Two months ago

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Date: 25 April 2007 16:13:57

I was called a hypocrite.

Of course it wasn't phrased in that way but a much gentler statement which, nevertheless, had that thrust. And it's an allegation I happily plead guilty too.

Hypocrisy is one of the worst crimes in the confused, sentimentalised befuddlement that passes for morality in our (21st century UK) culture. And while others' hypocrisy can annoy me sometimes I can also see its positive side, and feel almost unique in this.

What is hypocrisy? It's saying one thing and doing another. It's saying "be good" but actually being bad. Well, think of the converse: that would be saying "do as I do". It would be saying "I'm bad, so you be bad too". It's saying I have no aspirations to be better than I am. It's saying I'm happy with my pathetic, deceitful, hurtful, manipulative, passive-aggressive behaviour. Well, I'm not. I do one thing and I don't like it, so I'd recommend to you, as I do to myself, that you don't do as I do. I'd like to be different, but if that's not possible then at least, please, will you be different and better.