“It’s all good.” If there is any phrase that encapsulates Latitude it is that one. Make sure you get the emphasis right with the stress on the middle word. “It’s all good.” On numerous times I heard braying pseudo-London voices saying: “It’s all good.” Chatting as they sat shitting their guts in the foetid stench of the army toilets, the phrase would burble up from the collective unconscious: IT’S ALL GOOD. Seasick Steve, a crapulous old authentic bluesman, couldn’t introduce a song without repeating the phrase de jour. For myself, I find the phrase problematic.
In one sense, “it’s all good” represents a zen acceptance of reality as it is (although it might better formulated as “it all is”). You have to admire people who can put gloss over any issue with the idea that it is all ultimately good.
In another sense, “it’s all good” is a confession that you lack the discrimination to differentiate between things that are great and things that are mediocre or inferior. It’s all good is the clarion call of the mediocre age! We are an age swamped with choice, no one has the ability to focus on the differences so we optimistically claim that “it’s all good”.
Worse still, “it’s all good” puts a sickening twist on what are already horrific circumstances. For example, imagine the following confession: “I was abused daily as a child, by wife was killed after I forgot to turn the gas off, and I’ve just been made bankrupt . . . but it’s all good.”
What I’m basically saying is that if you use the phrase “it’s all good” you are an idiot.
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