The Psychology of a culture is revealed and perpetuated in how they relate to and treat their children and in how they relate to and treat the most vulnerable people within their society. Heal that and we can heal everything.
If one is to discuss politics, then one has to start with the subject of bullying.
The careful avoidance of that issue protects the system of institutionalised bullying that has emerged over time. Such discussions are futile.
Unless we talk about bullying as the core of Political and Economic Power as we know it today, and attempt to understand the dynamic of bullying and it's origins, and then examine how best to prevent such bullying, we are going nowhere.
Left, right, communism, neoliberalism, facism, green whatever......
Talk about those once the matter of bullying has been resolved, then we might be getting somewhere that is of real and lasting value.
These my thoughts on some of the political issues I believe to be critical in the next year and beyond.
There's much more detail out there than I can indicate here, and I am attempting to reveal a thread that I think is the backbone of the system of hierarchical violence, and thus crucial to it's continuation, and therefore a vulnerability to be leveraged.
Equality? Feminism?
The issue needs clarification.
'Equality' means what exactly?
How does it stand for a single mother on low income?
How does it stand for a young muslim teen, facing 'terrorism'?
How does it stand for a refugee?
How does it stand for a child? An elder? A disabled person?
How does it stand for a civilian caught in the cross fire of war?
As it stands, it seems that for official feminism, that it means 'behaving the same as the men doing the job, and getting the same pay'. And the argument is about the pay scale, rather than what the job itself is and what it's effects are.
Which is all about conformity, rather than diversity. The job is protected. It WILL get done.
Feminism, at root, is about the fact that any embodied wisdom and experience of being a woman in the current dominant cultural setting is set aside in matters of Governance, social organisation, spirituality, economics and power.
Implicit in that is access the embodied wisdom and experience of being a man in the current dominant cultural setting is also limited, controlled, determined by 'social mores' which are artifacts rather than biological absolutes.
Love is a biological absolute, for us humans and many other species.... Power is a operational absolute for those who Rule.
Good governance is another matter.
We need to understand the distinction.
Name the behaviour. Name the outcome.
Punishment, spanking and violence.
It's all about adult power, powerlessness and displaced anger.
The adults submit to a violent hierarchy and lose something of the soul, and this hurts, and hurt that remains unresolved often turns to anger, and in time to rage. It is not safe to vent that anger at authority, so it leaks out. Irritations that lead to outbursts of violence.
It has to be justified, or else the question arises : 'Why am I SO angry?' and that exposes the individual to his or her deep sense of loss, though they have to see through the rage first to get to that. So not an easy ask. That’s quite a lot of stress for many, many people.
As if in compensation millions of people read and consume the Daily Mail, The Guardian, watch the TV, vote for 'traditional democracy', get a mortgage and repeat what little they have been spun from all of that as 'news', but the sense of safety is tenuous.
There is a process whereby children are the recipients of parents neuroses, which is largely unwitting, inn intended, and this then is further complicated and obscured by the effects of sophisticated marketing and propaganda, which targets those unresolved emotions, enervating them, deliberately, and people wonder why some children experience difficulties? Or become adults with serious issues?
And factor in if a child grows up in a war zone, or a place of constant violence? What kind of future is that experience preparing the child for?
And that is what it comes down to with slapping and any violence by adults perpetrated against children. It has a purpose, an outcome that is valued by those Institutions which exercise power over populations, and which all to readily stoop to violence to maintain and project their power.
And it’s all 100% avoidable. There is nothing inevitable about the levels of violence we are seeing throughout the dominant culture.
There is hope because the sciences are clear on this.
Saudi Arabia and the UN Commission on Human Rights.
A State that is operating a lethal punitive code that is determined by Wahhabist Religious ideology, and which undermines all concepts of Human Rights Legislation and is unquestionably cruel and barbaric CANNOT participate as a leader in a Human Rights Forum without undermining the basis of that forum.
Obviously!
Likewise a state that is prosecuting a lethal war that is determined by Economic and political ideology, and which undermines all concepts of Human Rights Legislation and is unquestionably cruel and barbaric CANNOT participate as a leader in a Human Rights Forum without undermining the basis of that forum. Which excludes The UK, the USA and others…
Bullies and Liberation.
When confronting any bully the narrative is the harm they are causing and how to stop it, nothing else matters.
Once that is done, then the finer details can be worked on
What the bully wears, believes in or justifies is irrelevant.
It's not a conspiracy theory to say that those who 'traditionally ' hold power do all they can to retain, enhance and project that power and that they need our money to do that.
Good Question!
So we are taught that "love of money is the root of all evil."
I wondered why?
And this is what I came up with.
Because the money is all about the power - without the money, OUR MONEY, they could not do what they do.
Their pretensions to power would be impossible with the money.
Better that a vast majority of people believe in the greed as a motivator, than become aware of the kind of human psychology that seeks power above all else, and is willing to use extreme violence, that is grooming us for our compliance, which power needs.
