Chicken Yoghurt’s current toonChicken Yoghurt has a category under “pet peeves” called the evil of banality. This is a nice switcheroo of the quote about Eichmann. My last post is so banal it bores and will doubtless attract few readers today.
Yet it is so glaringly obvious for those who would see – this is the progressive militarization of society and is in accordance with [which is NOT the same as saying ‘directed by’] the hidden power which is not Blair [he’s just the puppet who does their will]. I’m more than aware that each blogger has his ranting topic [e.g. managerialism, erosion of rights etc.] and mine is the hidden power.
Every single move by the Blair government, from the quiet acceptance of judicial decisions favouring the perpetrator to the NHS Spine to the EU Beast [which they brazenly and openly state and Blair favours], every move of Bush and Cheney, the provocation of the Muslim world which let loose the crazies onto the west, thereby giving the Power the terrorist justification for draconian legislation, the erosion of all moral values, supplanted by the acquisitive instinct as paramount – all of it points to a momentum directed against the family and the individual human being.
All of you write about these things each day but don’t tackle the Power behind it. You have your reasons. As for me, I’ll keep writing until they shut me down or feel I’m sufficiently marginalized not to bother about [then they’ll pick me up later when my readership drops to 20 or so].
James I agree with the main thrust of your post - authoritarian and cynical governance directed against rather than for the citizen - but I am not sure about the Power behind it. As my feelings on the Diana case and UFOs indicate, I think the powers that be are too incompetent to arrange all of this with a grand plan of oppression behind it. I do think that the UK government wants its citizens relentlessly watched, spied on, reported and logged; but this, for me, is a mixture of money-saving, hopeless IT, fear and some real nasty machinations of the kind of which you speak.
ReplyDeleteJames, can you elucidate on this concept of the Power? Do you mean, say the CIA? Or the Bilderberg Group? Or MI5?
It's something I used to think about a lot but have become progressively more uncertain about.
Blair is just a press-ganged front man and no, he doesn't have the aptitude. CFR, Bildebergers, Club of Paris, Scottish Rite, it's pointless pointing to one or other group as they're just side manifestations of the same crew - descendants of the 13th century usurers. The three "root of the trouble" posts from November go into it in a little detail.
ReplyDeleteBest way to put it is to quote Mayer Amschel Rothschild from 1828, who said: "Allow me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who writes the laws."
I have a post coming up right now about the matter.
I will be interested in the post. I am on Tin Drummer's side in beleiving in the incompetence of government. Furthrmore Socialists always want to incrase state power and we have some very socialisitic peopl in key positions in British government at the moment.
ReplyDeleteFor all that though, history shows that modern states have been marhcing towards greater control over individuals since their inception 250 years ago
James I will go back and read those posts.
ReplyDeleteCityunslicker - you said:
For all that though, history shows that modern states have been marhcing towards greater control over individuals since their inception 250 years ago
The question in my mind is why? This is a fragmented world in which delicate threads (ho ho) connect people, who are served by the skills of many others etc etc - we _need_ operational independence to function; society needs us to have that independence. We need to make risky decisions, get inspiration, plod on through tough courses of action. A government which tries to remove its citizens' sense of independence progressively reduces their ability to act.
In other words - it seems to me - if that is their strategy, it won't achieve anything except a dulling of the collective mind.
"The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." Hmm, the writer of that quote has slipped my memory for a moment...
the answer is, because they can. Governments used to have no influence. The king was owed duty by his barons and they were the ultimate arbiters to those below them in the feudal pecking order.
ReplyDeleteThis all changed a technology improved from the renaissance onward; fedual ties broke down and people begin to see themsleves as loyal only to the King.
Then with increasing democracy in the west, the state even more had a role in people's lives. Suddenly in the 19th century there was money for the poor. The government had to know who these people were and regulate them; hence the slippery road.
Now we 'expect' the government to regulate all aspects of life - roads, crime (police are only 150 years old), work, defence, social security...so the list goes on.
To do this they need information about people and this in turn reduces our liberty. From a hisotrical point of view I cannot see that this will reverse in the West. People like to think the world is fair (regulated) and are happyto let the government interfere to produce this. So it will go on. Of course, socialists love this because they want to state to own everybody in the name of a utopian fairness; hence my proclivity to vote for the right.
Yes: I fear that this is the answer, I'd just prefer there to be another one.
ReplyDelete"We are not interested in the good of others. We are only interested in power." - or something: not riches, things, just power - the ability to tear people apart and remake them.
Cityunslicker, good point about 'now we expect governments to'. Tin Drummer, your last comment is so close to it, I believe.
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