Becoming Unhinged
by Terry Field in France ruminating in his garden
Watching Britain change from afar
is an unpleasant experience. It is hard to watch the failure of the political
structures to both represent and be themselves modified in order to reflect the
needs and expectations of the society.
A prime minister will be elected by
about 160,000 members of the Conservative Party to, by all accounts, remove
Britain from the European Union with no agreed treaty, thus removing the
country from all its global trade agreements, and disconnecting it from, quite
literally, thousands of legal structures that support and facilitate all the
international and many internal national functions and actions on which the
population depends.
In addition, even at this stage
after three years of social psychosis and ineffective government, the poor of
the country have become relatively and absolutely poorer to a degree not seen
in the last 58 years of recorded data.
In my last blog, I referred to
the potency of the fascistic method, defining it quite closely. I consider
present events to be a full justification of my suggestion that it is the
dominant political method and force found in present politics inn Britain.
I repeat my warning made some
time ago. States can and do fail, and from that failure, recovery in the
current global condition may become not possible. I consider that Britain is in
real danger of experiencing this dreadful reality. The mania that drives this
isolated and deluded lunacy will dissipate when catastrophic failure results.
But recovery will then be extremely difficult. NO rational, skilled informed
person possessed of real knowledge that I know of, and I seek for one with
zeal, feels that what Britain is doing is other than deranged.
Racism is tiresome and infantile.
But so is the cult of the false victim.
Many of us have watched the
appearance of the small number of new, radical, very culturally and socially
challenging members of the House of Representatives with amusement as
foreigners, and with stressed concern of one is an American citizen. It has
been interesting to see persons described as ‘black’ or ‘of colour’ ‘beating up’
their democratic party ‘colleagues’ for not being sufficiently ‘supportive’ of
their needs. It has been a curiosity to see some large numbers of Americans on
the ‘left’ of their local politics demanding vast ‘reparations’ for damage done
to them over and since the period of slavery.
Watching a woman try to demolish
the quite harmless Mr. Biden for not fully and supporting the
attack on local state senators when she considered he should have done so
raises the question in the mind of this, and I suspect very many observing
foreigners. ‘Why and when did this hysterical rage and sense of unsatisfied
entitlement appear when there was no such sense expressed in prior generations,
during the time when injustice was, by any measure, far more severe and painful
than it is now?’ Adults never used to behave like this. But where are adults
now?
This writer suggests it is a
false mania, a false rage, an inauthentic sense of victim hood. It seems to be
all of a piece with the free untrammeled ability of people in the Anglo-Saxon
world to express personal pain simply because the social mores make such
personal expression permissible. Excess
personal liberty born of the particular socio-economic cultural and economic
circumstances has fed into, and been amplified by, the poison of universal
social media. The collapse of work and its replacement by work-posture behavior
adds to the sense of personal free choice and isolation from consequences. All
this feeds the personal Ego, and infects it with a mania of unhappy isolated
grievance.
In such a condition, and where
political responses to new socio-economic states have in the past taken a
century to develop (an example, industrialization began around the start of
the 19th century, but the Labour Party only appeared as a political
force in England in the early 20th century) one can only conclude
that the claims of oppression, of ‘racesim’, or any other silly ‘ism’ and all
the other white noise of enraged accusation is simply displacement for the real
problem.
The problem that the physical and cultural condition of the old
advanced world has changed out of recognition, together with the shattered
environment, but whose political and social ideas of how to live are redundant
and irrelevant.
In a world where AI removes all work after the coming fifty
years, referring to socialism, Marx, Das Capital and Engels is a little like an
engineer referring to the wooded wagon wheel as a solution to linear induction
train systems.
We are like children in a playing
ground. We do silly things, of no worth, and why? Because outside the wire
fence of the playing field the real world of which we seem to no nothing at all
is racing ahead.
I am living in a time of social infantilism.
With men largely de-sexed and emasculated, whilst in much of the West, a good
proportion of them, in some countries almost half of them are infertile, and
women are behaving with such detached pain and silliness as to make one weep.
And all the time climate change
offers a now unavoidable and very rapid return of ages when we had no means of
surviving at all.
Vote Democrat; Vote Republican.
Vote Labour; vote Tory, Vote Le Pen; vote En Marche.
With 76% of global insect life
gone in less than 40 years, a blink of the eye, and reducing by 2.5% PER YEAR –
who the bloody hell cares!!???