The issue is power vs healthy relationships that nurture.
When one looks into modern endocrinology, for example, which can now describe the differences between a healthy functioning endocrine system and one that has suffered shock or is dysfunctional in some manner and plot a correlation with the health of the individual,we begin to see something else as well.
This evidence suggests that a healthy state of empathic, autonomous, connected extended family into community relationship is the base line of optimal human biological health.
That is when the hormonal cascading within the human being is working at its optimal state. The specific chemical interactions, messaging, outcomes of healthy functioning are known.
This basically happy state is the baseline of optimal human biological health, for another reason : it contains within that the ability to deal with sudden shocks, occasional illnesses, accidents and direct threats in productive, creative and healing ways. We live in a dynamic bio-space, the surface of Earth.We are elastic, we must flow with regard to those dynamics, or we make life more difficult and more complicated for ourselves.
Conditions are always, always, moving.
There has to be room for mood variation, for sadness and anger, rage and fear.
What we find is that space, that recovery ability is much reduced if stressors become chronic, unending, inevitable. Then we see the breakdown of endocrine system function, along with a host of other symptoms.
In other words we are already perfectly adapted for Peace, and like all organisms, we need a nurturant environment as Mothers, infants and children to develop those qualities through experience, into adulthood.
We are not adapted for chronic stress. I think that is made rather obvious by the massive size of the NHS and the relative health of our Society, both physically and psychologically.
Indeed there are no organisms that we know of that are adapted TO chronic stress.
Trolls in the Public Domain - a healthy approach to a common problem.
Be it muslim people, christians, jews, germans, disabled on benefits, unemployed, out of favour foreign leaders or attention seeking celebrities, facists, anti-facists, conspiracy theorists, covert agents, or mad, angry, frustrated, desperate people, when ad hominems are deployed in the media, it's a mirror of 19th Public School Boy behaviour, hazing, joshing with intent, pecking orders, corporal punishment for the mind, etc ......
And with actual military power in the hands of the Governing bullies, (political realism does not forget that aspect of power) that makes things a little more complicated.
For everybody. It's a bio-psyche-social issue.
When trolling infiltrates political and policy discussions,matters of ethics, war and corruption, everybody loses. We are all dehumanised by trolling it is nasty, agressive, disturbing behaviour and profoundly immature.
Nonetheless......
Trolling is a form of bullying, it is a tactic of intentional emotional abuse and it is ultimately a weakness.. one has to understands that, and utilise it.
When there is no viable substance to the ad hominems, no mention or rational discussion of the policies, the principles, the ethics or the corruption. Just the insult. That is all useless information. The only information contained in such assaults is that the writer is a bully. That's ALL it is.
And how best to deal with trolls? How do you undermine the bully?
This is my take on this. This is how I say 'No!'. and how I try to turn it onto a 'Yes!'.
I ignore the insult and treat it as a bit of information; depersonalise it. I do not let it get to me. It's all in the bullies head. All over his keyboard.
Then, I respond if I wish to engage, and use the incident by identifying the bullying as such, point out that it is a known and rather obvious tactic that to maintain a false narrative in the face of facts by disrupting a discussion and initiating or antagonising an aggressive argument to derail the discussion. I then dismiss that as immature behaviour, in polite terms, of course.
"It ain't working, Buddy! These fish are not biting on that bait!"
... and then I attempt to reframe the narrative, articulate the policy, the principle, the ethic in the context of all the evidence available, and bring it back on subject, and suggest the resolution of the matter.
And I ensure that I keep each expression as clear as I can, irrespective of the reaction.
It's never just the few who are writing, it's all those who also read, and observe the discourse.
Amongst the readers who read that will be some who are on the edge of understanding and who will learn from this. Others will find reassurance. Some will be enlightened.
That way I USE the troll to clarify the issue, in public, for the benefit of all. Call it performance art, call it a waste of time, call it what you will.
I do it without reacting to the insult, or being drained by it.
I learned the hard way, slowly.
I aspire to do it with an optimally functioning endocrine system, to do it with LOVE!
And it doesn't always work.
We must lead.
We have to lead.
We have to become the directors of Government, local and national, by doing both we become truly international.
I call for The Resolution.
Not a revolution, not a repetition of a cycle from a fixed point. A resolution of the problems that are resolvable, that are problems in human relationships, that are subject to choice, volition - these are all resolvable matters.
I pray for the healthy resolution of conflict, pollution, corruption, bullying. That is where I am headed. A healthy humane society. We have been there before and it was good. We have it in us.
And when I write the word 'we', I am thinking of many cultures, languages, accents, shades and this includes all the decent people, whatever our belief systems and experiences are, we are good people who can work across diversity to find the common humanity in all matters, and we must engage .... the genuine lovers of life must unite as a Governing force. It's a miracle that we still retain that immense humanity in the face of what we are born into, what we are presented with.
Let's use that miracle.
From the grassroots, from the bacterial populations within our guts that make our lives possible, from the deepest of our humanity, the bottom of what you might call my soul, as a biological species standing for itself.
