We Don't Need to be Balanced People

We just need to be around other people.
Over the years, I've been told many times that my writing is too extreme. I don't often take a moderating approach choosing instead to make brazen accusations and less than charitable criticisms.
I'm told that the better way is one of balance--that honey catches more flies than vinegar and so forth. It's the idea of letting the pendulum slow to a comfortable pace without wildly swinging in people's faces. Perhaps a sacred cow or two needs to be toppled, but this can be done just as easily with a gentle push as it can a baseball bat.
Real dumb wisdom.
Apart from the fact that a diet of honey will make you diabetic, balance is only good for maintaining the status quo.
When my daughter runs down the sidewalk, my wife and I remind her where the boundaries are. And like any toddler, she occasionally ignores us and continues frolicking along like the fraggle she is. We could keep telling her to come back for another twenty seconds,…
Over the years, I've been told many times that my writing is too extreme. I don't often take a moderating approach choosing instead to make brazen accusations and less than charitable criticisms.
I'm told that the better way is one of balance--that honey catches more flies than vinegar and so forth. It's the idea of letting the pendulum slow to a comfortable pace without wildly swinging in people's faces. Perhaps a sacred cow or two needs to be toppled, but this can be done just as easily with a gentle push as it can a baseball bat.
Real dumb wisdom.
Apart from the fact that a diet of honey will make you diabetic, balance is only good for maintaining the status quo.
When my daughter runs down the sidewalk, my wife and I remind her where the boundaries are. And like any toddler, she occasionally ignores us and continues frolicking along like the fraggle she is. We could keep telling her to come back for another twenty seconds,…