IFFY

IFFY (A Kiplingesque look at the Westminster Ethos)

If you can catch his eye when all about you are would-be heirs, eager to catch it too;
If you can get rosetted for a safe seat - be voted in - yet think they voted “you”
If you can fawn and not be galled by fawning or, being out-fawned, plot the sod’s demise,
Then, sidelined, coolly wait for that new dawning, and bide your time with rivals none the wize

If you can carry-can for some disaster - not of your making - and display no pain;
If you can meet with whips and saints of plaster and bow to both and never once abstain;
If you connive at crafted untruth spoken by twisted knave to beat the voter-mules
And watch their trust, invested in you, broken, and stoop to further dupe the bloody fools;

If you can made a heap of wild expenses and care for Code of Conduct, not one toss,
Then meekly give some back, to mend his fences, and save the red face of the party boss;
If you contrive your bile and gorge to batten as you ask crass set-questions in The House,
And so gain crumbs that your lean status fatten, as you aspire to: ‘Senior Servile Louse’;

If you can subvert crowds with faux charisma, or meet a Queen - with neither gaining much;
If you can breathe that Westminster miasma; if all folk count with you - as prop or crutch;
If you can fill Big Ben’s impostured minute with party games and politician-fun,
Then surely - as PM - you’ll drop us in it, and we’ll have got ourselves another one!

I THINK THEREFORE I ERR

The more I hear of neuropsychology, the more the madness of world politics seems to make sense. And the more I ponder the foregoing, the more I conclude that it has to be this way, because it is fundamental to mankind to be perverse. In less complicated times, we seem to have found ways to limit our perversity, strict taboos being one mechanism, but all that is behind us.

Human babies are born totally vulnerable, and in my view, programmed to mitigate that vulnerability whilst striving for control. Paradoxically, if these programmes are not modified or suppressed in the fully grown individual, without powerful cultural constraints being in place, the sort of runaway madness that we now see worldwide, must inexorably arise. Our massive capacity for manipulation, of both the outer and inner worlds, for survival and advancement, now runs rampant and destructively so. Highly driven individuals, whether engendered from nature or nurture, in the modern world of massive power residing in wealth or armaments or both, now rise rapidly to positions of near absolute authority and wreak havoc.

It is said that psychopaths are overrepresented in positions of power, and is also said that they are skilled practitioners of George Orwell’s doublethink. It would certainly appear so. In recent years, we have seen leaders of both America and Britain, behave very strangely, applying a mixture of oppression and subversion to their people, in launching righteous war, as they saw fit. The trend continues. Meanwhile, in both countries, all measures of civilisation are diminishing.

The problem with pondering such matters, is that one realises one’s own distortions, as well as those of source information impinge, and edge perception towards an Alice in Wonderland unreality which one must, necessarily, view from Alice’s perspective. A very odd perspective indeed! And should it all suddenly makes sense, there is a very real danger that the ‘sense’ is unique to oneself. This is no place to be if sanity is to be maintained! Looking for ‘validating purpose’ is clearly to no avail, so one might as well give up one’s life to an unknowable God!

It is presumably at this point, those with unconducive brain chemistry, cut off their ear, pluck out their eyes, or simply take an overdose. In this enquiry, I would not start from here.

ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET?

During the (apparently) long periods of planetary harshness, ingenuity might well have been vital to human survival; but in the short periods of quiescence and ease, there seems not enough time to redesign (evolve) before the next ice-age or cataclysm arrives. Thus, the current period of easy-living has allowed ingenuity to turn to unnecessary pursuits that rush to perversity. (By analogy: it is believed that our immune system, robbed of its constant struggle with ancient internal foes (parasites etc) by that same ingenuity, is turning upon our bodily infrastructure, causing pernicious ‘auto-immune’ misery to burgeon.)

Wisdom – an increasingly scarce attribute of mankind – surely dictates that we should only espouse novelty (inventiveness) after a prolonged circumspection. Again – the opposite prevails. Modern man not only seeks, and deploys, everything new – junking the ‘old’ – he actually lauds the process as innovation and growth, and proceeds in haste.

It would appear that in ‘primitive’ (sustainable) societies, the new, was often taboo. Perhaps intuition is another attribute lost in recent times?


OF BEDS

As the Oyster yields a pearl
man invents.
Neither realises their fecundity
is rooted in irritation:
of one - the body
of the other - the mind.
Man kills the oyster
for its pearl.
And kills his own World
for that eureka moment of invention

DO UNTO YOUR OWN AS TO OTHERS?

Right now, no one knows to what degree bread and circuses are going to be unaffordable in Britain - at least, to the ordinary masses. Add the unassimilated, multicultural, proto-Balkan sub-mass, and we have a potential for anything from unrest to disorder. But I am not finished adding: Those who are (at least partially) awake, know that money, media, Mammon and Westminster are cahoots, in the supply of bread and circuses, and in the elevation of the rich, powerful and famous. They will fight to keep 'what is theirs'.

