There are times when the tide of human affairs runs so powerfully and relentlessly that we are left feeling helpless and hopeless as events sweep us along on a course not of our choosing or wash over us, leaving us stranded in a past place from where we watch, powerless to intervene as history races away from us and yesterday’s bad choices mature into tomorrow’s catastrophic consequences.
Trump has already answered your angst by visibly losing his initiated war with Iran. For all but the dumbest his speech rhetoric is clearly shite. With China establishing regions in Russia's eastern border, China becomes the counter to Trump style bravado. I don't think any ism will dominate, neither fascism nor socialism nor communism nor capitalism. The world is just too diverse in cultures religions and party politics. And besides that , human contrariness, would limit the expansion of any Ism.
Ironically, by the way, Holyrood seems to be accidentally set up to obstruct some sort of standard drill formation, virtually forcing it to have small rows and long columns.
You are not alone Peter...there's a whole nation behind you feeling similar.
I think n4m3 nails it...nothing much left for me to say. A first class assessment by him.
I've been watching someone called Taylor Swift ..getting hitched and the commotion around a wee lassie who sings some songs ....unbelievable.....keeping people hanging on breathlessly while the luxury on show is mind blowing...they did give to charity...... a clever ploy to keep the poor peasants adoring them. All manipulated by the media of course ..as they do to Scotland's people....and have done for 300 years.
Just had a young engineer from Virgin Media to change over my old fashioned phone to one that works over the Internet..and a back up mobile ..so if the Internet goes down I can use the back up which of course is Virgin media's own line...so I rely totally on them now...not my BT line.(no choice..if you refuse you could lose your connection..)
We are manipulated ..threatened ( hold up a blank card at a royal funeral and you get arrested.. nothing happens.....but frightens the weans into line.)
News isn't news ..it's entertainment....you can vote ..a bit like the Roman thumbs up or down ..you survive ..you don't.
Listened to the orange looney at the end of his life still trying to trash the planet so he can make more money....And yet there are still Americans who think Trump is great....watched another heidcase ...Hitler...who only succumbed at the very last minute....while his nation was being hammered by the rest of the world...and still people adored him...
How does Scotland survive ..
I think of Shere Khan in Jungle Book ..when Kaa the snake is trying to 'bedazzle ' him (confuse him)...brainwash him..(intensive indoctrination..usually political...aimed at changing a person's basic convictions and attitudes...and replacing them with a fixed set and unquestioned set of beliefs).
...'trust in me.'. sang Kaa deviously...... The tiger lifts up his paw and bashes it firmly down on Kaa's head...'I've no time for this sort of nonsense '...says Khan .
That's my Liberation philosophy......worked for the Irish.
Unfortunately Peter we are immersed in a media environment where the Main Stream Media, which is largely privately owned and controlled, apart from the state mandated British propaganda machine of the BBC of course, seems to have little to no interest in reporting a substantial subset of important events or in interpreting them in ways which might change the corporate establishment friendly mindset that they perpetually purvey.
Many who seem to sense that this situation is in some way fundamentally inadequate go looking for an alternative.
Unfortunately many of them seem to be easily ensnared by offered 'alternatives' like GB News and the reform and restore parties.
We Scottish nationalist ought to be able do discern through the lens of 'what is important to US' that all of this is occurring.
Unfortunately the British cultural hegemony is succeeding in largely overwriting indigenous interests.
Similarly the global hegemonic power, the United States of America dominates the information space, especially in the English speaking and European contexts.
And in this era of decaying late stage neoliberal financialised capitalism all that is dominated by the overpowering interests of a manipulative and extractive corporate elites and the billionaire class.
All of these actors spend billions to create the communications environment that we are surrounded by.
Whether it is the constant ongoing psyops over NATOs proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, or Israels ethnic supremacist slaughter in west asia we can choose to not believe the shite.
But that takes some effort to find the people who are invested in not perpetuating the lies.
It takes some effort.
Most people will not make much effort.
Fortunately most people are intrinsically good, and societies are co-operative.
Scotland has always been a communitarian minded place, but the constant increasing hardships caused by 16 years of unnecessary austerity and poverty may be succeeding in grinding even that down.
I fear that Alf Baird may be right.
Scotlands people must either embrace our unique culture and tear ourselves free from this oppression, or we as a distinct culture may be subsumed, overwritten, extinguished.
There is a backlash in Europe and the Southern Hemisphere against the Anglo-American hegemony. Much of the world is de-Americanising. I've been doing this myself. There are European alternatives for most of the apps and social media platforms we commonly use. It's just a case of finding them and sticking with them so they grow.
Again it comes down to the SNP Gov.... they must realise by now that the bbc is far from a friendly face... yet they continue to deal with them.... so... I propose the SNP should deny the bbc every opportunity they are seemingly allowed in Scotland and that the SNP should let the worlds media know why they are prepared to outlaw this snake... that way the negative publicity that the bbc churns out will be judged by their fellow hacks as of a dubious position.... given that the bbc seems to believe that they are unique in trust and fair reportage.... BUT... of course the SNP will not attempt anything radical...
