this site is not
about 'left wing politics'
It is about what
culture and thinking assists us to become a useful part of the never
ending project to hold truth to power and also maintain a reasonably stable
fair system of administering human affairs, such that the greatest good may be
available to the greatest number.
If you believe that
means simply a 'comfortable' standard of living and a fair distribution of
resources for all, then this isn't the place for you. Or maybe you are who it
is the place for if you are prepared to just stop and think, for a long
time... so shut up, stop being yourself
and come on in - it will be a very long journey for you. But i assure you it is
worth it.
Understanding the
true nature of the battle for 'human rights' is a mighty difficult affair. And
we live in the age when even the supposed goodies narcissistically expert spin
for money and attention. This doesn't mean they are able to even know a more
universal truth about the human condition.
But don't get smug.
No one should for a
moment even begin to think they may like to become a better person so as to
maybe even 'take part' without watching maybe the greatest cultural fable of
the last few decades, Land of The Blind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Blind And unless it hurts by the end - which
it only will if you have the depth to realise it is indeed a completely
UNIVERSAL tale, then you will end up
like him. So shut up. And maybe come back here one day when you are ready.
A superb example of
the above paragraph- which is terribly hard to begin to think laterally about,
unless one is very well educated about society in the round is as follows:
The film is about a righteous person who is cruelly tortured over many years. I shall not spoil it by
giving away how, but if you have watched it i offer a parallel. But here is the
tricky bit: no one involved in the
administration of matters that result in the second paragraph below would ever
imagine that they may also be him- of the film.
(and there are
ALWAYS tangential issues and opinions which of course muddy any waters but the
following is a consensus of many many opinions put into the public domain by a
whole range of people from prime ministers down over several decades).
In the UK in the
early to mid 00s many newspaper articles then parliamentary speeches referred
to children wrongly being removed from families on the basis of unlawful
actions by UK local authorities. It is accepted in 2005 (running up to the most
famous children’s legal case this century) that now the state no longer has the
ultimate sanction on the citizen - the death penalty, children being unjustly
removed from a parent is the new worst sanction the state has on any
citizen. Around this period local
authorities took around 20 to 40 thousand new child removal cases every year.
The 'figures' are almost impossible to find.
Campaigners including many senior journalists and MPs such as Hemming by
the lae 00s were pinpointing many 'injustices' - in nonOrwellspeak evil
unlawful child theft (and MANY gravy-train vested interests make huge amounts
of money from this). Cameron himself mid 00s said that far too many children
were being taken from their parents. Yet today there is something like double
the number there was in the early to mid 00s.
And, i bet every
single so called 'professional' and the political masters in the background -
especially during the last 5 years of New labour up to 2010, would think "
my.... action against family x, could not in any way be conceived as part of a
wrong tendency. It was of course required and just..." Even Lord Justice
Wall in his first interview with The Times as leader of the whole family
justice courts stated around 2013 “social workers are sometimes Stalinist and
Maoist". But each would find it impossible to see themselves in any way as
sharing traits with the character of this film. What of course the film is
about.
Everyone - i have
done it myself, should be constantly reviewing their actual behaviour - meaning
what they promote or what they act to facilitate, for tendencies towards being
just as cruel and damaging to others as the 'others' policies they are working
to change.
There are only really three kinds of culture.
That like the Land of The Blind which should if as well written as that leave us uncomfortable, knowing wetoo are just as potentially dodgy.
Those films and books like Erin Brockovic which genuinely inspire us to find the lifeforce within to take part in the never ending job of keeping power and money balanced with egalitarian needs and human rights.
And entertainment. Good if a fair few of these can also have some useful 'message' within too. Perfect example Captain fantastic. In fact even Pretty Woman is a pretty moral tale in many respects even if rather fanciful.
This is NOT some 'leftist' propaganda organisation or writing. It has two intents. True humanist education. Based on universal human rights. The honest version - not politically correct crap version. (and some intelligent attempt at being useful 'critic' - i mean basically if you believe in sky fairies Jesus was one of them...and 'he' has his fans..).
But maybe moreso bring a story of one place where the hardest 'political' choices were facing the country, and me 'personally' (simply as an example of REAL politics), and maybe try and help anyone - either 'side' of one existential British matter that may again be 'debated', have some depth, and empathy as to how hard all choices are.
I have added today a large section to the Bolivia page.
