Experience teaches me that emotions always play catch-up with intellect. Some of us seem to believe that whilst militarised youth can kill at a legally frightening age, anyone who looks under 25 and wishes to buy alcohol in a supermarket needs to prove they are over 18.
Some of us even seem to believe that we are old enough to vote governments in at the age of 16.
Experience teaches me, however, that emotions play as important a part in our ability to understand and define the world as does our intellect. And where emotions indeed play catch-up, space needs to be given to the precious beings that are our young people to grow with all the time they deserve.
Experience teaches me that just as young children deserve a better education than that which aims to squeeze them into little office worker boxes way before their time, so young people deserve a better deal than that which aims to force them into being elders before their feelings may allow.
Yes. I fear you are right. My English is currently convoluting terribly. I am struggling with the above concepts, both emotionally and intellectually.
These subjects are dear to my heart because they are currently so close to home.
Politics and life are not only questions of thought but also issues that relate to the import of feelings. We cannot legislate effectively without taking into account feelings, yet so much of what we do is based only on the quantifiable.
We must think again if we want to act with accuracy.
In the private as well as the public sphere.
It's now three o'clock.
Time for the paellada.
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