Nurturing life is our primary biological directive.
However, the facts are that we are born into a Hierarchically Violent Power System that consistently disrupts this mandate. It suggest our mandate is to dominate, conquer and alter the living world to meet the needs of 'Civilisation', by which it means maintaining the distal social and material power over all.
Because the conditioning by the behaviour of Distal Power and the outcomes of
that behaviour are ubiquitous, everywhere we turn we face the adverse outcomes, the chronic stress induced upon parenting, fathering and mothering, is ever present.
The grooming of children and electorates by Power
Institutions is constant. The threat of destitution and war ever present. No child left behind. No tribe left untouched.
Thus the recent media led discussions about the 'Tax on Tampons as a Luxury' did not bring up this: that
women and men learn or are taught to hate menstruation, to relate to menstruation as something disgusting, a taboo subject. We are taught to dislike a key aspect of the way the human body functions, to distance from the embodied wisdom of our creative
response ability in nurturing life itself.
That men and women internalise
the 'rules' of the social and political systems into which we are born, in order to sit within them is obvious. And that reliance on external definitions of who we are and what is truly healthy is what generates an internal conflict, which in turn leads to a subtle self loathing and an undermining of the natural emergent self.
From flags to parades, from statist identity to religion the internalisation is obvious to me, and many of us. It happens easily as children assume the world they grow into is normality, naturally enough. If the social material constructs and the biological world are not congruent, then that can become a problem.
Nurturing life is our primary biological mandate.
Some people feel I go too far.
Obviously, I do not.
I
see and understand what is called 'rape culture' aka misogyny as part of the same overall cultural
power dynamic of hierarchy of resource and power that undermines natural parenting, fathering and mothering. I understand this as a dynamic that disrupts the evolved optimally healthy child bonding attachment processes mandated by our very biology
as the basis of long term psychological and physical health.
I understand that any system that treats
children as economic units to be conditioned, bodies to be trained and constrained for the work
place to serve the economy, and that launches war as a policy
enforcement tool is a toxic system.
I can defend my position with scientifically examined evidence, insight, compassion and clarity.... and I will every time.
Nurturing life is our primary biological directive.
“women are still the poorer sex, doing two-thirds of the
world’s work, including growing most of their families’ food. We remain the
primary carers everywhere: for children and for sick, disabled and elderly
people, within the family and outside, in war as in peace. In 90 per cent of UK families the
primary carer is a woman. Seventy-nine per cent of
austerity cuts have targeted women – that is, carers and those we
care for. While the 1 per cent more than doubled their income in the last 10
years, and the arms trade has grown by 22 per cent, one billion children
worldwide live in poverty, 3.7m in the UK and 176,565 surviving on food
banks. Society cannot survive without caring, yet carers are undermined not
supported.” She is 100% correct. Nina devotes her time and energy into supporting women who have been abused, traumatised, harmed and maimed in seeking justice through the courts.
Nurturing life is our primary biological directive.
and Selma James, in an article the Guardian commissioned, yet did not publish.
"It is
women who have been the target of every attack on the welfare state.
It’s not news that jobs women have lost were often waged service and
caring work, and that women as unwaged carers have been deprived of the
services they need to do their job. What job? Why, reproducing the
human race. How did that get sidelined? Austerity attacks carers first
of all. In 90% of families the primary carer is a woman. Austerity is
sexist.
We have got used to measuring sexism by lack of female access to the
commanding heights of the economy and politics, that is, by the very few
women realising their personal ambition. Thus we may not recognise
pervasive and even life-threatening sexism when it hits us.
Yvette
Cooper, a contender for Labour’s leadership wants the party of labourers
to prioritise women’s capability for ‘the top jobs’. As Secretary of
State for Work and Pensions she brought in the Welfare Reform Act 2009
which abolished Income Support and extended Labour’s infamous Work
Capability Assessment for sick and disabled people.
The money that
recognised unwaged caring work, enabled single mothers to leave violent
men, and allowed disabled people to live independent lives, is largely
gone or under threat. No one knows how many disabled people have died
as a result: the government refuses to publish the figures.
Women have been the prime targets of all three austerity parties
since it is caring they’re attacking. Women are ‘workless’ according to
Tony Blair and his ‘Babes’ unless we do what men are supposed to do, go
out to work – not for the top jobs but the zero-hour contracts at the
bottom."
and
"Jeremy Corbyn offers women 50 per cent of his shadow cabinet, but
with anti-sexist policies, including not only free childcare but the
‘recognition and valuing’ of women’s unremunerated caring work. Women
coming in on a rising popular tide, could build on that for the rest of
us – we could call them to account on the basis of this programme.
We are told that if Corbyn wins, Labour won’t be electable.
Anti-austerity not calls for independence won the SNP its 56 MPs.
The
maiden speech of Mhairi Black made it clear that in following
anti-austerity she did not leave Labour; Labour left her. It is a kind
of political corruption that assumes that his popularity augurs badly
for electability."
