Faster, faster!
Faster is an increase in speed. To repeat implies urgency.
We are governed by time, and time is a function of faster. Time has been a luxury.
To say faster begs the questions of what and where.
Our fascination with social chatter exposes us to bigotry, peer pressure and fear. Fear is a tool of control. No time to stop and think. The subtlety of mind control requires movement to work its judo on our balance and understanding. We cannot be allowed to reflect on the what. The ‘what’ is what is going to happen, a secret that we will discover, later.
The urgency creates haste, and carelessness. The blurring of the fine line between speed and velocity is important. Where are we going? We will know when we get there.
The globalists have won everything, governments, institutions, civil society, main media, social media, technology, commerce and money. Money stops the clock for a nanosecond before fear whisks us away again.
Democracy is thwarted and capitalism is corrupted.
Fear, crisis and panic. Faster, faster.
And now lockdown!
Goodwill swells to the top. Keep safe. I will ring back. We are good are you?
So many conspiracy theories sloshing about. Another ploy or are we getting paranoid?
Is this kindness to one another one of those spasms of human energy before the body expires? A kick of life before the flame goes out.
Is this another part of the brainwashing where the controllers steal ownership of ‘community spirit’?
Or is it genuine compassion, and thoughtfulness of the sheep?
As our freedoms evaporate the gap between capitalism and co-operation widens. We, the proletariat, huddle in the background as the money slips away, no longer serving society only serving the few. Our currency is credit and bondage, with a thin veneer over the deceit.
Now gather round lads and lasses.
You all know how we are being screwed by globalists. Ok, Miles, we know we can get tomatoes for Christmas, but that isn’t the point, is it?
Look, this is our chance to cock a snook at the global trillionaires, so please pay attention.
It is a ‘Three Point Plan’, and three is a very strong number but let us call them ‘three stepping stones’. With these we can earth down to basic sociological and biological functions.
Point one: Last Friday, that was Good Friday, we distributed a newsletter to our small village. Nothing special, with pages allotted to local nature, miscellaneous, heritage and history, gardening, kitchen talk, events and contact details. No harm.
Why? Because we have lost the will to be aware of each other. We started losing it a long time ago. Was it Thatcher, and the selfish eighties? Affluence, laziness, disappointment, apathy, fear, I digress.
Let us put back the cohesion and networks of awareness. We are all in this together. But let it be your, no our initiative, not another’s imposition.
Oh yes! And schemes to co-operate. The butcher’s van, the fishmonger’s van, bulk heating oil and communal shopping. Working together as a community. Fund raising and socialising.
Point two: Commercial enterprise in reverse, so to speak. Easy to slide into point two if point one is well organised and founded. One step at a time like the Fabians. Well, not as sly as them.
People start belonging, no politics, you understand, not yet anyway!
Covert, underhand, you may think.
Well, I say! The 50s and 60s have gone you know, it is a dirty war we fight now, so buck up.
Point two will of course include setting up a bank account. There are ways of doing this…….. How banal, how vulgar, to revert to such basics of capitalism.
The fact is we will not change what is happening in our lifetime, for there are forces taking us on a different course, a course that is against our best interests. As the carousel goes faster and faster we are going nowhere else and the centrifugal force of convenience, comfort, and distraction, emasculates us and controls any thought of other worlds, opportunities, and freedom.
The truth is, we have to return to basics.
We must find the community within society. The human spirit and biological inclinations may well be all we have left. Could that be what Solzhenitsyn meant when he said “when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.”?
Is it wrong to attempt to organise communities, to enable a co-operative venture supporting local sustainability and value? And again we come back to localism my chosen answer to the challenges of the 21st century.
What does a community give?
A shared emotional connection. Everything else is academic. We need to find happiness, contentment and usefulness to go forward in our ‘blink of an eye’ lives. We need to take back control of our lives.
The Lord grant that we may all become tillers of the soil – Nikolai Gogol
Having gained the trust of the community we must advertise our success in the wellbeing of members, the spread of common knowledge, and experience, the re-establishment of respect for the past, and the belonging to the present.
We must also encourage other communities to organise themselves and spread the good word with fervour.
Point three: As more community groups are formed they must interact, not join, that defeats the ‘basic’ concept, but co-operate. With communicating communities the final breakthrough can be made. Momentum is achieved where it will be feasible to create a local currency and reboot capitalism.
The tail should not wag the dog. At last we can
Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s – Mark 12:17
And that is the Three Point Plan.
It is not the answer to all our woes but a beginning. We are sheep and we deserve better treatment and the ability to live our lives safe from the wolves.
Localism.
