Natural Child, Natural Society: 2025

I’m dreaming of a diverse Christmas

a rewrite of the well known song....
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I’m dreaming of a diverse Christmas
Just like the ones Jesus would love to know
Where the people are blissing  and children are listening
To hear the adults lovingly glow.

I’m dreaming of a diverse Christmas
With every Christmas card and verse
May your days be equitable and just
And may all your Christmases be diverse

I’m dreaming of a diverse Christmas
Just like the ones Jesus would love to see
Where all the peoples of Earth listen
To hear each others songs happily.

I'm dreaming of a diverse Christmas
just like the ones Jesus would love to see
all the LBGTQA people loved by
Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Pagan and secular communities….

I'm dreaming of a diverse Christmas.

Billions of people are dreaming of a diverse Christmas, Hannukah, Laylat al-Raghaib, Yuletide, Bodhi Day, Kwanzaa

In spite of childhood abuse and trauma...

In spite of the trauma and abuse I was subjected to by Catholic clerics and lay people throughout my childhood, I have, through long reflection, decades wading through the floods of distress that trauma imposed upon me as a child and as an adult with cPTSD, learned that for most people Faith is about their local community...

I have learned to accept ordinary people's faith, the faith into which they were born, as separate in large degree from the Political Power of Institutional Religious Wealth. How people behave towards one another matters.

Those ordinary people who gather in Churches, Synagogues, Temples do so largely because they are a living community, a gathering of people whose lives are intertwined and connected in mutual aid and living relationships.

This was and remains to this day, the great gift of Palestine, a gift that Europe has long desecrated. Irish people understand this great gift and for the most part give it too.

Jews, Christians, Muslims and others lived side by side, their days numbered by their different cycles of religious celebration, marked by marriages, shared economies, shared cultural arts, shared lands, shared water.

Zionism

The phrase "Jewish self-hatred" (Jüdischer Selbsthass) was coined and popularized by German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing in his 1930 book Der Jüdische Selbsthass, building on earlier ideas from journalist Anton Kuh, to describe intellectual Jews criticizing their own people, though the concept's origins trace to early 20th-century discussions about Jewish identity, inferiority complexes, and societal persecution.

Zionism, which then took up that horrific take on the Jewish peoples struggle against those who deployed the bigotry of anti-semitism as a political, social and culturally curated weaponisation of non-Jewish peoples, the Christian and secular European Rullng Oligarchies, is inherently a hatred of being Jewish in that it is a hatred of the fact of historical European Anti-Semitism ("I hate that I am Jewish and oppressed because of my Jewishness") and the lived experience of Jewish communities, generation after generation, the exhaustion of relentless bigotry, wishing to then hide behind an Iron Wall.

For Zionism the Iron Wall was to be built on other people's lands, in Palestine.

Jabotinksy in 1923 wrote an essay titled 'The Iron Wall', in which he made it very clear that the Zionists needed to violently expell those peoples, because they would not willingly leave their lands, their farms, villages, towns and cities to make way for the Zionists. He also stated that Zionists would never be able to make any form of agreement that integrated the Arab Palestinians into the Zionist State.

Zionists rejected Mutual Aid

Zionists were not seeking solidarity amongst the peoples of Europe to challenge the mutual oppressions of Racism, Misogyny, Anti-Semitism, Sectarianism and Xenophobia and and thus dismantle the European Hierarchy of Wealth-as-Power which oppresses us all.

And in that, Zionism left itself open to becoming the Weapon of the European Wealth-as-Power Cult, and as such has no validity in Judaism or any other Faith.

And it is not for Jewish peoples alone to confront all of this, it is for all of us to do so, collectively, energetically until the oppression of our respective ruling class wealth-as-power cults are dismantled and their oppression is no more.

Free Palestine! Free Europe!

Free the people from the oppressions of Wealth-as-Power.

Saorise don Fhalestín!

I would urge all European citizens to confront the fact of anti-Semitism as a European Problem to be confronted and challenged and dismantled by Europeans, so that being Jewish or any other Faith has no bearing on how a person is related to and treated, institutionally, culturally or personally..

A separate homeland for every group assaulted by bigotry is not a solution.

We share the air, the water, the sunlight, the moonlight and gut bacteria...

The solution to curated systemic bigotry is to hold these who curate it accountable and to ensure all our education systems educate our youth in all of this.

I'm dreaming of a diverse Christmas.

Billions of people are dreaming of a diverse Christmas, Hannukah, Laylat al-Raghaib, Yuletide..

Kindest regards

Corneilius

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Governments are temporary, States are more or less permanent.

Governments are temporary, States are more or less permanent.

That said, every current Government is the entity responsible for present day State action and behaviour.

Therefore for every past behaviour that has caused avoidable harm by not avoiding causing that harm, when the State could have avoided it, it is the responsibility of the current Government to address and correct that shituation, including holding the State accountable, making reparations and changing behaviour in the present and into the future so that action causing harms are always avoided, prevented from being done again.

The same applies to every Institution that holds some power - News Papers, Corporations, Religions, Armies and so forth.

With this in mind...

Someone who represents or controls vast wealth should NEVER have private or semi-public lobbying meetings with Legislators, without the meeting being fully minuted, recorded and included in Legislative Records, where the electorate can read them.

Then fact that they can and do have this facility in private means that they have more influence upon elected officials than the people who elected them.

The straight up undermines very principle of Healthy Democratic Governance.