Nurturing life is our primary biological directive. And it depends utterly upon healthy, honest, nurturing relationships at all levels of our Society.Any abuse of power is an intentional act, a corruption of our relationships that will pollute and diminish our lives, our entire social system.
women
are still the poorer sex, doing two-thirds of the world’s work,
including growing most of their families’ food. We remain the primary
carers everywhere: for children and for sick, disabled and elderly
people, within the family and outside, in war as in peace. In 90 per
cent of UK families the primary carer is a woman. Seventy-nine per cent of austerity cuts have targeted women – that
is, carers and those we care for. While the 1 per cent more than
doubled their income in the last 10 years, and the arms trade has grown
by 22 per cent, one billion children worldwide live in poverty, 3.7m in
the UK and 176,565 surviving on food banks. Society cannot survive
without caring, yet carers are undermined not supported. - See more at:
http://www.bigissuenorth.com/2015/11/why-dont-we-just-pay-a-living-wage-to-mothers-and-other-carers/15383#sthash.nrgkTnJm.dpuf
women
are still the poorer sex, doing two-thirds of the world’s work,
including growing most of their families’ food. We remain the primary
carers everywhere: for children and for sick, disabled and elderly
people, within the family and outside, in war as in peace. In 90 per
cent of UK families the primary carer is a woman. Seventy-nine per cent of austerity cuts have targeted women – that
is, carers and those we care for. While the 1 per cent more than
doubled their income in the last 10 years, and the arms trade has grown
by 22 per cent, one billion children worldwide live in poverty, 3.7m in
the UK and 176,565 surviving on food banks. Society cannot survive
without caring, yet carers are undermined not supported. - See more at:
http://www.bigissuenorth.com/2015/11/why-dont-we-just-pay-a-living-wage-to-mothers-and-other-carers/15383#sthash.nrgkTnJm.dpuf
women
are still the poorer sex, doing two-thirds of the world’s work,
including growing most of their families’ food. We remain the primary
carers everywhere: for children and for sick, disabled and elderly
people, within the family and outside, in war as in peace. In 90 per
cent of UK families the primary carer is a woman. Seventy-nine per cent of austerity cuts have targeted women – that
is, carers and those we care for. While the 1 per cent more than
doubled their income in the last 10 years, and the arms trade has grown
by 22 per cent, one billion children worldwide live in poverty, 3.7m in
the UK and 176,565 surviving on food banks. Society cannot survive
without caring, yet carers are undermined not supported. - See more at:
http://www.bigissuenorth.com/2015/11/why-dont-we-just-pay-a-living-wage-to-mothers-and-other-carers/15383#sthash.nrgkTnJm.dpuf
women
are still the poorer sex, doing two-thirds of the world’s work,
including growing most of their families’ food. We remain the primary
carers everywhere: for children and for sick, disabled and elderly
people, within the family and outside, in war as in peace. In 90 per
cent of UK families the primary carer is a woman. Seventy-nine per cent of austerity cuts have targeted women – that
is, carers and those we care for. While the 1 per cent more than
doubled their income in the last 10 years, and the arms trade has grown
by 22 per cent, one billion children worldwide live in poverty, 3.7m in
the UK and 176,565 surviving on food banks. Society cannot survive
without caring, yet carers are undermined not supported. - See more at:
http://www.bigissuenorth.com/2015/11/why-dont-we-just-pay-a-living-wage-to-mothers-and-other-carers/15383#sthash.nrgkTnJm.dpuf
Do not "calm down, dear!"
This matter is way to central to our lives and the lives of our children's children, to whom we, the adult worlds, owes a profound and ultimately liberating, nourishing responsibility.
Remember, remember the 5th of November, then Remembrance Sunday.
It ought to be grief, horror and outrage rather than Nationalism and Celebration of Sacrifice. Guy Fawkes was Terrorist, a Catholic Jihadist. Tony Blair is a Catholic Jihadist. Both liars and psychopaths.
Joe Glenton speaks of war from direct experience and reflection. Watch this and forget about my polemic. really.
The theme of violence and the State's appropriation of 'our violence is a patriotic and civilising violence' and therefore moral, whereas the violence of 'our enemies' is always barbaric, primitive, dysfunctional and amoral.
What history tells us is that when a movement emerges within any population that seeks to strike parity between the State and the Grass roots of society, the poor, the vulnerable, the working for a living, the State introduces and escalates violence on all sides.
Northern Ireland, a different perspective.
In Northern Ireland, the Civil Rights movement was less a Catholic or Independence phenomenon than it was a civil rights awareness phenomenon that emerged as a direct result of the Civil Rights movements in the US, from African Americans to Women and Children's rights.... a matter of common decency and humane respect.
The State perceived this as a threat, rather than the healing it was offering.
The UK State infiltrated violent militia on all sides, and it's agents escalated the violence, and this put the matter of Civil Rights to one side, and allowed the UK State to alter the discourse, to make it about Irish Nationalism vs Unionism.... that was a strategic tactic.