The benefits of industry are huge and this is what has done the trick for the world. Do not confuse the Manager with the Businessman.The aim of profit is the same, But for one it’s the life blood, and the other its using a very complex skill..
I came to the conclusion during a lifetime of being Managing Director for hire to ailing companies, that there is a dividing line .
I drew that line at a workforce including suppliers at about 2,000 to .You can know everybody, at least by sight, no more than that. And they are human beings. However cantankerous or ( At worst arguementative ). Generally if greater than that it just becomes ” Lose 17% of the workforce “. or buy that competitor, or change the law by giving that politician another car. Easy.
I’ve never bothered to work out for myself how that fits in with “localism”. But it is my experience that a firm of 300 to 500 employees sits well in towns or distinct. suburbs.
We must not lose the larger firms. They are easy enough to split. Investors, bankers etc Scream like hell. But we must get rid of the gargantuan monstrosities that buy and swallow competition as the simple and easy brainless and obvious for more money.
I suspect that beyond 2000 there is unacceptable wastage. One can visualise and theorise but you have experience, the most valuable asset. The lessons are learnt through practice and mistakes, no doubt. What you say makes perfect common sense to me. But there is an added bonus now which AI and Robotics.
SMEs are ideal for Localism. You have put your finger on the concept. This may not have been possible, even twenty years ago, but now it would be feasible, in my humble opinion.
We all know that the road to Localism is peppered with success, disappointment, and disaster, but often the right way is the hardest way. The hardest part may be taking control from the ‘establishment’, with taxes and services, see point four.
I am personally incompetent beyond visualisation. One of the most rewarding aspects of this old idea is of pooling local resources and local ownership and local usefulness. Big does not work. Small can work!! Thanks TGS.
Oh yes, this would be point five.
The plan works ……………until, in part two, someone in the community decides to take charge and become a controller. Then it starts all over again !
The human condition!
At least that control will be closer and perhaps more manageable. This argument was used in the run up to the Referendum. “We will have no control anyway”. Perhaps it could reboot Capitalism and Democracy. That’s point four. The ‘locals’ may not be ready for that. Shh.
Thank you all for your comments. A friend recently explained to me the some of the qualities of sheep. It made me think. Perhaps we will have to change our expectations. Not, I hasten to add, our understanding and spirit. The other day I watched the TV, something I rarely do now. In a short space of time I counted four advertisements for gambling. We are not in a good place.
Although we won the referendum, against the establishment, rather than the unrestricted choice of the proletariat, there is so much corruption. I suspect it is a war we are losing. It reminds me of the words attributed to King Leonidas of Sparta who when told the arrows of the Persian army would blot out the sun said, “Then we will fight in the shade”.
YES.
And that is where it stops. We don’t DO things any more. In the 1950s in discussion groups, this situation was postulated, And LOCALISM was generally accepted , only to be bastardised over the years by politics into harmlessness ( we thought )..
I talk to politically minded from time to time. The understanding has now gone. They no longer even know it’s there. I am still a supporter of ukip.. I say ” WE need a plan “. They say ” We will get a leader and push leaflets thru doors and appoint spokespersons”. That’s the plan.And then we’ll give speeches .
I ask you.
Yes it looks like localism is the way forward.
“Donald Trump: Coronavirus Exposed Dangers of Supply Chains Dependent on China”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/19/donald-trump-coronavirus-exposed-dangers-of-supply-chains-dependent-on-china/
I must admit Kim that by your reckoning, I am pleased to be one of the sheep ! ….. Compassion and Thoughtfulness have always figured in my thinking, and so too with a great many others. ….. Ba. ba. ba !
It’s social media that has destroyed traditional society. We even have the zombies in the streets now hunched over their smartphones.
Nobody thinks about going down the pub these days for a natter.
I wonder how many pubs will survive the lockdown anyway?
looks like that much of the ‘cheap’ money and the comfort it buys is about to go elsewhere, not sure about the sloth though, but it’s certainly time for change, it’s going to be interesting. Probably lots of pseudo pain and virtue signalling to come yet, before the penny drops.
Is it the spread of social media beyond the control of the oligarchs, the tunnel-visioned politics mavens and the blinkered toadies of the ruling class that makes me feel that there is change in the air? I watched UKIP suddenly ignite, flare like a beacon and then collapse in a Ratner shambles, lived through the extraordinary months when the Brexit Party rolled inexorably over the traditional parties and forced them to admit that power rests with the people, not with those who finance the LibLabCon.
All the professional politicians have failed — see the faults exposed by the current crisis — but will the new order rise up from below or will it be controlled by those with the money and by those indoctrinated in the belief that they are the ruling class?
The UK has been failed by our rulers for the last forty or fifty years, suborned by money, sloth and comfort. Time to change.
JF