BUT, in an 'authoritative' way - meaning only knowledge deep down esteems. For example see the 60s Antigone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGTAbx0BW7I all Creon's mates, and not so matey peeps, telling him what a plonker he was in second half, there is no question (the plot/dialog/scene design show ) he would even think of biting their head off for constructive criticism, even when it drove him nuts.
THE PAGES (linked above) will each have a useful theme to maybe assist the younger person curious about politics and society - where maybe we really are.
Then - long planned - 100s of films and talks will be listed here, with some critique or suggestions as to what maybe taken from them.
And hopefully a few others will join in what influenced them. And WHY! or in fact 'how' i suppose is more germane. As long as it is the truth. Not the people pleasing false virtue signalling version.
the true version often goes like this: "I was a selfish twat... user, manipulator and general show off..as my whole society had taught me to be since about age -9 months....so its not REALLY my fault...but i was Mr/s 'atomised'.... then i saw film X ...and then ten years on after real baptisms of fire changed me to a less Thatcherite tosser type i realised that maybe i had taken that scene from that film deep down as guideline...it maybe just nudged me a bit later on as i understood myself... " blah blah..
Nomadland by the way as a homeless smelly hobo vagrant i know for a fact is the worst film in history... because no matter how 'low' one may be - by others standards, there is a magnificent joyous energy most days, living in that mode, that i know is far far more elevating than any mere dull house dweller can ever experience - as do many of the van people over the years i have met and got to know.
Getting false victimhood, confected 'vulnerability' - i.e. the victim Olympics, OUT of the culture is absolutely categorically the prime mission. Because it fails to ...WORK...
(Rachel Kushners book Mars Room - undoubtedly best REAL book this century, has NO pity in it.... no self pity...and thus one LEARNS - we do not learn from pity)
WTF i shall figure it out as i go along
It only occurred as i was sprightly stepping as always up to the place where as usual the fat old ladies are gossiping loudly over cake and have no actual respect for the 'visitor' who may wish peace and quiet as he abuses their plug, " yes..... how wonderful, all great musicians and writers say ' you have to look into the eye of just one cyclops in your audience and perform to... them alone
unless you are a real god and don't need such distractions, and reach The Sublime* with your eyes closed; there are few ....
So yes, one must have a target or ideal reader in mind. And i didn't know her, really, until a few months ago. Indeed could not have dreamed her up so simply perfect as merely .. the person if one were to be a Pilger, the fun version, or even better Tariq,
(SEE PUKKAPAKI PAGE UPDATED, JUST NOW ..IT BEGINS... but i decidedi turn it more into broadcasts ...soon)
whom is one targeting the whole damn last 20 years of life at.... who is archetype.... ?
And i hadn't thought until today, yes... bingo... that's all she was...
especially as i doubt anyone could read ...'our' material as me and the fat not Pukka Pak...he whom culturally Miss Appropriated a false origin to his suntan level.... is so so 'our', only a full reading could show...
And that if one attacks with the words " its only against you and your...fake Che t-shirt wearing false prophets.... " is the exact opposite of what is true, but still having the person it is 'against' in mind is important too. I went on a walk with her yesterday.
* i really really DO know what it is now... last week was surely the last chapter those videos and .... that walk yesterday
bully for me but the writing up of it will be so short and sweet and to the point.... of even you.
Though this 'place' - figuratively of course, has been drawing itself in my head for some years, as for now only Ralph Schxx explains what it will be.
He is 'founder' but others will in time be found to join in, and live in this place.
It is simply about showcasing a range of the very best humane culture that ENGAGES. Moaning, as in Nomadland, doesn't. Confected pity or vulnerability is worse than dumbing down a culture. (i have known MANY van people - every day they are bright eyed and stoical NO MATTER WHAT...that is the point of van life!)
To start with the 'terrible' one - Coetzee's Disgrace.. it is far more than just a book, it is a sermon. A superb one and it is extraordinary how few took to it, PROPERLY.
About which, here, in time, i shall broadcast.
There will be a 'podcast' built in to this site soon. Though i hate that word - broadcast has done us for 100 years and is all we ever needed to use as its a superb word with deep real useful meaning.
If it aint broke, don't fix it.
i wish it were 'our'...
But it will be (as discussed at length with the fat fake part Pak) a paradise where only GREAT influencers are allowed...
And a whole new people will arise...
It will be bolivistan.com later today ..or tomorrow..
which i own.
Though as always wish to not own anything and pass it on to a trusted equal.
And even if i never went anywhere A levels never mind university, i will turn it into one, soon. A great one.