It was already in practice in Yemen, in Korea and Vietnam, in the Philippines and many South American countries, in Africa and Australia and Canada, in Russia and China, across the Middle East.
Remember, remember.
So remember, remember the realities - that State violence, in the competing powers perspective, is the primary source of warfare, of trauma, of inter-generational psychological and emotional dysfunction and the preservation of mass poverty (war impoverishes all but the makers of the tools of war).
The Monarchy and the State (Established Power) as we know it is altering the climate of human relationships in the most adverse ways, and has been doing so for thousands of years - that 'competition' is psychopathic, is a pathology, an illness, a self inflicted disease state and they continually make great efforts to indoctrinate their home populations into accepting war as part and parcel of human nature. It's not. It's a cultural distortion, born of hierarchies of violence.
Spot the difference?
I'd like to see THAT climate change addressed as part of the issue of 'Climate Change'. - I think that success in the former would help the latter, whereas failure in the former ensures the latter will not be dealt with.
Remember, remember. Think, question, analyse, reflect and grow. Or not.
Heroes
Heroes? The troops?
They would not call themselves heroes.
1. They are trained to be that way - to remain competent under fire, so they can better protect each other, and be willing and capable of killing the enemy. Iraq was not a matter of defence, it was a matter of offence.
2. Calling them heroic is part of how the conditioning, the acceptance
of military violence is maintained. It masks the reality of applied
organised violence. It papers over the reality of shredded limbs, displaced peoples, torture, rape, poison, mass destruction, industrialised killing, indoctrination and bullying, which is what war really is.
3. They never use the word themselves, and not out of humility - rather they know what violence is like, and that it is not heroic. Yes, there are times when courage is shown. Sometimes those who desert are the bravest.
Soldiers are human beings who have been conditioned, lied to, manipulated and placed in harms way. As soon as the violence starts, they have to take action. They have no choice if they wish to survive.
To truly support the troops, we do not need to wave flags as they depart, we need to prevent that departure and that entail breaking the spell The State/Established Power casts over the population, destroying the propaganda with logic, evidence, empathy, kindness and determination.
And that means honesty, truth, the evidence over opinion, ideology and spin.
Prevention
For
me, this is the issue : the matter of the prevention of the creation of
yet more veterans. It matters more now than ever, in as much as the
past few decades we have allowed the Government of the UK to initiate
and escalate wars and violence across the Middle East.
Whilst preciously little effort was put into prevention, or conflict resolution.
The logic of Powers competing for Hegemony and access to 'resources' still dominates politics.
This is insane, it is pathological and as we see, lethal.
How can it stand?
The
hypocrisy is rank, the stench of dying by violence is blanked out, and
we are opiated, sedated and disempowered intentionally so that the
supply of potential candidates for combat veteranship is maintained.
Wear
a Poppy. And if you mean it, then act to stop your Government from using
War as a policy enforcement tool. And stop private companies from
making profits from war.
Halloween
I don't celebrate Hallowe'en in such fashion as is current 'fashionable' : it is largely a post-Celtic Christianised bastardised version of much older shamanic practices, where the practice was to engage with and feel a part of and honour the ancestry, that long, long line of experience and living, a line of nurturing experience within which in the older egalitarian societies placed themselves in their present and looked to how they could nurture the futures ahead of them, as their ancestors did. To draw on that wisdom.
Fully conscious. Fully present. Fully mature.
The post-Celtic Christianised bastardised version revolves around the gargoyle, the fear of the dead, the fear of 'bad spirits' and bears no sense of one's responsibility to the future, nor does it carry forwards the example of the past as a role model.
It's shite, trite and painfully insulting to the ancestry and the future children....
The Celts were violent hierarchies, just as the Romans were, so the transition was all too easy an assimilation.
I have practiced the call to the ancestry, the call to the future, to place myself fully in the present, and have been practicing this for over 2 decades.
I am a bag of bacteria, an aboriginal humane being and I reject the culture of the bully in every aspect, and I embrace the culture of nurture because it is that culture that creates the very possibility of a life of great beauty without the need for 'additives' or luxuries, power or grandiose monuments.
Remembrance.
This is another reason I experience deep distaste, a disgust with the various War Dead Remembrance Ceremonies of the 'good and the great', the pomp and circumstance, and the political abuse of people's genuine concern for the dead, the maimed, the refugees, the sufferings of war.
For all we claim, we have done nothing to undermine the Governments willingness to use War as a policy enforcement tool. Successive Governments have piled more dead upon dead, created yet more refugees, maimed and traumatised countless innocent, beautiful human souls and destroyed the shared resources of many varied and functional living communities, rendering them un-inhabitable.
There can be no peace, no equality without empathy. Empathy for the
children, the mothers, the fathers, the civilians who are forced to flee
for their lives.
Empathy for those children whose best option appears to them to be to
enlist in a State Military or a street gang, or a terrorist militia....
