YOU can talk about new year resolutions until Shane Warne gets a wrinkle but it's time we recognised all our resolutions are part of a greater inconvenient truth: Western civilisation is adrift on a rising tide of bullshit.
Back in the '70s (the good old days) during hours of physical work with my old man he was fond of dropping phrases like "say nothing and saw wood".
It upset him greatly that I chose to go to university instead of remaining a carpet layer.
Dad believed in productivity, not talk, and he feared I would turn into some flabby weirdo who did nothing but smoke dope and quote Proust at dinner parties.
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