We’re publishing today a piece by Dr. John Marenbon, who is a Fellow of the British Academy, Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy. It is a critique of the ‘New Normal’ that Dr. Marenbon argues has emerged in the past two years as “a set of views about discrimination, prejudice, culture and guilt” under which “white, heterosexual men began to be obliged to feel guilty for being themselves”. These views moved from “being the preserve of some in the media, politics and the universities to becoming, at least nominally, the accepted way of thought in public life in Britain and the West more generally”.
He distinguishes two intertwined strands of the ‘New Normal’: the social and the historical/cultural, both of which he says are pernicious and based on falsehoods. Here’s an excerpt:
The cultural strand was thrown into prominence in June 2020 when Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol removed from its plinth a 19th-century statue of the local philanthropist, Edward Colston, who made his fortune in the slave trade at the end of the 17th century. They then defaced it, rolled it through town and threw it into the sea. Although some politicians and commentators condemned the criminal violence of this action (others condoned it), there was hardly a voice among them in favour of retaining the statue, despite its status as a memorial to the historical culture (17th and 19th century) of Bristol. Indeed, in the wake of the Colston episode, statues countrywide became objects of suspicion, as the authorities quietly removed to the obscurity of museum storerooms those whose subjects did not meet today’s norms of behaviour. Slave-trading has come to be regarded as a communicable disease, infectious not just for hours and days but for centuries, if even the slightest traces of it remain on artefacts from the past. Thus the silver on Cambridge college High Tables has been summoned before commissions of enquiry, and items donated by students with families involved in the slave trade judged unfit for use. Even Scotland’s second greatest philosopher, David Hume, has not escaped: Edinburgh University’s ‘David Hume Tower’ has now been more prosaically renamed ‘40 George Square’ following the philosopher’s defenestration, on the grounds that he used racist language, by the appropriate cadres (the university’s Equality and Diversity Committee and its Race Equality and Anti-Racist Sub-Committee).
Just as the social strand threw into prominence an organisation, Black Lives Matter, which antedated the events following George Floyd’s murder, so the cultural strand has given wide currency to a slogan, already popular among radical groups: ‘Decolonise the curriculum!’ Previously uttered as a complaint by student activists, this injunction has now set the wheels of university (and school) authorities in motion, and although they may be unsure about what it means, few in the arts and humanities question that it is a valuable aim, to be pursued without delay or reflection.
But is the New Normal really new? The discussion about discrimination, both sexual and racial, was already widespread in the 1970s, and since then thousands of pages have been written by legal theorists especially, but also by philosophers, on affirmative action. The beginnings of its cultural strand can also be seen half a century ago in the opposition to the Western Civilisation courses, which had been widespread in U.S. universities, and more widely in calls for curriculum reform over the last two decades.
As a collection of arguments, the content of the New Normal is indeed far from novel. What is new is that the views are no longer presented as arguments, to be accepted because they are rationally convincing or countered with other arguments and new evidence. They have become an orthodoxy, and are on their way to becoming an unchallengeable one.
Public dissent from this New Normal is rare. A few brave politicians have refused to take a knee. Others, and no doubt a majority of the public, including many of those who have publicly professed faith in the new gospel, are waiting quietly for it all to pass. The danger is that they are waiting in vain. A new dogma, which is accepted for political reasons and to avoid contention, though mouthed at first without conviction, rapidly acquires the familiarity of habit and in the end is accepted as unquestionable truth.
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Peter Ackroyd’s book ‘Albion’ is well worth reading. Understanding the true nature of English aesthetics. Or even The White Goddess by Robert Graves who demonstrates that the deep grammatical structures in English are underwritten by a battle between different types of tree. Sounds crazy I know but there hasn’t been a single attempt in the academy to undermine Graves in sixty years, his erudition being more than they can bear. And of course the lost ballad of Weyland Smith.
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I don’t feel guilty, they can sod off.
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Me neither- quite proud of who I am and what I’ve achieved actually. I’d be interested to know who downvoted you for saying you don’t feel guilty, and why.