And empathy as a means to understanding the mind of that kind of power
that rules, the social conditioning of that power that rules rather than
governs. That too.
What I mean is that we must develop an accurate, evidence based understanding of those who bully, who abuse their power and we must understand their psychology and their techniques .
Know the mind of those who would call YOU
an enemy of the State because you desire and aspire towards a State that
nurtures peace, community, egalitarianism, justice and kindness.
The Poppy
The people who wear the Poppy and hold Power.... are not the same as
the people who wear poppies to commemorate and remember those who died of State induced Violence, out of sadness and regret, but are similar to those who celebrate the
'victory' of War, the 'sacrifice' of millions of people, the 'freedom won' .... because they
have been taught to think that the myth of being slaughtered 'for
freedom' is heroic, that it was a freely entered into choice of those
who were slaughtered.
It was not.
No civilian population ever chose war against other civilians. The majority of troops did not choose war. A majority were conscripts, in one way or another because it is always the leaders, the political power players who chose war. They chose but do not participate, do not venture near any danger, do not share the burden of blood, guts, tears.
We ordinary folk are and were subjected to intense social conditioning designed to serve
the needs of Power above all else, and so we bought and are buying the lies, we
fought and died, and we will will continue to do so, and it was and is all needless waste, 100% avoidable and it is all predatory abuse.
The troops followed orders that were and are insanely incompetent. The troops in Afghanistan followed orders that were insanely incompetent. There is ample evidence of this.
The Poppy as a symbol was first used to commemorate the lives lost, to accentuate the needlessness of such mass death by violence, to urge a move away from such massive slaughter of both troops and civilians.... but it has been co-opted.
Our political leaders are intent on grooming us, on manipulating information and situations so that they can pursue war as a policy tool. Bearing in mind that there is a massive industry that makes immense profits from that slaughter. A massive industry that funds many of our leading politicians, directly and indirectly.
They who are in power who wear the red poppy, who celebrate 'sacrifice', who lie and cheat and bully, are a danger to the grass roots of humanity.
What do I stand for? What is the closest to my whole being in all of this? I can answer that only for myself.
You, for your self.
This is what I stand for.
I stand for the politic of care. of empathy, of justice, of honesty, of
human value, of love, of shared destiny, of shared habitat, of shared life. I
stand for healthy human relationships where nurture and pleasure are the core
experience.
WE need to Govern, with Corbyn and men and women like him overseeing how
Government implements our evidence based, well researched and informed decision making, enacting our chosen policies with our taxation contributions..
The 'blowback' from trolling (which is what Cameron did to us all in his
Tory Conference address) is the evidence, and it has to be clearly presented.
I try to keep it polite, evidence based and robustly clear as to where the harm
is being caused and by whom.
I aspire to use the trolling, as a foil to publish the truth, to inform.
assure and encourage those other readers, the silent ones, the many!
It's great practice for all sorts of key skills.
Identifying and deflecting triggering, for a start..
Which is a really good one to develop.
Go Jedi on them, use their energy. ;-)
Human grace, honesty and justice. And
Empathy.
Are these not the key markers of optimal human biological health?
It is therefore all about how we relate to one another, how we treat each other, from the
individual level, to the collective.
There is a healthy, humane, biologically sound way to live in relationship
to all others....
Human grace, honesty, empathy and justice. Nurture. These are the attributes of a genuine peace.
There is however, something obscuring that happy biological reality, and that is currently the dominant mode of relationships, something clearly disrupting the biological mandate, and that my friends is the mainstream power behaviour, on all sides, it is what we called in the 60s and 70s 'the straight world', a shituation where a violent
hierarchical power system determines the context and material realities within which most peopleslife experience and relationships occur, and we quite clearly can
see that this is clearly harmful, obviously dysfunctional and anti-democratic.
Violence, dishonesty, psychopathy, injustice and grooming. Might is right.
That's the simplest way to put this.
Apparently, for many people there is something quite disturbing with
pointing that out, in such clear terminology, and then suggesting, cheerfully,
that we must now exercise our utmost
effort to command an end to the harming, make safe and secure the harmed, likewise
the most egregious offenders, justice is essential.
What is that all about?
End the behaviours that cause harm and move onto healthier social behavioural
processes, that nurture and thus bring about the natural dynamic, a state of peace?
The NHS Question: A few thoughts or 'just sayin' ... or it be, like, this.
Warning: polemic ahead.
Read on.
What do I sense of being human as biology, as the bacteria 'we' are, the wider life we are, the 'I am the living habitat' sense of 'we' and 'i' . What is human health? Who defines it?
Here is what pondering those questions that might implies to me.. or 'here's another one I made up...."
I knew this always, that science and common sense observation of the whole helps assert what is factual. I tell myself this often..
Because.
We are biology.
And there is the possibility of sustaining a biologically mandated healthy state, and there is an emergency stress response state, which is activated when the situation demands it.
