The best type of vindication is when it comes by itself, when there was nothing you could do to make it come. When events for other folks show your idea was right, or when folks who have not heard a controversial thought from you come up with it themselves. Because that is objective evidence for its reasonability. It corroborates your reasoning.
Yesterday's ELAS meet let me see other folks, by themselves, producing and sharing the thought that baths don't feel quite logically clean, because you are covering yourself all over in the same water as the worst of your body. Shit actually mentioned. How the unpleasantness of your body's dirtiest point, the back passage, is in the same water as the rest of you. Added to that they take up more time. This about bath water is against hygienic common sense and makes them a less attractive choice than other washing methods: including, than either showers or strip washes at the sink.
This when I had never mentioned baths, so that it came at no prompting from me. Yet it is exactly the same insight as I argued in teenage to the staff of my adolescent unit, to their great hostility and contrary dogmatic certainty. Harvey Jones Adolescent Unit, Cardiff, 1980s, proved wrong. Proved that thoughts they arrogantly rubbished as personally aberrant and wrong are there in other people's common sense reasoning. following logically from simple factual observation.
Authoritarians towards youth are found wrong again as they always are.
Maurice Frank17 Jul 2022