Maybe Rhodes can fall…Just been watching some of the Court to Public Opinion videos, Alex from UKC mentioned how Cecil Rhodes was one of the early globalists, interesting stuff. but I do have some principles, they should give the city where it resides a vote on it, that would be democratic.
There is a world of difference between a British imperialist and todays globalists who hate anything and everything British.
It is obvious that this country is under attack, as is Western society in general. And one of the first things an aggressor does is undermine your culture and heritage. It used to be that countries attacked one another and then swamped the vanquished culture with their own. This time it is different. This time it is not a country attacking, it is an ideology, a Globalist ideology, rooted in the horrendous Communist and Fascist ideas of the 20th century. The flag of the aggressor does not have a swastika or a hammer and sickle. It is rainbow coloured and it is everywhere now.
Canadians are showing the way, and may God help them.
I hate that queer flag.
The Globalists have commandeered it and are using it for their own ends. They own the flag now.
Cash-starved National Health Service? Plenty of money for some things.
How do those people sleep at night….
Unlikely they lay straight…
“Stop complaining about hospital ‘service’. NHS Nurses aren’t waitresses”
“Up to two in three patients are unhappy with the care they are given on the NHS, an alarming report has found.
Many of those treated by the Health Service complain that they were dehumanised, humiliated and embarrassed by the doctors and nurses who were supposed to be looking after them.
The survey of almost 12,000 patients found that staff were criticised for being rude, arrogant and lazy – too often refusing to treat their patients with dignity or compassion.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1359679/NHS-staff-rude-arrogant-lazy-Patients-verdict-2-3-tell-poor-care.html
Sign in an undertaker’s window?
It wasn’t until I had surgery in a private hospital that I realised how basic, soviet-like and socialist the NHS hospital was with its often cold, uninterested staff (though not all, by any means). By contrast the private hospital was warm and welcoming, with smiling, helpful staff. Even the building itself felt less basically clinical and intimidating inside. And the meals – what you might expect from a four* hotel, unlike the often unidentifiable gunk from NHS kitchens (or food factories which supply an entire county).
The standard of private care is something the NHS should be aspiring to, because much of this comes from attitude. Unfortunately, like most things socialist run with vast amounts of cash wasted on excessive bureaocracy and non-health projects, nobody seems to have to account for the huge costs. It’s time we remembered that the NHS is NOT free – it’s actually paid for by the taxes taken from the British people.
Sick-bag (XXL) please!!!
They make me feel sick. Disgusting organisation and culture. That really does tell the story of what this shitty country has become and those assholes are leading the charge into the fiery pit of hell. Tossers
I saw a fully paid up Brit Moron only yesterday with a rainbow mask on.
Agreed. We have to remember though that our anger needs to be targeted at the architects and implementers of this madness, not on the minorities. The creatures pushing this madness do not represent the bulk of minority groups. For example, find someone who has had a sex change who wants to use a personal pronoun. It is literally a solution to a non existing problem, that just rubs people up the wrong way. They are just making shit up to cause hatred between different groups.
Absolutely.
This ahistorical loopiness is not only training people to think irrationally. It’s an enormous distraction, taking our eyes away from what really matters to our lives. Who has political and economic power right now, and how do they use it?
Let’s talk about those producing things they call “vaccines”, from which they make enormous profits. Let’s talk about the governments allowing these chemical cocktails to be injected into people against their will. White heterosexual males aren’t protected from this. They’re just as abused as everyone else.
Let’s talk about the outrageous actions against the Canadian truckers, who include women and people of all sorts of ethnicities and religious backgrounds. But it would not matter if they were all white men – an injustice is an injustice whether it’s directed against an individual or any sort of group. They are absurdly stigmatised as “far right” (a term designed to evoke images of Nazis and the KKK). Look away from them, we’re told (in fact, we have to search the internet to find them as they actually are, rather than the caricatures).