Both these states of being can be described at the level of hormone cascades that happen across a range of the human body systems, and to use those to indicate what is happening,what outcomes are resultant: one can be healthy, and deal with a stressed state as an occasional event in a dynamic habitat, meeting the challenge of changes, threats, and situations which demand focus on dealing with the immediate present.
Right then what is needed and available, as a fully evolved capability, is a flood of short term hormone cascades the moved rapidly and efficiently across the body in thousandths of a second, all increasing capability in terms of hyper focus and mobile ability, initiating accurate action in response, without thinking, that rescues the situation. In natural biology shit happens. Leggit!
An optimally healthy human being's endocrine system can experience the occasional emergency and return to optimal healthy behaviour baselines.
However when there is a chronically stressed state one regular outcome is that the response ceases to be a response; this happens because the original response, and many subsequent response made no difference or made matters worse and a new behaviour had to be worked out, arrived at, to successfully avoid the stress or worse, resist the stressors, becomes a triggereable reaction. Its' the strategy of the powerless in a threatening situation - as a result learning ceases. Habit forms, dependency follows.
And it has direct impact of healthy functioning of all body systems.
Thus we can look at the stress induced on an organism in such manner that the organisms body systems adjust to a state of constant near to hyper-arousal required for that stress, (it will always be there) as their 'new' baseline, and only because the power status quo actively reinforces it's dominance with the threat of violence and is able to control enough of the material situation to be able to perpetuate the 'stress position'.
The stress is maintained.This appears to be common policy in power institutions world wide.
Science can be used to describe how the hormone cascades of healthy happy people behave.
It can also describe the effect of stress hormones on the body systems, in both immediate, medium and long term outcomes, many of which prefigure in a whole host of disease states and which are all outcomes of chronic stress..
Tell me that life under the current social-political power structure is not chronically stressful for a vast majority of people who live with that presence in their lives?
Tell me gain, what is the leading cause of disease?
Induced Chronic Stress. No-brainer!
This is what I sense of being human as biology, the bacteria we are, the wider life we are, the 'I am the living habitat' ... fully participant.
The NHS is dealing with this above all else.
How is that fair and just?
Fund it to the full!
Essential, mandatory: turn attention and focus to the way the abuses and misuse of Political Power is inducing stress on people and society, and tackle that one, without calling it a war, or a 'fight' for a 'cure' and seeking charitable donations.... too much is focused on putting a saddle on a bolted horse.
Savings and improvments on the NHS - 2015 onwards!
1. Prevention - active attention to induced chronic stress! identify all those socio-political dynamics and behaviours that induce stress and maintain it, carry out a diagnosis so to speak; and prescribe a recovery pathway, a prognosis.
1.1. Honesty and transparency are the basic prescriptions.1.2. Continue to look after all those who need it, and with dignity and respect, for all involved. No more political interference in caring for those who need it.
2. Yeah, and stop that profit gouging, sweet deal making, error prone, privatisation estate agency work!
ANY Family, Community or Society that does NOT care for the most vulnerable
within it's domain is dysfunctional. Those that engender shituations where more
people are made vulnerable through ideological, military and economic war are
pathological.
The concept that democratic electorates should be satisfied and happy to merely
vote and let others do the work of Governance and policy decision making is out
of touch, out of date and, to be frank it breeds subservience and
irresponsibility.
We all bleed red, we all cry tears of salty water, we all experience loving
kindness and we suffer abuse in pretty much the same way.
We are human, first and foremost.
One generation is all it would take.
If History was taught honestly, humanely, with the children encouraged to do their own
research and then share it and discuss it and write it up in in schools, the
BNP/EDL and ISIS/Wahabists could not exist.
Nor would the far right or the ideological left nor the various factions within which anger and rage is the dominant currency have such a support base. If critical thinking was encouraged rather than opposed in schools, the lies and propaganda of any political power base would be seen as the lies they are, and resisted.
Simples.
One generation is all it would take.
Healthy behaviour is always realistic, and abuse is always idealistic, in as
much as there is a biological mandate towards optimal human biological health and behaviour, and this
mandate is more real than any invented social system that attempts to impose it's concept
of what should be, through coercion and indoctrination, through punishment and reward - be it religious, ideological or any other form - or any other method to
undermine, disrupt and replace the biological mandate of optimal human biological health and behaviour.
There is a war being perpetrated by Power Establishments against any and all people who no longer
accept the 'right' of 'might' and it includes spreading discord between people,
between the genders, between the young and the elderly, between the different
faiths. Conspiracy theories, hatred of the Jews as 'controllers' of the banking system (a lie), hatred of Muslim people, hatred of LGBTi, escalating violence at home and abroad are all planks of this war.
There is no war against white people by brown people, nor is there a war
against black, brown or any other colour by white people. There is no 'clash of civilisations' as Tony Blair claims.
Study history, see the patterns, study predatory psychopathy, see the
patterns and study optimal human biological health and see the patterns. Break free of your own social conditioning. Liberate yourself from mental slavery!
