and in how they relate to and treat the most vulnerable people within their society.
Heal that and we can heal everything.
If Britain is occupied, who are the occupiers?
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.
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Wealth Extraction vs International Democracy. Brexit is a precedent. Selfish as an interest, a faux philosophy, a meme of the bully cults political power base.
The ruling of the USSC on Roe vs Wade is designed to harden divisions across the USA - belief that Christianity needs to expand and dominate, belief that Christianity is under threat of a 'birth dearth', belief that US Military Power is a benign, honourable culture, belief that peoples sexual pleasure is a threat to society, belief that Capitalism is the best way to organise a society, belief that the poor and destitute are inferior and have only themselves to blame, belief that Race is a biologically, God given stratification - belief imposes it's will, and ignores the evidence, the knowledge, and sets up an endless brain-offline war of nasty attrition, as the believers refuse to acknowledge the knowledge, and dig their heels in, emotions flared, frontal cortex off-lined, amygdala over loaded, guns at the ready.
The underlying pattern this odious dynamic misGovernment is revealing is simple.
In the UK the attempt to break the terms of the Brexit Agreement regarding Northern Ireland may appear crazy, yet if one takes a wider look, something else emerges, and although it too is insane, and ugly, it makes sense of the attempt to legislate English Law to break an international treaty. Unilaterally, ditching negotiations.
They know exactly what they are doing and their sponsors do too. They know exactly what they are aiming for, strategically. A Free-Market fundamentalist State, Sovereign and selfish.
What appears to be incompetence is not what it seems. Indeed the charge of incompetence provides a cover for the nature of the program they are pushing - 'incompetence' is easier pill to swallow than plainly evil. Evil is causing harm and denying it, in order to exploit a situation. That choice is evil. And no-one wants to see it, because to see it is to awaken to a need for deliberate and determined solidarity based political action that entails effort, vulnerability, potential stress and failure. A scary ask for anyone.
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Laws that make protest a criminal offence, laws that remove democratic Human Rights, laws that protect the Wealth Extraction and sanction the impoverished, laws that impede oversight of Government, laws that allow Government to ignore court rulings, laws that allow secret service, military and police and others to commit crimes in the course of their work to 'protect the nation', laws that criminalise poverty, laws that permit pollution of our waterways, laws that undermine almost every element of a functioning democracy (not that we have ever had a functioning healthy democracy - the existence of a ruling class makes that ideal impossible.)
A legislative war against democratic legislation and regulation of industrial wealth extraction rooted in externalised costs, even as those costs cause harm to hundreds of millions, and potentially billions of people, and our shared environment.
The ruling of the USSC on Roe vs Wade is also designed to harden divisions across the USA - belief imposes it's will, and ignores the evidence, the knowledge, and sets up an endless war of attrition, as the believers refuse to acknowledge the knowledge, and dig their heels in, emotions flared, frontal cortex off-lined, guns at the ready.
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Why are the Oligarchy at War against Healthy Democracy?
here's why, in a brief outline.
The Fossil Fuel and Mining Oligarchy knew about Climate Disruption 50 years ago. Their own Scientists confirmed it. The Shareholders decided to deny the Science. They wanted to keep drilling, producing, maintain and increase consumption in order to amass ever more Wealth as Power.
That makes them culpable for the avoidable harms they chose not to avoid.
That culpability also makes them liable for the costs of the harms caused, and other ancillary costs associated with all of this.
They KNOW this.
They understand that if ANY Democratic Legislature upholds, enforces or passes Laws to hold them accountable that they will lose their Wealth and more importantly, they will lose the Political Power as a Ruling Class Lobby.
This they have chosen to not cede.
They are therefore waging an all out war against Democratic Accountability.
Most ordinary people do not understand this because we are still fixated on the idea of Greed for Money rather than the matter of Wealth as Power, Wealth as a Ruling Lobby that dictates how society is to be run.
This war is a war against all of us, irrespective of our political leanings.
Solidarity is the only power we can exert. This they know and that is why they spend so much energy on dividing us......
When we build a rational solidarity, their Rule is over.
I wrote this as a short explanation of Healthy Governance - if it existed at all healthy governance would regulate toxic industry and excessive wealth extraction.
Boris Johnson is the perfect symbol of this loss.
It also requires that the State works with the population as partners, equals in the effort. Ruling over a population will not deliver the social cohesion necessary to supress the virus.
The Free Market claim to be the best possible economic system would be seen as the falsehood it is.
The Free Market Fundamentalists have been writing about the collapse of the Welfare State for decades.
Which is ironic, because once again, they cannot but confess by their behaviour who they really are and what they are really like and how much disdain they hold for us ordinary people - by refusing to suppress the virus in the community, they have proved that the NeoLiberal Free Market Ideology will not protect the people's right to health, and that by choice, it does not support the people in a wide range of important areas.
I wrote a blog exploring a metric for genuinely healthy governance, based on evidence, nurturing community and environment, preventing harm.
https://dwylcorneilius.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-metric-for-governance-uk-election-2017.html
"I think of Healthy Governance as being focused on the practical realities of administering a communities shared resources for the equal benefit of all members of that community.
In the case of States, and in relation to healthy Governance we can apply this metric of care to taxation, which is collected from all, in one way or another, by the State, and is therefore a primary community shared resource. Healthy governance will determine that that resource is deployed with wisdom and equity to nurture the whole population."
Billionaires funded Cambridge Analytica and Trump and Brexit.
Social belief divisions
They are not at war with Russia, but with us, their citizens, over Climate Change and Covid.
That's the struggle we are in.
Solidarity and evidence, and grass roots political organisation and action, and the taxation stream of democracies are the powers the grass roots can muster.
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