Let’s talk about who has power and who does not after two years in which we have learnt that we may only leave our homes if our governments say so, and even then we may be forced to gag ourselves when in public. We are being told to blame all this on the colour of someone’s skin, or their gender, or their sexuality?
I am with those who care about injustice and tyranny right now. At the moment, our eyes are turned to Canada. We are not looking for “villains” of past centuries, books to ban, or statues to topple. We have a contemporary tyranny to deal with.
These gits have appropriated something which was cool – and they have defiled it. They have basically raped it. Unfortunately, anything rainbow now is an instant turn-off for me.
I’ve got nothing against gays apart from the fact that too many of them keep trying to push their agenda down your throat.
“Suits you, Sir!”
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I ignore it because it’s nonsense, usually spouted by an idiot looking for attention, it’s pointless to argue with an idiot, they try to drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
And who’s idea was the annoying CAPTCHA to log in? is it there normally? I think I messed up uBlock Origin trying to beat twitters new “you must log in” doofah
The captcha not only appear on every login, but also prevents me from posting comments after a few minutes of inactivity. Wow, what a great “improvement”.
It’s a fad, an artefact. In the sixties and seventies, genuine battles were fought – against laws, not statues. This is tiresome virtue signalling.
The movement for freedom against tyranny is where the energy is now.
Jung was aware od the dire situation of the western soul and he said that perhaps two things could sustain it into the future: two myths which hadn’t yet lost their power – the finding of the male in the female and the female in the mail and the grail myth. My deepest impression of this country is that there is still enough spirituality left to provide a thread of possiblity of survival. TS Eliot predicted in the 1950s that western civilisation would once again retreat back into the monasteries in the not too distant future. Given the nature of the warfare arrayed against us I think it will be like this. Frankly the enemy is pathetic. We the English should’ve kicked it out long ago.
What we are witnessing has nothing to do with condemning slavery or ‘decolonising’ the curricullum. These are just the means to an end. That end being the eradication of White British people and the absorbtion of their former nation into a global super-state inhabited by a mixed race people who have no knowledge of, or allegiance to, the former nations and peoples of these islands.
To achieve their one world government, globalists must break down the social ties that keep Western nation states together. Among other things, national borders and institutions, Christianity, ethnic homogeny, the traditional family unit and the patriarchy must first be undermined, and then swept aside. These aims are shared by Marx’s Communist Manifesto.
Empowering minorities and facilitating mass inward migration are key weapons of the globalist. Empowering minorities dispossesses the majority and bringing in large numbers of people with global family connections, split national loyalties and competing racial, ethnic, social and religious outlooks fractures a formerly cohesive society.
Since 1945, when Europeans effectively lost the war against the globalists, mass immigration coupled with ‘political correctness’ have been their principal weapons of choice. European societies subjected to these ideological measures are effectively split into two opposing groups of people: oppressors and oppressed.
Influenced by the cultural Marxism of Gramsci and the Frankfurt School, those pushing this cultural poison deem the white heterosexual male of Christian heritage to be the oppressor, and females, immigrants, Muslims, homosexuals and other minorities to be the oppressed.
This is the realm of ‘identity politics’, and in the globalists world view, ‘social justice’ means strengthening the oppressed and weakening the oppressor. This is why our national narratives, symbols, history and culture are coming under increased attack.
The globalists pro-minority, pro-migrant, neo-Marxist worldview has now mutated from determined attempts to marginalise and disenfranchise the White British people into entirely dispossessing and then finally, in the long run, totally eradicating them.
Sadly seems pretty true
Great piece.
This has been going on for much longer in Germany (for hopefully obvious reasons), hence, the pattern is anything but new. It’s actually seriously old: The original sin which condemns people to a guilty life they must seek ritual atonement for is an originally Catholic and generally Christian concept. When trying to sell BS to people with a Christian background, reusing the imagery etc they’re accustomed to makes obvious sense.
Which also puts this ideology in its proper place: It’s essentially PR supposed to serve those who employ it. Eg, who’d need diversity counselors if racism was not a problem (and preferably, an insoluble one for eternal job security)?