Become
fully human, fully humane.
Check out the Power Inquiry folks, and examine the detail of what genuine
devolution of power means - it means taking up the shared responsibility of
decision making, policy formulation and oversight --
which means getting down into the evidence, the data and working with others to
suss out what is most beneficial to the community as a whole - business,
community and social welfare alike... it means challenging those in our communities who are ideologically bound, angry, abuse with the evidence, face to face, it means understanding what needs and insecurities lie behind those fears, and offering ways to meet those needs, allay those insecurities.
£10 million grifter, enabled Brexit.
Deterrent Claim Debunked. Socratic
Method. It works.
1. Who had the first Nuclear Bombs?
2. Who used them, twice, on massive civilian populations, when nobody else
had them?
3. Who were their declared 'enemies' after WWII? Were the detonations of the
two bombs over Hirioshima and Nagasaki
a 'demonstration' of who had the ultimate power, and the willingness to use it?
4. Did the declared enemies have any Nuclear Bombs?
5. Did they build their own bombs as a deterrent against the already
existing bombs because they were declared enemies of the State that had the
Bomb and they believed that the bombers would use them again, as the threat
implied?
6. The deterrent is to deter the original threatener.
The rest is lies and hyperbole.
That aside, the possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction is a question of insane power politics trumping common sense and humanity. On all sides.
Peace is more, much more than the absence of War!
Don't get me wrong,
All the States that operate Hierarchical systems of
organised politically motivated violence are the result of historical psychopathic behaviour, whose origins in violence are beyond doubt, which are re-created and managed by psychopaths,
sociopaths and their servants, run on a day to day basis by carefully
conditioned ‘citizens, all of this paid for by tax payers under coercion. David Cameron's evasive answer to an honest question is illustrative.
The recent reports on the dealings between Saudi Arabia and The UK Government regarding mutual support for each others election to the UN Human Rights Commission, and the case of Ali Mohammed al-Nim, who was arrested at age 14, for making a pro-democracy protest in Saudi Arabia, and who is now 17, in jail and has been sentenced to being beheaded and then crucified, and David Camerons evasive answering to the question put to him by Jon Snow, "Why did you make this horrid deal with Saudi Arabia?" is illustrative.
That Cameron blurted out an unsubstantiated claim that Saudi Intelligence about a 'bomb flying over the UK' and that Saudi intelligence helps UK Security is appalling, devious and obscene.
He must be put to the test, and he must present the evidence for his claim. Even if it turns out to be true, the fact remains - the deal made to infiltrate the Saudi Regime into the UN Human Rights Commission, given their record and intransigence on Human Rights is shameful and repugnant, and brings the British Government and all it's offices into disrepute. Is this really acceptable in the 21st Century?
Corbyn says, as did the Power Inquiry, and as many, many millions of people do, that the electorate and party
membership is ready to mature our political activism and engagement, that the grass roots wants to step up to the plate and get stuck in, examine the data, the evidence, craft policy, and maintain oversight of how policy is being implemented - rather
than leave it to a self selecting minority of whom we cannot be assured that they have all our best
interests at heart, be it the people, our children or our business activities.
One generation is all it would take, just a matter of 30 years.
Be part of that generation. I am part of that generation. We have nothing to lose and so much to gain by engaging with all our abilities, our heart and passion.
1. The Israeli Government has been at a state of war with Syria since the Golan Heights were taken by Israel, by Force, in the '6 day war' in 1967.
2. Syrian Government is recognised Internationally as a Sovereign State.
3. Saudi and US/UK inflitrated 'foreign fighters' into the pro-more-democracy movement protests (which were peaceful in intent and action). The violence started when they attacked Syrian Government police, then military. The groups attacking the Syrian Government are supported by Saudi, Qatar, Israel, UK, USA -- both covertly and overtly, Syrian was put into the 'axis of evil' by George Bush's US Government.
4. Once violence starts at that degree, the issues of democracy go out the window, The Syrian State fights to survive. It's fight is legtimate, given point 3.
5. ISIS started in Iraq, and was comprised of 'foreign fighters' and elements of the Death Squads set up by the US, through Colonel James Steele (ret) and Colonel James Coffman.
6. The pattern of Collusion or inflitrating violent militia was standard operational practice in Northern Ireland, and we know that they had agents active in stimulating violence in the IRA, the UVF and other militia. Same thing in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya.
7. The long term solution is for US/UK and Saudi to be stopped 'intervening' in the affairs of Arab States. The first step is to arrest Tony Blair and George Bush and all who operated with them to launch these wars against Arab States, apart from, of course, Saudi, Oman, Qatar, UAE.
At the same time, the US and UK and Sauds MUST BE STOPPED from interfering, overtly or covertly.
8. Without the honest facing of what has been done, as above, there will be no peace - 'no justice, no peace.'
9. It is pure hypocrisy of the European States to NOT take in the refugees they are part of creating. It is also cruelty, Institutionalised cruelty, and our taxes are funding it.
