IN PRAISE OF GRUMPINESS
I guess our strange ole world needs a bit of the grumpy here and there. Where would those seven little dwarfs be without Grumpy ( or the dopey, doc and sleepy) ? It takes all types to make our strange little world as they say. Let us celebrate each and every seven dwarfnesses at work I say. OK so far so good.

Now there is something more. To be grumpy is also a sign of feeling and a sign of a kind of heaviness that balances out any lightness of being for itself alone. Grumpy OK. In any society that is hell bent on indifference or mere irony then to be grumpy means much. To be grumpy displays a feeling that is not indifferent. Grumpiness is one part of a Moral Culture.

But praise too to ole Happy and Sneezy et al.
Difference without indifference : oh yes.
Moral Culture?
Now that is a term most fancy fashionable and "Guardian" types avoid.
Wonder why I do.