If the owners and representatives of Wealth want to advise Legislators it should be fully public, with its aims and objectives fully exposed to the electorate, with the electorate empowered to voice back on the suggestions of Wealth and to take a central role in the deliberations on policy.

It is not democracy to vote for an elected official and leave it at that.

That's a popularity contest, and one that is all too easily exploited and manipulated.

21st Century Governance has to dismantle the 18th Century systems still operating because it is those systems that have led us directly into Genocides and Climate Disruption as Business Models. We need a re-boot, informed by evidence and the unmet needs of the people.

Genocides and Climate Disruption are Business Models.

They are not merely bad behaviour by a few bad humans - they are an intrinsic part of the Wealth-as-Power Business Model.

Cults as a business model - Wealth-as-Power and The State.

This is true of almost every Western Democracy. This is true of almost every State. This is true of almost every current Power structure predicated on Wealth-as-Power.

The Cult of The Flag, the Cult of the Military, the Cult of the innate superiority of the Wealthy above the impoverished.

Wealth-as-Power, as a political force requires that a minority have the leverage to exploit a majority in ways that allow the minority to extract wealth from the majority and then deploy it as a weapon to maintain the systems of extraction, no matter the costs to the majority. It requires that that minority internalises a sense of entitlement to their dominating position. That is a cult belief operating system.

Wealth-as-Power is a cult.

A belief system rooted in a Power Disparity that enables the minority to exploit the majority.

Every person who waves the flag of National Identity, be it pride or rage, has internalised an identity crafted by external Power, to bind them to the State as a Power, and by inference, to the purpose of those who wield that Power, at an emotional and irrationally secure level within their psyche.

I was attending an anti-racism rally this weekend and one speaker cried out 'Yes to Race, no to Racism!'

Race does not exist in reality, it is a concept crafted in the British Colonies as a means to weaponise European Workers, freed and indentured, against non-European workers, freed and indentured.

The acceptance of Race as a reality is the very root of Racism.

The acceptance of National Identity is the very root of Xenophobia.

The acceptance of Genderism is the very root of Misogyny.

We are persons, first and foremost.

We are all persons within the Human species, and the visible differences in skin tone, height, body build, sex are merely the expression of our natural variations, none of which change the fact of personhood. Those visible differences are biologically irrelevant, precisely because our brains are persons, fluid persons that adapt to local conditions, as a fundamental evolutionary attribute that allows us to live anywhere, with creativity, intelligence, solidarity and success.

That I speak English and this other person might speak Farsi, and another Chinese does not change the fact of our shared personhood one iota.

Our livers, lungs, kidneys might be suitable for a transplant, and would not hold our national identity or our language, our gender or our height, as a barrier.

Egalitarian cultures understood the nature of healthy, autonomous connected personhood as the floor of a healthy family, community or society.

Hierarchy cultures always undermine the person, and elevate the instrumentalised body as the defining characteristic. Men have men roles, women have women roles, children should be obedient, and follow suit.

Wealth-as-Power from War Lords to Kings, Emperors to Popes, Great Leaders to Presidents are pretty much all we know because Wealth-as-Power has slaughtered almost every egalitarian society as it has expanded.

Solidarity is egalitarian at its best.

If we humans are to have a long term future, that solidarity is what we will need to build, within our psyches and as our societal infrastructure.

'Belief' is not the same as evidence.

Capitalism is a political and economic belief system that causes harm, and avoids holding itself accountable for the harms it causes. It denies, ignores the evidence that this is so. This is fundamentally unsafe.

'Belief' is not the same as evidence.

Anyone making policy on the basis of belief rather than the available evidence is unsafe.

I might believe that money is inherently evil. If I applied that to policy I would make really useless policy.

I might believe that Satan is a real force, when it is clear there is no material evidence whatsoever for the existence of Satan. If I made policy on the basis of my belief in and fear of Satan, I would make really unhealthy policy.

One ought to make policy on the basis of whatever causes avoidable harm must always be avoided. Basic Health and Safety.

I might believe in God, but I cannot bring that belief to policy formulation - it is a belief, and without material evidence, it has no relevance to public policy, other than that it is a matter of freedom of belief - one can believe what ever one chooses.

I can believe in golden faeries in my garden.

But I cannot bring that to policy deliberations.

I understand that Climate Disruption is driven by excess CO2 poured into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, by deforestation, by agricultural practice that degrades the soil and by militarism's warfare.

The evidence for all these is well documented.

Taking all these into consideration, with a view to avoiding avoidable harm, I might make healthier policy.

Some people believe that misogyny is the natural order, that women are inferior to men, the 'weaker sex', etc and some believe that women should serve men, sexually and as submissive partners.

Those people make really adverse policy that causes harm when it comes to human rights of women, education, wage equality, power equity, gender violence.

Acknowledging that belief as a false belief, and talking the evidence that men and women are persons, with brains and minds, fully capable of the kinds of thinking required to solve problems, we might make healthier policy.

"a problem incorrectly understood is insoluble, and problem correctly understood is half way towards a solution".

That is a fundamental axiom that anyone involved in public, elected civil governance really ought to be focussed on.

Equality and Equity are not the same thing.

Often 'being equal' is offered as a way of joining in the hierarchy - Women in Combat Teams for example, or Women as CEOs or line managers of environmentally destructive commercial operations.

It means being equal to the men who are causing harm.

It is a slight of hand, a mask.

Equitable inclusion has to lead to cessation of harm causation, reparations, accountability and forwards policy that eliminates the harm causation.... otherwise it is a set-up to maintain the harm causation.