Empire and the English. There’s a sucking hole of nihilism at the heart of English culture. The ruling ethic has always been ‘dominate’ and profit and exploit. For the mother of parliaments. No other ethics are given weight. In a culture like that where are the people who do not ‘dominate’? What is the status of the people who have slid out from under the jackboot? What happens to morals or empathy….
What’s in England’s innards.
The post war administrations attempted to – in their patriarchal way – raise the population’s quality of life and in doing so curtail ‘the need to succeed’ that drives our grinding up of life. That was a blip until proven otherwise.
If one is a participant in the dominating is one being dominated? Well yes. But one scrapes a living off the back of it. (One can observe, and reject the ethos while participating – complain about it, and maybe involve oneself in the politics which seek to bring more uh humane elements to the subjugation and exploitation and abuse. Maybe curb it.)
Many years ago I was talking to a mate about voting in a national election; he was anti and I was pro. His argument was that no politician was ever going to do anything for us. I think he meant himself and his family, and his extended family. He might’ve meant me too. I uh didn’t ask. I remember it very clearly. He has been proven right – many times. I think it an interesting and weird moment of solidarity, and deliberately ambiguous threat of no solidarity, as in: who are we. Who deserves solidarity – which values or circumstances reward people with the right to solidarity – which differences are ignored and which similarities are enshrined?
The refusal of English politics is one I’ve seen many times from many perspectives, I uh I understand it; and would accept it as an argument. The sense that there are those who will have solidarity and those who won’t – that also is familiar – and a philosophy I reject. (Solidarity is due. But not to fascists. But in a fascist society everyone is tainted with it…?)
Another view I’ve heard is – we need a strong leader – and we will be strong supporting a strong leader. But that’s all that will be done. The strong leader will demand, and their demands will be the only things of value. They will be supported and the supporter will be sanctified in supporting and only in their support.
The world is divided into predator and prey. The predator may have tools, people are tools.
There is a very simple and direct consequence to this ideology. And it’s total environmental breakdown and the painful death of all life on this planet. There’s another effect, a part of the process: humanity is reduced to two types, 1) single minded half wits. 2) barely functioning, entirely ineffective stressheads.
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