Is it really indifference which has caused this courtly to slip further down the slope towards a 3rd world country - or is it something else?
There's an interesting contrast between Victorian Britain in the mid-19th century, with the industrial revolution going full steam ahead, and what is now known as Germany where in that same time everything sunk into the bourgeois, small-minded mental attitude caring only for family, not for 'the big world' outside. I suggest this was due to the utter tiredness of a people whose lands had been ravaged by the decades of the Napoleonic wars.
Perhaps this indifference we see today in the Uk is due not just to the last few years but to the consequences which WWI and WWII had on the population, where those who might have had the fortitude to form 'change' were removed from the gene pool, lost forever?
I've wondered about that last point a fair bit. Blowing up the finest young men your country has repeatedly on battlefields must have a far longer-term impact than people would assume. Even today Russia suffers from recurrent 'lost generations' as the children/grandchildren/great-grandchildren of those who died in WW2 are not born.
And no doubt there are many reasons. Yet if we fall into apathy - heaven knows it's hard not to - then it is all the easier for the maniacs to let loose their wild schemes. Maybe it's all for nought, but history is littered with individuals or small groups who effected huge change. Perhaps that's another reason left-wing historians loathe the 'great men of history' idea; it gives people the notion that they could have some sort of impact!
Good point about the lefties' loathing the idea of 'great men of history'! Moreover, thanks to the decades-long indoctrination in schools and academe this seems to've become a doctrine nowadays. Interestingly, the 'great men of lefty history' are exempt, for example the 'creator of the NHS ...
I also wonder if what we diagnose as apathy is more a result of people simply disengaging more and more from public discourse because they've learned over the years that they're not being heard. After all, there comes a time when one recognises that jumping up and down can only be sustained for so long before it turns into mindless activism.
I agree perhaps apathy is not the reason for a lack of people pushing back but rather the effect of what feels like a war of attrition. One no sooner focuses on a particular issue when a new travesty emerges. It has been a very long three years for some of us and even longer since we realised power and political reality is not as it seems (>20yrs). So when the stand in the park group I was with fizzled out and I tried another, I was not surprised to find that it too was no longer running.
Having said all that, it is good to read articles like this, as a reminder to light a candle rather than curse the darkness.
To despair is all too easy. My articles, when are on TCW, are often shouted down for being too optimistic (i.e. that all is already lost - the bar is truly low). With that mindset then everything surely is!
Yet, it is hard to disagree. The right resists in fits and starts, but anything sustaining falls by the wayside. The institutional opposition is so great that individual efforts are soon suffocated.
I like your optimism and your approach to things in general. It's unfortunately easy to slip into grumpy old woman mode and disappointing that hardly any "aware" individuals I've crossed paths with have been under 35. I should remember that it took age and life events to remove my youthful naivety. Please keep your positivity: the world would be a sadder place without it.
It has indeed been a long three years, and for some of it's been long seven years now. I often think that it's surely time for some of us old warhorses to retire ...
"Where London goes, so will many other urban areas across the West. Whether this is better or worse, who can say: it is certain, however, that it will be quite noticeably different and that you are not allowed to pass too much comment on the matter."
Who can say,indeed,why didn'you,you seem to know better.
Maybe it will be fine, maybe it will be like Mad Max. Maybe it will be somewhere in between: but let us not pretend that the changes aren't unprecedented.
Is it really indifference which has caused this courtly to slip further down the slope towards a 3rd world country - or is it something else?
There's an interesting contrast between Victorian Britain in the mid-19th century, with the industrial revolution going full steam ahead, and what is now known as Germany where in that same time everything sunk into the bourgeois, small-minded mental attitude caring only for family, not for 'the big world' outside. I suggest this was due to the utter tiredness of a people whose lands had been ravaged by the decades of the Napoleonic wars.
Perhaps this indifference we see today in the Uk is due not just to the last few years but to the consequences which WWI and WWII had on the population, where those who might have had the fortitude to form 'change' were removed from the gene pool, lost forever?
I've wondered about that last point a fair bit. Blowing up the finest young men your country has repeatedly on battlefields must have a far longer-term impact than people would assume. Even today Russia suffers from recurrent 'lost generations' as the children/grandchildren/great-grandchildren of those who died in WW2 are not born.
And no doubt there are many reasons. Yet if we fall into apathy - heaven knows it's hard not to - then it is all the easier for the maniacs to let loose their wild schemes. Maybe it's all for nought, but history is littered with individuals or small groups who effected huge change. Perhaps that's another reason left-wing historians loathe the 'great men of history' idea; it gives people the notion that they could have some sort of impact!
Good point about the lefties' loathing the idea of 'great men of history'! Moreover, thanks to the decades-long indoctrination in schools and academe this seems to've become a doctrine nowadays. Interestingly, the 'great men of lefty history' are exempt, for example the 'creator of the NHS ...
I also wonder if what we diagnose as apathy is more a result of people simply disengaging more and more from public discourse because they've learned over the years that they're not being heard. After all, there comes a time when one recognises that jumping up and down can only be sustained for so long before it turns into mindless activism.
I agree perhaps apathy is not the reason for a lack of people pushing back but rather the effect of what feels like a war of attrition. One no sooner focuses on a particular issue when a new travesty emerges. It has been a very long three years for some of us and even longer since we realised power and political reality is not as it seems (>20yrs). So when the stand in the park group I was with fizzled out and I tried another, I was not surprised to find that it too was no longer running.
Having said all that, it is good to read articles like this, as a reminder to light a candle rather than curse the darkness.
To despair is all too easy. My articles, when are on TCW, are often shouted down for being too optimistic (i.e. that all is already lost - the bar is truly low). With that mindset then everything surely is!
Yet, it is hard to disagree. The right resists in fits and starts, but anything sustaining falls by the wayside. The institutional opposition is so great that individual efforts are soon suffocated.
I like your optimism and your approach to things in general. It's unfortunately easy to slip into grumpy old woman mode and disappointing that hardly any "aware" individuals I've crossed paths with have been under 35. I should remember that it took age and life events to remove my youthful naivety. Please keep your positivity: the world would be a sadder place without it.
Illegitimi non carborundum!
It has indeed been a long three years, and for some of it's been long seven years now. I often think that it's surely time for some of us old warhorses to retire ...
"Where London goes, so will many other urban areas across the West. Whether this is better or worse, who can say: it is certain, however, that it will be quite noticeably different and that you are not allowed to pass too much comment on the matter."
Who can say,indeed,why didn'you,you seem to know better.
Maybe it will be fine, maybe it will be like Mad Max. Maybe it will be somewhere in between: but let us not pretend that the changes aren't unprecedented.
"Whether this is better or worse"....
It was this exact words that was the reason for my comment.
You should know the situation is by far worsening,especially for the historic british and white people.
'Sorry I cannot respond to your email at present, I am all tied up.'
I cannot comment as I am subject to a gagging order.