Anal Retention is a particularly British Disease.
It is an obsessive belief in one’s own limited perspective of life.
It is an over-attachment to one’s own ‘stuff’ and an aversion to de-cluttering one’s ‘baggage’.
This results in the syndrome of ‘head stuck up rectum’.
Without the ability to extract one’s head from the comfort zone of one’s own rectum, it is impossible to see the bigger picture of life with clarity.
When contagious, others are encouraged to conform to a similarly obtrusive view of life.
It breeds a belief that even though my life is not perfect, it is the best that is available to myself and everyone else.
It is driven by my belief that I am normal and if only everyone else would share my perspective, life would be wonderful.
It is the denial that anything bad could ever be caused by me.
It is the belief that the devil is in the detail when all the time it was in ‘de’ tail.