Terry Field in his Garden

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 19^th century, but the Labour Party only appeared as a political force in England in the early 20^th 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!!???