We are constantly told (with arguable validity) that electronic networking and 'viral' spread of ideas, information and plotted actions, endangers the power that 'they' have over us. It would be illuminating to know how prepared our rulers are to block, or remove, the people's intranet. Are they prepared at all?

For the purposes of this thought-experiment, let's assume nationwide unrest is triggered. Perhaps after 9/11 proved a structured lie, but ‘he’ got away with it; or Westminster was belatedly found to be ill-structured, inept, and self-serving; or Europe was shown to be a political deception, with a hidden agenda - probably all of these.

Now, it happens, that America has spawned a new group of dissenters; they hark back to allegiance to the people through the Constitution - not obedience to Obama. They say they are ready to defend 'liberty' in those terms. Potential revolution? Could something similar happen here, in the light of the above? When enough people are 'past caring', i.e. dumped out of the rat race, they are free to gather, protest, resist and to be a 'threat' to the established order, without further loss.

This is the point where the Westminster Citadel pulls up the drawbridge. The cipher-ninnies unite in self-preservation (a small step from self-interest) and declare a State of Emergency. All violence from the people is now ‘Terrorism’ (the laws are in place) and military head-cracking, supplants the police kind. Confrontation escalates, Belfast style.

At what point does the proxy King of England, dictating from the Royal Palace of Westminster, call on the militia, with the customary nod and wink, to KILL HIS OWN PEOPLE?

GADDAFI 'KILLS HIS OWN PEOPLE'

All British Prime Ministers KILL THEIR OWN PEOPLE (for profit) through permitted sale of alcohol and tobacco; the disease that rots the organs, prior to death, amounts to preliminary TORTURE, for the subject and their family.

Because of the feudal Westminster Palace configuration (hierarchical parties with absolute leaders, and whips) Blair AND JUST ONE OTHER needy, deluded wannabe (IDS) was all it took to get into Dubya's war. When an unprecedented mass of people demonstrated against it - Blair DICTATED.

At that point, Britain sank to a MAD DICTATORSHIP (sounds familiar?). Not content with BUSINESS AS USUAL, killing his own, Blair rushed to iniquitous destruction and slaughter, in Iraq - with righteous cries. And all this from a leader who was getting more Christian, and god-fearing, EVERY DAY.

Blair killed his own people (as Dave’s government now does) and added the killing of Johnnie Foreigner to his tally. Mote and Beam anyone?

GADDAFI IS NOT IN THE SAME LEAGUE!

COUNTERFEIT BRITISH INTEGRITY

As my jaw slowly drops, I am proving to myself, beyond doubt, that Political Parties are unregulated in this counterfeit democracy. Our counterfeit governance, has seen to it that Political Parties are neither regulated by Westminster nor by statute.

In the news today, we have OFCOM fussing, ineffectually, about the lies of broadband suppliers. But THERE IS NO OFPOL! What is more, Political Parties DO NOT EXIST in any formalised way, that permits CONFRONTATION, or CALLING TO ACCOUNT. They do not operate under Britain’s trumpeted RULE OF LAW.

What a farce! Westminster is OUT OF CONTROL.

In the 2010 General Election, the Conservative Party widely issued a flyer (variously modified) carrying the blatant lie: "THE CONSERVATIVES MUST WIN HERE TO STOP ANOTHER 5 YEARS OF GORDON BROWN". In fact, it is a double lie, as no one could guarantee Brown's return under any or all circumstances, and the use of 'HERE' stands out starkly, as undue influence on the recipient locality.

Challenge to the Conservative Party goes unanswered. As said: there is no OFPOL (Office of Politics). The ASA are prohibited from action (though they sent all parties a sad pre-election plea for integrity) and the Electoral Commission is subtitled 'NOT ME GUV'.

THERE is the shining British example to the world - atop which Dave commands the terrible Gaddafi: 'IN THE NAME OF BRITISH INTEGRITY GO, AND GO NOW!'

DENIAL DENYING DENIED

A drug Tsar, in Reading (Berkshire) once said to me: "We have no drug problem - only a people problem - people whose lives are so wretched they escape to drugs."

I echo: "We have no money problem - only a people problem - people who, though higher up the scale, yet have lives so wretched (well disguised) that they escape into delusional manipulation of their fellow, for personal gain.

The common factor is that both are addicted and both need, always, 'another hit'.

The greater pool of trend-setter humanity (our lot) is on a downward path of immaturity. Political leaders are drawn from the most needy (driven) of this pool. Such people are brilliant at the 'animal arts' but no bloody use at wisdom, honour, integrity etc; and the last thing they master is SELF KNOWLEDGE.

Therein lies the global problem. You can apply monetary manoeuvres, and growth stimuli, till the sky falls, but with declining social competence in both leaders and universally suffered (sic) voters, the result will inevitably be failure, regardless.