Brown or Wet

It’s a trend.

In the Guardian there’s dozens of articles written anonymously by UK scientists, and now their spouses as well, whining about all aspects of their lives.

Once a revered profession, it is now of diminishing social and commercial importance and constrained by guild-like structures that enshrine poor social skills.

It is also inhabited by idio savants that cannot reason themselves out of their own unhappiness, or a wet paper bag.

In that last statement there lurks a root cause.