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Old saw* –
‘The wise old owl sat in the oak.
The more he saw, the less he spoke
The less he spoke. the more he heard.
Why can’t we be like this wise old bird?
(* Among various synonyms for “saying”, dictionaries from 18th century singled out “saw” as a vulgar, uneducated wisdom, often based in superstitions.
I think more likely it was comment from some common person about something they knew well but more educated types held them in low esteem. Those on top never want to admit they could have something to learn from the less educated lower classes.)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018886425/listen-more-and-talk-less-stfu-a-new-book-by-dan-lyons Apr.17/23
In the new book STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World, he writes about the many excellent reasons to listen more than you speak.
Alcoholics and overtalkers have a bit in common, Lyons says, with both types making up about 5 percent of the population and having a propensity for self-destruction.
Like alcohol, overtalking can be a good thing to a certain point – and an aid to popularity and good storytelling.
A glimmer of good news, drink it in as we need it.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2305/S00415/youth-drinking-long-term-decline.htm
Dr Ball compared research from 2001 to 2022 and found that there is a significant improvement in the way the students are drinking. In 2001 more than half of those in secondary school by year 10 were regularly drinking and going to parties. Today only one of sixty four year 10 students interviewed reported drinking alcohol socially and more had never had more than a few sips of alcohol.
Dr Ball has said that this change in attitude is complex and included social media and spending time online was replacing the drinking and partying of teens from 20 years ago. There was also a stronger awareness of alcohol related health risk.
“This research reinforces the positive change what we have seen for some time, with fewer students under 18 drinking alcohol and those who do are drinking less hazardously”, says NZABC executive director Virginia Nicholls.
“Adolescent drinking has declined dramatically over the past 15 – 20 years in New Zealand and also in other OECD countries”, Mrs Nicholls said.
Is social media and the internet the new drug though?
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2305/S00038/on-americas-plunge-into-religious-extremism.htm
Despite the moral panic about trans women in dressing rooms there has been a similar dearth of example. Going by the E Jean Carroll case, women would be more at risk in their dressing rooms from Donald Trump than they would be from a trans predator.
So women have to be put out of countenance in reality, embarrassed or attacked, before anyone takes them seriously Gordon Campbell! Perhaps we need some strong-arm femme gangs annoying men. As the vulgar say ‘They don’t like it up them, do they.’
Women are much less likely to be perpetrators in social misbehaviour, except perhaps domestic violence which can heat up both sexes. The women I know enjoy going to a place to ‘relieve’ themselves where they feel comfortable and which is peaceful and respecting, and hope that all the other women feel the same. No foot pedal cameras looking up at pubes by males or trans who might not be sure what the other sex looks like.
Much of the problem would be lessened if youngsters could talk about sex with well-behaved adults and look at pictures of their naked bodies of their age in books so both sexes know what they look like. Also talk about the rise of the sex urge in teens and how passion also deep kissing is an IED which should be treated carefully. Restraint encouraged rather than prohibition or proscription, would help us a lot in so many ways – not just in our sexuality.
I seem to remember that the USA led the western world in births outside marriage for a long time. NZ came second but I think that has improved but probably because of more use of contraceptives rather than a loss of interaction. 14 years is fairly common for a start age I think. More acceptance of our whole selves and getting youngsters to plan their future and mindfully think about their chosen sexual partners and when; a case for discrimination here. l
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