With attention focused on Covid-19 we are distracted, but if we keep our heads this event should act as a catalyst for change.
No-one can deny that change happens in times of crisis. We are knocked out of our comfort zones.
For some, change is created without any conscious control. Having no control is a frustrating emotion. Others use the time to reassess politics, culture, identity, freedoms, and security. If we have a mind we can make conscious and informed decisions to pursue actions that will change our lives and our world.
Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.
Milton Friedman
Purely politics for the politically minded may be short sighted and only using a portion of the influencers available.
The three distinct groups of social activity, the state, the market and the community, can all be influenced by our choices and they have political consequences. Perhaps we try too hard in one direction.
We do not want imposed change, to be herded or corralled, to be made uniformly compliant and dumbed conformists. Be brave and choose freedom of choice in society.
Others may be waiting for you to say: “I do not agree.”
Change is inevitable but why shouldn’t we demand that change is for us as individuals, not for someone else’s agenda. We have had laws imposed by elitists through lobbying, or ideologues imposing their policies on the grounds of the greater good.
Similarly we cannot tolerate virtue signalling self-righteous deceit as acceptable.
Excessive laws, failure to implement existing laws, and religious laws running in a bizarre parallel world, all of these undermine our society.
It becomes personal, and it should be; you should use your personal choices.
Disenfranchisement leads to frustration and helplessness which in turn leads to apathy. The apathetic cannot be blamed; it is unfair when people see no future in trying. They may be in survival mode every day of the week, every week of the year, not just in our present Chinese crisis. When there is no leadership and no guidance, the dice are so heavily stacked against them they may feel safety in the herd.
The idea that they are not interested is delusionary. They will at least have an unconscious interest.
The ability of people to make political change does not exist only at the ballot box, indeed some may say that form of influence is down the list. Make social change through your choices.
It can be said that those with the most fervour and purpose are the ones who succeed in making changes. The socialists with their misguided ideology and corporatists chasing money have all the incentives they need to pursue their ambitions with fervour. Their purpose will corrupt or remove your choices. Unfortunately for ordinary people these two successful groups appear to have joined forces as Globalists. Perhaps we should copy them?
We may have better fortune if we pursue our own objectives with fervour. In nature there are more examples than we need as all lifeforms pursue the survival techniques they have individually developed. In nature life forms which do not defend their existence soon cease to exist. Think about your choices.
Champion your choices and freedoms.
“We are the ones we have been waiting for! We are our own saviours.”
The plebeians are not powerless. The way to bring down ideological dinosaurs is to keep plugging away at them. But do not expect any help. You will not be given the answers even if you ask the right questions.
By understanding what underpins our freedoms, liberty, culture, identity, and even laws and politics, we can then use the powerful weapon of choice to make our lives whole and maintain the achievements we have made repairing the damage that has been done.
Leaving ballot box choices to one side, consider what other choices you have.
All should realise the implications of the Chinese Communist Party’s behaviour, the inadequacies of past and present politicians, and have an idea of the steps to correct the situation. There is no way back and it is not the Chinese people who are at fault. They are victims too.
There is your first choice. Stop buying Chinese goods wherever possible. Check labels, even on food.
Also ask before buying meat: “Is it Halal or Kosher?”
There will be pain and suffering but acquiescence hasn’t worked before and it will not in the future. While we buy Chinese goods we are complicit in oppression and exploitation.
Then the real cold hearted culprits come into view, the international corporations.
There is your second choice. Stop buying products from big business wherever possible. It will not be easy but try and buy products and services from small to medium businesses only.
The civil society has been overrun by corporate interest as well as the socialists. NGOs now have political agendas.
There is your third choice. Before making donations find out how much the CEO is paid, whether they have spoken out on political issues, and their policies.
The corruption of charities has disenfranchised ordinary people by owning their ability to express social responsibility and support ‘good causes’.
We should broadcast information creating awareness for individual choices and allegiances. Our choices are the most powerful tools we have. Let us spread the word.
Stop voting for the main political parties, buy British and local whenever possible and do not support corrupt NGOs.
Start with China. That will disrupt the UN the Globalists and the corporate entities in one.
Put some fire and steel in your decisions.
Of course expecting people to respond to the China crisis may just be wishful thinking.