Yes, the joke is on the Christian conservatives – their religion has successfully deployed the methods for centuries, and now they are protesting? That’s what is called getting a taste of your own medicine, I’d say.
As usual, the line is to draw between liberal (or shall we say, “libertarian”) and authoritarian thinking. The latter is happy to employ techniques such as manipulative guilt induction to make individuals comply with a collectivist definition of morals, the former says every individual has their own conscience to guide their way through life.
I have friends who are Serbian nationalists and they love talking about their poets and their past. I don’t understand why and true form of English nationalism can’t be the same. But we do keep things to ourselves. History, English, and especially occultism and law. Bear in mind that this period from 2020-2040 was the time that the mystery schools hoped that their teachings would spread far and wide and it is happening.
We need to get standards high again. I mean so high that the rest of the world is on a lower level. And I really think that this is possible given the pent up energies of this country. On every level we have the breadth because we have the climate – it makes for great soldiers and great thinkers.
Junk food, poisoned water, brainwashed teachers, brain-dead parents, corrupt politicos, bought media… something is causing the ongoing, mental-disease pandemic.
Or perhaps it’s something else….
These are spoilt/pandered creatures. They are infantile, spiteful vandals. Wailing, banshee-dervishes of destruction. They hate themselves and everything around them. Corrosive.
Even Scotland’s second greatest philosopher, David Hume
Just an aside, but which Scottish philosopher is greater than Hume? Adam Smith I guess – but he did not become famous for his philosophy.
I’m a white male. I don’t feel guilty about being white or what my predecessors may have done. Why would anyone feel guilty about simple facts over which they don’t have any influence.
Because of virtue signalling – assert your guilt – and submission to the state religion – and perversely more appreciation and benefits will come to you from other twisted people in the upper ranks. The same reason why all aspiring nobles were supposed to be Good Christians not so long ago.
Furthermore, a public declaration of guilt creates an opportunity for future blackmail, should you ever consider to become disobedient to the higher ups. The same way how a low-rank gangster must commit some public crime before allowed to join the mafia structure – so that they can be ratted out to the police should they fall in disfavor of the Godfather. The ability to designate Good and Bad men in public view is a very high power indeed.
Your analysis is so mixed up. Who gets blackmailed about what they have admitted to publicly? Blackmail can only happen when the target wants to keep something quiet.
Oh, the initial admission of guilt provides only a temporary absolution – while at the same time opening an angle of assault for the controlling blackmailer. Because the fact that you admitted guilt once makes it more believable when the puppet master decides to demonstrate how much more guilty you in fact are compared to what you admitted. That is where blackmail comes into play – vague doubt about your character is already established, and the blackmailer only needs to delve further to reinforce it – starting from your own prior admissions no less.
It works just like the good old witch trial. As soon as the witch admits some slight accusations, other, much graver accusations will also come to light. Unless, of course, the witch has her back covered by the Grand Inquisitor himself.
Why should anyone proclaim ‘gay pride’ while simultaneously asserting that deviant sexuality is something natural that you can’t help?
Especially when we have done more to fight and end slavery than anyone!
There is no room for surrender monkey talk. Our whole identity and the very impulse is predicated on the opposite. Yes we have to admit to ourselves that we are in dire trouble. But we can still appreciate that there is much that is beautiful about our culture.
At the next eco-fanatic attempt to glue themselves to, and block, our roads we should call in the Canadian truckers (if we can’t recruit any of our own) to run them over.
Make no mistake, this is war.
Canadian truckers are all white-supremacist, occupying, domestic terrorists, whose funds should be stolen and their bank accounts frozen.
M25 eco-heroes bringing a motorway to a standstill (again) are offered cups of tea by ‘law-enforcement’ and asked if they could be made more comfortable.
Vandalise monuments/statues, property, and the police let you get on with it (it’s for a good cause you know). Sit on a park bench, drink some tea, go for a walk in a national park … that is a step too far, and the
boysbullies in blue will arrive in swarms to set things right.Funny old world.
