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.