If you change a lightbulb...
Mood: Time to leave work, Monday's over, turn out the lights
Listening to: The wriggle in the head of the workers, going home before their houses are dark.
You take the old bulb out and replace it with a new one. It works. Sometimes it blows up immediately. Sometimes it lasts a long time.
Is the bulb faulty if it breaks, or is it the socket, the electricity supply or dodgy wiring?
When people blow up, how do you know it's about them not coping, or about the world not coping with them? To be mad is to be different from the norm. To be brilliant is to be different from the norm.
What is the answer, whose fault is it when a person's light goes poof? Society expects us to cope, to be 'normal' to have all our argon in place and to maintain a steady temperature. Whack up the current and watch out for the weakness.
When it happens, and you know it will, who are you going to blame?
When weak people snap should we beat them, throw them out with the garbage? Perhaps we should feel sorry for them. Perhaps we should help them cope and grow stronger.
It's not the strong who make the world their own, it's the weak ones that let it happen.
What kind of lightbulb are you?
Press the switch and see.