Too many in Britain fall into the trap of espousing the same kind of zero-sum identarian thinking that they claim to oppose, instead of realising that race is incidental not essential to who we are.
“race is incidental not essential to who we are.”
Utter nonsense.
Best response of the evening; have a star.
Denying the importance of our ancestry is denying ourselves.
How many of your 8 greatgreatgrandmothers do you think were telling the truth about who knocked them up?
I’m not a hippieboomer and thus, don’t suffer from a obssessive epistomology :-). In absence of proof to the contrary, we can but assume that historical sources are accurate and speculating about what could have happened instead is a pointless pastime.
Apart from that, why would that matter?
Do you know who your father is?
[For the censors.]
I like to agree with this image. I was about to reply to Mr(?) Star’s comment about how slave traders can be called philantrophists when it suddeny vanished. I’m thus going to put it again here:
Nowadays, we believe that it’s morally wrong that people can be property of other people but this notion (in the sense of it being universally accepted) is not yet 200 years old. Slavery was a perfectly normal and perfectly moral part of human society since ancient times until it got abolished in the nineteenth century, eg, the old testament also contains rules on the proper treatment of slaves.
Colston wasn’t some kind of 1D stereotype invented to use as example by 21st century political agitators but a human being living in the time he did live in. Which means he was professionally involved in the slave trade. And privately, a philantrophist because he spent some of his money on so-called good causes. There’s no contradiction here because this isn’t happening today and hence, can’t sensibly be judged by today’s standards.
Good post. Slavery was a way of life for centuries (and still is in Africa and the middle east) and everyone lived with it. I posted this somewhere around here earlier.
Hear, hear.
Relativism works both ways if it works at all. How many of the moralists of the past would be sickened and appalled by today’s notions of morality? All of them, for sure.
I’m certainly not denying your ancestry, or anyone’s. Culture matters very much, but I suppose we would disagree on how intrinsically that is tied to race or some idea of genetic purity or whatever your into.
Judge a man not by the colour of his skin, but by the content of his character.
The culture of the family my brother married into is very much different from that of mine, ie, the one he came from. The culture of his family (unknown to me) presumably has elements from both and features which are original to it. There’s no way any of this can ever be replicated by an outsider. This extends upwards and outwards to clan, tribe and the set of tribes forming a Volk (for want of an English translation of that). Due to Anglo-Saxon toy state building and Russian mass deportations, I don’t have a clear, tribal heritage myself but still, I have more in common with a Bavarian than I will ever have with a Somalian.
I have no idea how judging the merits of individuals (something more fitting to gods than to men) according to some abstract criterions would or should fit in here, especially not, if that’s as idiotically coarse-grained as the American idea that there only white and black (or non-white) people. Outside of the US of A, a lot of peoples exist who aren’t easily distinguished by a binary characterisation of skin colour. He who doesn’t want to be bothered with details like that should restrict his musings to the cultural circle they’re applicable to.
It’s a lot more complicated than that.
Isn’t everything?
TS Eliot said that the thing that boys lack these days is a truly difficult task. It is no coincidence that the lack of moral guidances decline just grew when the Davos crowd got organised. We have lost the joy of life. The fleeting and effervescent the beauty in the moment. We cannot allow this to disappear. We will not lose because we can not lose.
‘Diversity’ is a missed opportunity. In modern Britain, there are the 9 ‘protected characteristics’ one may not be discriminated over (2010 Equalities Act). Unfortunately, as they are enforced, they safeguard and exaggerate the views/claims of some people, and trample and denigrate the rights of others. Where is the freedom of expression, debate, and mutual respect, if that is how ‘diversity’ operates?
People today FEAR to discuss these issues. Free speech is dying, and with it – the mutual respect that comes from openness to the other person even if we fundamentally disagree with their opinions.
