Democratic Murder
The perversion of democracy continues as if we are all stupid! Israel and USA are the champion perverts, no doubt, but the rest of us satellites od the US dying empire are not far behind.
Damned Date
Sir K is the most un-inspiring, truthless, gutless, wooden man in Britain. Today he says UK will not have to choose between USA and EU, in full knowledge that he is talking total nonsense - we all know who will tell him what to do and how to do it!
Nurnberg 2
Will we finally see a Nurnberg 2 to bring Israeli war criminals to justice? I doubt it!
Bad Times
Four years of Trump assisted by another man-child are unberable! I wish we could tturn America off! The world is tired of them!
Anniversary of Shame
There is one year since Israel launched the bloodiest genocide since WW2 and they are still going! Gaza is flattened. 40,000 dead among whom 14,000 are children!
Easy Anger
Unfortunately, most people aren't as liberal as you might think or expect in 21st century; even worse, it is so much easier to just be angry rather than try to understand what the causes of your unhappiness are... it is is so much easier to be angry about people who are not like you! Sadly! This what a monster like Trump knows very well. A narcissist like hime only cares about himself but he knows how to stir people's groins! For the sake of decency and humanity don't lend him your brain and heart. He only wants your anger, not your welfare or thoughts. He hates it when you think.... so please think!
the coming storm
I've been glued to BBC sounds all day listening to an excellent series - The Coming Storm, which takes a deep dive into outlandish conspiracy theories that seem to have gripped America at all levels of its national life but especially positics.
What is Europe?
What IS Europe? Are all our noble traditions, philosophy, art, architecture, freedoms, etc., in perpetual threat of #fascism, which always lurks lurks in the shadows, waiting to rise again, each time the 'noble' Europeans feel at risk of losing control and domination?? With the far right vampires rising all over the continent, the signs are ominous depressing! Are we returning to 1930s?? I hope not, but it's not looking good!... although I am pretty sure that if we beat it once, we will beat it again.
Failed Humanity
Future generations will condemn us as failed humanity for allowing Israel commit mass murder for 70 odd years. Israel makes me ashemed to be human. So does the UK gov. As for the American gov, we can't really expect much.
Palestine Will Be Free
three months
I;ve been back for thrtee months now and still not feels like i'm not really here! Everything seems so depressing, decaying... what has happened to the this country (and, probably, the rest of Europe? It is very hard to tell but the feeling of hopelessness, anger and anxiety are in the air! I've had no desire to go out and take part in the life of this great city, although, for how longer it will remain great is questionable!
Noose Options
Is the end nigh?
Commentators of all colours and persuasions are racing in predicting the fallof the swine. Tory knives are being sharpened.
The Shropshire Test
The clown loses a true blue seat. Tory Party in neurotic jitters. They will always care more about Shropshire than Yorkshire.
a little bit of context
It is very easy to be angry about Brexit. It’s very easy to despair about the most monumental act of self harm in history. It’s very easy to pack up and leave….. but, like everything else, Brexit needs to be put into context!
We live in a strange time in history, especially in the so called West, which seems to have been stripped of any belief, ideals or sense of belonging, where an aggressive form individualism has become the norm. We are constantly bombarded with simulated realities in which the individual has to fight the world single-handedly under immense pressure to be ‘happy’… outwardly, anyway. This happiness is more or less comes to very basic aim: validation by conforming to the norms of superimposed consumerism.
Since the 60s, and much more aggressively since the 80s, a weird post-modernist culture has enveloped every aspect of life. It’s become a firm of hyper-reality, which blurs the lines and aims to be more exciting than reality! It’s a culture that has increasingly become more voyeuristic, snoopy, judgemental… conformist and isolating in equal measure, where struggling individuals are constantly bombarded with images and messages which simulate a reality in which we have to achieve, grow, stand out in a world of unlimited possibilities!!! In so many ways, people are forced to live a double life: an inner, hidden life full of anxieties, questions, dilemmas… and a public life in which we are constantly beaming with ‘happiness and achievement’… weakness is either punished or fetishised in a perpetual state of victimhood. We have become a schizophrenic society, full of confusing and conflicting images that so many people are finding difficult to navigate and you can’t blame them.
It is clear that wild capitalism propagated by Neo-Liberals as the new religion that has no other ideal but personal wealth has failed in its own game. This cut-throat capitalism that only believes in the sanctity of the markets has created a culture of vulgarity, spite and fear. We have stopped believing in or striving to build a better future collectively… all we are forced to believe is unbridled consumerism that is both ugly and soulless…
So how is a struggling guy on minimum wage in Rochdale or Scunthorpe going to fit in this brave new world? Well, he isn’t meant to fit in. He or she is surplus to requirement. He or she has failed to be happy and it must be someone’s fault - a perfect territory for little fascists like Nigel Farage and a shameless opportunist like Boris Johnson to step in and offer them a very simple solution - leave EU so that we can build a Britannic Utopia of milk and honey where English people can be proud again (falsely creating a narrative that this is currently not possible)!! Brexit is a particularly British response to a global problem of an economic and cultural ideology, it would be unfair to say that it’s worse in the UK… Fascism is creeping back in all kinds of forms in Europe and in America. Russia has already fallen into the claws of rabid nationalism, which is pure fascism in all but name..
I wish I could guess how it will all go… it feels we are in the edge of a very deep ravine but it also feels like we just need to reach the next turn that will take us into a new, fairer, kinder, reasonable future.
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