If you knock someone over in a restaurant, you’ve knocked someone over in a restaurant, but what if the person you knocked over had a gun and was going to shoot someone?1
[I wrote this only earlier this year, but events have overtaken this post. Please see…..]
I struggled to decide on a tittle for this, another short Roger Hallam post. I looked back at my recent ramblings and noticed they all seem to be about me, and I wanted to make a break from that, but… ah, what the hell?
There’s a JSO meeting tonight, that I’m hoping to get to. The last one was wonderful, we were cosseted and valued. We were treated as though we were real human beings. They seem to be announced at short notice, but I think it’s worth changing my schedule.
Why do I want to get involved?
It isn’t to save the world, for me that would be a secondary issue. I guess primarily, for me, its about feeling some sort of identity, and belonging, and definitely human contact. I don’t align with the groups aims completely. For me the word “Just” is very problematic. It has two meanings; Only, or easily, or recently, but also, righteously. I guess the group’s founder’s are aware of the double meaning, and think it helpful, but I am troubled by the first meaning. I don’t think it is often helpful to belittle something that anyone might find difficult, and I don’t think many people consider the second meaning, which I almost omitted to state is my attraction to the cause. ie The obvious injustice.
As the group dance as they do/and will, with our legal system, government, and establishment, the second meaning of “just” comes to the fore.
I read that it is connected to the 14th century word Joust, and therefore also 16th century Jostle.
Anyway, for the moment they seem to be the only players in town, and not wishing to sit around waiting for another group with which I can align more closely, I’m on board.
- Roger Hallam, as quoted in the New Yorker by Anna Russell ↩︎
schnark.home.blog 
You seem to have found a good place for you. Great.
Gwen.
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