We live in a cowardly age in ‘the West’, where minorities blame majorities, and vice-versa, and nobody soul searches and really tries to look at things from their ‘opponent’s’ point of view: in an objective, phenomenological, empathetic spirit. Only people with the courage to engage with other cultures can transcend the fear of being labelled racists, or feeling ‘marginalised’.
it’s very good to get rid of trash statues of slave traders. good riddance to bad rubbish.
Better pull down those rubbish, black statues too… oh, wait; there aren’t any… and there should be.
“Is the Jen Reid statue still there?
The statue was removed by Bristol City Council the day after it was installed.”
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
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I do not like slavery. However, I think your perspective is too narrow.
When is Sasha Johnson’s statue going to be toppled? She called a black man a ‘coon’.
“Sasha says that black lives matter whilst simultaneously treating black people with contempt,disrespect and disdain”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilZJB5vsmq4
Let’s imagine there’s a sport where the 2 finalists in the world championships are a UK citizen of Somali ethnicity and an Australian citizen of British ancestry.
Who should I support?
What do I have in common with the first? A shared political identity as UK citizens.
But political identity is arbitrary: citizenship can be changed by the signature of a bureaucrat; a state can be ended by the signature of a Prime Minister.
What do I have in common with the second? Shared ancestry (he could well be a cousin), shared broad culture, shared religion-we-follow-weakly.Fundamentally, membership of the same civilisation. Pretty much everything that matters.
Well said.
So you have the right to make your distinction between them (lit. ‘discriminate’ in the original sense) and choose the latter.
As a Polish and British citizen, I’d possibly choose the Somalian.
Which reveals you as my enemy.
If you say so; the Somalian it is, then.
Off topic… sort of. Bwahahahahahahahaha!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/prince-andrew-settles-pedo-trial-pays-accuser-undisclosed-sum
The generosity of innocence…
That’s very good.
I am me. End of.
The problem with Britain is that it has been turned into a corporatised no soul craphole. Corporate culture (satanic antichrist culture which rejects anything soulful or transforms the soulful into corporate crap and only cares about money and profit) has permeated everything. Theyre (most Brits) either corporate trained turned corporate souled or braindead from the media they consume which has brainwashed them into being total morons. The education system is now churning out braindead nonthinking idiots on a scale which is breathtaking. People who used to be pretty cool have been transformed into dribbling idiots. Ive watched it happen in real time to so many people – people who have lived in a WAY better UK but who are now very content to settle for this crap. Then theyre being brainwashed by the scum in GOVUK with the relentless terrorism they put out while providing nothing of value to the people – look at the cancer causing LED lights they have rolled out nationwide – says it all. The culture here just sucks. Its boring, predictable and dead. The satanic freemasonic police have played a massive role in destroying this country – fermenting snitching culture and of course nothing but fear fear fear in the local rags from the boys in blue – brainwashing people into believing theyre living in 70s New York rather than the boring soulless low crime craptown they actually live in. The police and ever booming security and surveillance industry make me hate this country with a passion, they do very little of true value they just harrass people they dont like the look of and theres a never ending flow of snitchers informing them of anything they see which they deem “suspicious”.
