be a hypocrite but one also has to live and earn a living in this modern world of ours which makes it quite challenging to always make the choices we should and would like too.
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Thanks Robbie, it’s easier to write about than actually do and the list of what you shouldn’t eat or do seems to get longer all the time. Our consumption of water and power certainly went down when everyone had left home!
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It’s not possible to get along without everyday hypocrisy. I think we should all at least recognize it in ourselves and at least try to change some of our actions to suit our supposed principles. Amusing and astute post, Janet!
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Thanks Audrey, we probably would not recognise a world without hypocrisy.
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