Trump has already answered your angst by visibly losing his initiated war with Iran. For all but the dumbest his speech rhetoric is clearly shite. With China establishing regions in Russia's eastern border, China becomes the counter to Trump style bravado. I don't think any ism will dominate, neither fascism nor socialism nor communism nor capitalism. The world is just too diverse in cultures religions and party politics. And besides that , human contrariness, would limit the expansion of any Ism.
Worth more than an upvote. I totally agree about isms.
We don't want no isms. We don't want no thought control.
There were just 60 of them, probably from all over the UK (and the US).
By contrast Mosley had thousands in Cable Street, and the UK did not go fascist.
Ironically, by the way, Holyrood seems to be accidentally set up to obstruct some sort of standard drill formation, virtually forcing it to have small rows and long columns.
Bollards to the lot of them!
You are not alone Peter...there's a whole nation behind you feeling similar.
I think n4m3 nails it...nothing much left for me to say. A first class assessment by him.
I've been watching someone called Taylor Swift ..getting hitched and the commotion around a wee lassie who sings some songs ....unbelievable.....keeping people hanging on breathlessly while the luxury on show is mind blowing...they did give to charity...... a clever ploy to keep the poor peasants adoring them. All manipulated by the media of course ..as they do to Scotland's people....and have done for 300 years.
Just had a young engineer from Virgin Media to change over my old fashioned phone to one that works over the Internet..and a back up mobile ..so if the Internet goes down I can use the back up which of course is Virgin media's own line...so I rely totally on them now...not my BT line.(no choice..if you refuse you could lose your connection..)
We are manipulated ..threatened ( hold up a blank card at a royal funeral and you get arrested.. nothing happens.....but frightens the weans into line.)
News isn't news ..it's entertainment....you can vote ..a bit like the Roman thumbs up or down ..you survive ..you don't.
Listened to the orange looney at the end of his life still trying to trash the planet so he can make more money....And yet there are still Americans who think Trump is great....watched another heidcase ...Hitler...who only succumbed at the very last minute....while his nation was being hammered by the rest of the world...and still people adored him...
How does Scotland survive ..
I think of Shere Khan in Jungle Book ..when Kaa the snake is trying to 'bedazzle ' him (confuse him)...brainwash him..(intensive indoctrination..usually political...aimed at changing a person's basic convictions and attitudes...and replacing them with a fixed set and unquestioned set of beliefs).
...'trust in me.'. sang Kaa deviously...... The tiger lifts up his paw and bashes it firmly down on Kaa's head...'I've no time for this sort of nonsense '...says Khan .
That's my Liberation philosophy......worked for the Irish.
For OUR Scotland and her bedazzled weans.
Unfortunately Peter we are immersed in a media environment where the Main Stream Media, which is largely privately owned and controlled, apart from the state mandated British propaganda machine of the BBC of course, seems to have little to no interest in reporting a substantial subset of important events or in interpreting them in ways which might change the corporate establishment friendly mindset that they perpetually purvey.
Many who seem to sense that this situation is in some way fundamentally inadequate go looking for an alternative.
Unfortunately many of them seem to be easily ensnared by offered 'alternatives' like GB News and the reform and restore parties.
We Scottish nationalist ought to be able do discern through the lens of 'what is important to US' that all of this is occurring.
Unfortunately the British cultural hegemony is succeeding in largely overwriting indigenous interests.
Similarly the global hegemonic power, the United States of America dominates the information space, especially in the English speaking and European contexts.
And in this era of decaying late stage neoliberal financialised capitalism all that is dominated by the overpowering interests of a manipulative and extractive corporate elites and the billionaire class.
All of these actors spend billions to create the communications environment that we are surrounded by.
Whether it is the constant ongoing psyops over NATOs proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, or Israels ethnic supremacist slaughter in west asia we can choose to not believe the shite.
But that takes some effort to find the people who are invested in not perpetuating the lies.
It takes some effort.
Most people will not make much effort.
Fortunately most people are intrinsically good, and societies are co-operative.
Scotland has always been a communitarian minded place, but the constant increasing hardships caused by 16 years of unnecessary austerity and poverty may be succeeding in grinding even that down.
I fear that Alf Baird may be right.
Scotlands people must either embrace our unique culture and tear ourselves free from this oppression, or we as a distinct culture may be subsumed, overwritten, extinguished.
The answer for us is Liberation.
It has not happened yet.
We can do it!
;-)
There is a backlash in Europe and the Southern Hemisphere against the Anglo-American hegemony. Much of the world is de-Americanising. I've been doing this myself. There are European alternatives for most of the apps and social media platforms we commonly use. It's just a case of finding them and sticking with them so they grow.
https://european-alternatives.eu/
Again it comes down to the SNP Gov.... they must realise by now that the bbc is far from a friendly face... yet they continue to deal with them.... so... I propose the SNP should deny the bbc every opportunity they are seemingly allowed in Scotland and that the SNP should let the worlds media know why they are prepared to outlaw this snake... that way the negative publicity that the bbc churns out will be judged by their fellow hacks as of a dubious position.... given that the bbc seems to believe that they are unique in trust and fair reportage.... BUT... of course the SNP will not attempt anything radical...