Most of what Brits know is just bullshit which has been sewn into their minds by the lowlifes running the media. I just walked in to a pub and theres 10 guys in their sixties and 70s talking about football. YAWN. Dont mention anything important or interesting, you loon. This is what it has come to. God in Britain first and foremost is the television. It rules the minds of the masses. That might not be so bad if the television actually produced things that are interesting and inspiring, but since the post 911 Soviet inspired communist grey revolution in the UKSSR, where basically all the arty stuff that used to make the UK a very special place was blatantly and deliberately deleted out of existence and replaced with an endless feed of moronball and sport sport sport and all the nauseating weasel celebs on crapo like Strictly and Britains Got Boring and moronic corporatised turds ruling the airwaves and scumbag bankers like RIchard Sharp controlling the BBC – all BBC and mainstream presenters can be accurately described as corporatised moronic turds. Then theres all the state-terrorism (now a normal part of life). Then theres the nefarious and ugly military surveillance technology and microwave WEAPONISED data network equipment which furnishes every town village and city and road. Then theres the absolutely disgusting Behavioural Insights Team lilterally mind controlling everyone to be a dribbling moron. Then theres the despicable treasonous legacy media. Then theres the braindead corporatised Common Purpose councillors and all the Covid fanatics and the NHS which is literally murdering people and making people ill and paralysed and giving them heart attacks and blood clots and severely impaired immune systems and calling it healthcare while everyone bangs pots and pans clapping for more more more. Then of course theres the sickening epidemic of virtue signalling. Hospitals full of weaponised wireless crap designed in Israel and Burger Kings and mobile phone masts on the roof. I could go on and on. The UK sucks and theres no end in sight. And now there is no escape, unless you want to have carcinogen and who knows what tipped swabs shoved up your nose scraping your blood brain barrier or if you want to be injected with a genetic graphene bioweapon. Not that anywhere else is much better any more. The human race has taken a MASSIVE nosedive since 911 thanks to the criminal terrorist filth that has taken over our governments and world. But the morons love it, and therein lies the problem. Doesnt matter how bad it gets, they really do genuinely like this kind of world. Its very upsetting, knowing how amazing life can and could be, with just a little imagination and creativity, but instead I have to live and spend this precious existence living in this satanic grey corporate world.
I tend to ignore all this and just get on living the life I choose- I have to if I want to remain sane, and a sense of humour is crucial. I also like Burger King.
These things are all low level arguments pretending to be important. Sure it’s romantic to think we’re connected with common ancestors but Our History is not only ridiculous, but it’s probably recalled falsely and shouldn’t really be paid attention to by anyone even remotely skeptical.
As for the woke rubbish, I’ve had this discussion over and over again with friends. They say that society with a “more diverse crowd is better” than not and actually I agree with them, but not in the way they think.
I couldn’t really give a Flying V what shade-of-shit someone is, nor who they have sex with. I only care about merit. I’m fine with different angles of thought from cultural backgrounds, but they need to have gotten to said thinking angles through skill and or talent.
I don’t understand how it’s not that simple. We’d all rather someone be competent than not, when dealing with them on a professional level. And humanity needs more strength and genius regardless of creed, aimed at the same goal. Therein lies the problem to my mind. No goal or aim.
I can’t swear much more, because for some reason I’ll be censored for pressing a pattern of keys, but all this really is absolute horseshit, and we need to get past it. We are currently in a quagmire of trendy politics that mean nothing in the greater scheme of things.
Not everyone will be aware that since 2019 the Master of Trinity College Cambridge referred to in the full article is Dame Sally Davies, the summit of whose professional career was becoming Chief Medical Officer for England (the post currently held by Sir Chris Whitty).
The other Masters appointed since 1945 were:
Sir Gregory Winter (Nobel Prize)
(Lord) Martin Rees (The Astronomer Royal)
Amartya Sen (Nobel Prize)
Sir Michael Atiyah (Fields Medal, Abel Prize)
Sir Andrew Huxley (Nobel Prize)
Sir Alan Hodgkin (Nobel Prize)
(Lord) R A Butler (Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer)
(Lord) Edgar Adrian (Nobel Prize)
One imagines that her own Nobel Prize must have been expected soon.
Without our history, accurate of course as far as possible, we are nothing. We need to learn from the bad and the good, not some dreamed up version created by the “woke” idiots.
This will carry on growing arms and legs until enough white males stop turning a cheek and start facing it head on.
I have already begun pulling Sky and BBC up on the number of black presenters they have, and challenging their diversity responses with counter-claims of positive discrimination.
In day to day life, I do what I can to avoid any of my money going to somebody from another ethnicity or culture such as avoiding sales people who might get commission etc
The virtue-signalling going on is tedious and odious. There is no problem with racism or homophobia in the UK, but they are truly intent on making problems by pushing people who have never had any prejudice farther right on the spectrum.
Politics and media has shoved me from right-centre to hard right, and no I am not “ashamed” of that, I am proud to fight for what is right in this country.