Judgement

1. Cancel Culture:
2. a social environment in which publicly boycotting or withdrawing support for people, organizations, etc. regarded as promoting socially unacceptable beliefs is widespread practice:

   "there's a middle ground between cancel culture and free speech absolutism"
3. The other day, I asked the two girls what they understood about the 'cancel culture'.  I had just read about someone called Lizzo, a singer who had 'bullied' her dancers.  At the time I thought well everyone can seem to come on the internet and moan about whatever.  

Phillip Schofield has been cancelled recently as has J.K. Rowling, one for unspecified wrongdoing with a young minor and the other for her views on transgender.

If you have followed me for sometime you would find I hate cruelty of any kind, I am immediately on the side of the underdog.  But the people chosen to be cancelled are often celebrities and will then have this black mark hanging over their heads. Do they deserve them? well I am not Solomon but  I dislike intensely the ability of scores of voices on the internet to give voice to nastiness.

The Morrison man has just been with our shopping at 7 am no less, Matilda and I have unpacked it. The cat is zooming around like a mad creature, forget her age of 19 years, she is energetic, demanding and fussy and settling in perfectly well.

I did read something that pleased me though.  Trump on his appearance in court was brought down to ordinary status by the female judge who kept him waiting for 20 minutes, who treated him the same as she would treat any other 'felon' - sweet.

Also read the long article on this very interesting book called,  Looking For Eileen - How George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story by Anna Funder.

Rescuing those who have helped their loved ones through their writing careers is not very common.  And Anna Funder mentions the fact of culture cancellation, this time for George Orwell, should his actions be read as wrong through her book.  She is not condemning him only bringing to our attention the role that his wife Eileen played in his life, which somehow he never mentioned!

He was, as I keep reminding everyone, only acting as the society round him acted.  It was normal behaviour in his time, we cannot bring the lens of today to judge past behaviour.  History is already written and cannot be undone.