-I pay 90 cents for this.-

Ok this is getting really irksome. There is yet another inane article in the Sunday Times 'Think' section by the same person. When the director of the National Neuroscience Institute first started writing there i genuinely thought, hey this might be good. Maybe she can write some really thought provoking articles about the state of neuroscience and its intriguing findings. Instead we got garbage like 'Why I Choose to be Single'. Who. The. Fuck. Cares. It took up almost the entire page in the 'Think' section. Your personal life is hardly something i want to be thinking about. And there'll be this moral lesson inserted at the end for us dimwits to learn. In this case-"I would advise young men and women not to delay getting married and having children." Thanks im persuaded by your clearly wise advice. Apparently argumentation isn't necessary for some.

I always look forward to articles by Jenadas Devan but they are being published more sparingly now. His writings actually had intellectual depth and appeal. Unlike him, she once wrote an entire anecdote about some sort of speeding incident in the United States where the policeman surprisingly turned out to be an agreeable fella because he agreed that Michael Fay should have been caned. At the end of the thing it was written that there are Americans who feel that 'a compromise in personal freedom to prevent anti-social behaviour is necessary for the welfare of society.' Is that it? What was the bloody point of the whole thing? Yet another teaching lesson for us? Justified by an unidentified solitary American!? The articles are always terrible arguments or opinions i couldn't give a shit about. This is stuff that should go on a blog not the newspaper. The academics and writers in that section usually write lucidly and argumentatively and that section is now being hijacked by this crap.

Well the latest article is a gem in comparison. Its about how there's a bright side to our worst recession ever. 'Economic hardship can teach us to be resilient'. Come on. Enough of this already. We get it and expect it from politicians. Its probably even necessary from politicians. We dont need it from any other sources. 'Perhaps this economic crisis may be a blessing in disguise' Perhaps.. Oh you've lost your job too? Let's get out the fireworks and party the night away. Ive heard its a blessing in disguise.

It's ridiculous, sure make the best out of a bad situation, but don't pretend like its a damn pathway to success. Don't get me wrong optimism is fine. But articles of little merit are not, especially when they appear time after fucking time.