An excellent article. I’ve used ‘self choice’ for moral, political and cultural reasons for a good few years. It’s not an easy choice, but I feel it to be cowardly and immoral not to make a stand in whatever way possible, and wherever possible. I have had to explain the ‘why’ of some of my choices when pushed into a corner, and sometimes it has given a kick start to someone else to not just follow blindly. At times it has had me labelled a crank, or worse and even family find excuses to keep me apart at certain times for fear I may follow my conscience and raise eyebrows. All the difficulties aside, it does leave you with a feeling of being empowered and refreshingly clean of conscience.
I cannot answer all the lovely comments. We know and we hope.
Buy British was a slogan of the late sixties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Backing_Britain
We need to bring that hope to life again. It is my Britain. It is your Britain. It means something, don’t ever forget that.
Excellent article Kim – we do have our own destiny in our hands but at the moment it may be a lonely old road we plough.
However, when things get even worse as I think we all believe they will – and worse to we who love freedom of every sort will be the relentless loss by loss of it – others will become indentified even if only by necessity.
It can happen.
We can do it.
We just need to show the way.
Good article Kim. I’ve been thinking this crisis will change the future one way or another. Also you are quite right that change should be ‘for us’ – that is each of us as individuals. Also right to remind us that ‘the market’ IS a means of change and one that each of us has some power to influence.
Interesting ‘clips'(?) Trump has shown the way in getting out of the globalist bodies. Again, wherever possible we should avoid buying from big global firms and definitely think very carefully before supporting any ‘charity’.
Just dropping odd remarks in the community can make some difference.
Frustration is a very destructive feeling. It attacks particularly because the ballot box seems to have no effect on which globalist bodies TPTB kow tow to.
Didn’t watch the lemmings right through. Apart from the little tails they looked just like guinea pigs – harmless creatures that humans have always wantonly maltreated.
Still I’m past my ‘USE BY DATE’ so if the CCP’s virus takes me it doesn’t matter.
“Still I’m past my ‘USE BY DATE’ so if the CCP’s virus takes me it doesn’t matter”. It does matter. The more of us who stand up to evil, the better. We’re needed on this planet. Lets defy them and live to 100!
Thanks Mary. Will do!
Thank you Kim. I have been checking the Charity Commission website for years before donating, and now only give to a couple of trusted well run British charities where most of the people running it are volunteers, as it should be. I have stopped buying anything “made in China” where possible as it is not always apparent where some products originate from despite the labelling. As for politics, I despair of anyone in authority as there is a distinct lack of brain cells. You can’t please all of the people all of the time so don’t try.
For seven years now I have been trying to interest or give UKIP a plan, Half a plan, A simple plan. Even a plan attached to money.
I am only now beginning to realise, slowly, that “plans” are now alien. We don’t know how, or why,or what for etc.
It has to be gestated by IT. It has to be produced in a computer or phone with the ultimate accolade , An App. by all hallowed Microsoft or amazon
WHY BOTHER TO VOTE, as they are all lying sods ! – A nephew of mine said that, so I pointed out that those who did vote may well set the agenda which you will have to follow, and you will only have yourself to blame. – I also pointed to the history that gave us all the vote !
When PM Cameron saw the growing interest in Farage’s UKIP, he realised he had to take action to blow it away. – He arranged our Referendum and was sure of EU continuation, but the People went off his script and voted to Leave the EU, in spite of his costly pleas !
Westminster was, and is slow to understand that in a Democracy it is the People that decide. – The December election underlined the Brexit wish of the referendum, yet now we hear PM Johnson may be thinking of ‘sweeteners’ to get a deal ! – WILL POLITICOS EVER LEARN ?
If they can’t or won’t learn, then from the Voters will come the answer ! – UKIP and Brexit Party may well be dormant today, but the demand is alive and continuous. – CHANGE BY CHOICE may well out trump even the died-in-the-wool Lib/Lab/Cons. – Wise Politicos only, will take note !
Thanks Mike, you’ve given me a bit of hope on this dismal Sunday with what you say about Westminster, slow to change but may be did realise it’s the people that decide.
All in all very good stuff, in particular your “is that meat halal or kosher ?” point. Ritual slaughter has no place in a civilised society, and the importation of such meat should be banned too.
Hear hear george. If ‘THEY’ don’t like it they can either GO HOME or go veggie.