“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable”
George Orwell
George Orwell, author of Animal Farm, described a political landscape that I am starting to see developing all around me. I see laws and rules being created only then to see them not being followed or totally ignored by those people who created them in the first place. The obvious was the fiasco of Dominic Cummings and the Barnard Castle affair and the Part Gate nonsense.
‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’
In the Orwell story the pigs are the political leaders of the farm community, a bit unfair to pigs but I get her point. The leaders start off by staying that all the animals on the farm are equal. Over time, as the leaders fail to uphold the very rules that they had created they decided to change it slightly. So now, ‘some’, being them, were more equal than others.
Today I have been listening to a business person who is incandescent with rage with our leaders. This is because the restriction rules, that have not ever applied to any of them, are now to be further extended. This is now seen as their intention all along and that they are all a ‘bunch of lying bleep bleeps’. This person who I have previously seen as a mild mannered person is now on the edge of direct action and sounding almost mutinous. Then they quoted Harv Eker at me. Harv Eker is the author of the millionaire mind which is both a course and a book enabling people to reach their desired potential.
‘No one ever changed the world by watching X Factor’
Harv Eker, famously said this quote. In reality I suspect that no one ever did anything while watching X Factor. Marx once said that religion was the opiate of the people, the thing that kept them quiet and in their place. I suspect that religion has now been overtaken by the various forms of media that fill our lives and often have the effect of stopping us doing things and being creative.
How many hours do we spend each week doing nothing other that being intoxicated by the media on our phones, tablets and televisions? Often we watch other people, that the media present to us as icons of success, many of us watch and wish that we were famous or as rich as them. Yet when we are watching them on the media we are not doing the things that would give us the very things that we desire. If religion once served to keep us, the people, quiet acquiescent and in order then has television and the media now have taken the place of religion as the social drug that numbs the senses of the public so that most of us do very little and just accept our lot?
The business person that I was talking to was saying that most people have become an apathetic bunch of yes people who now just do what we are told and never question anything. Least of all the team of politicians left or right. Are we just changing one version of apathy for another?
In a very real way the world is changing. The climate is changing. Economically and politically things are changing. With another new variant of Covid things continue to changing.
The only constant thing in life is change
Heraclitus
The universe that we inhabit is subject to constant the change. We can call it evolution or decay but nothing ever stays the same. However, most change is gradual. Occasionally change is sudden abrupt and intense.
The person who has been sharing their frustrations with me is talking about a need to actively do something about the situation. This quite shocked me because they would be seen as a pillar of the community and a part of the constant unchanging landscape of life supporting the status quo come what may. If they are getting in the mood for rebellion, then, I see society in trouble and at a much deeper level that people can imagine. Then he begins to talk about Nigel Farage as a potential saviour and I see the free world slipping further to the right and a potentially fascist mindset.
We seem to be at a point where there is big change coming. The problem is that it only works when change happens creatively and productively and we move forward together. When change happens without a coherent plan and is imposed on us it can be destructive, devastating and difficult.
Maybe it is not quite the time to man (person) the barricades but it might not be that far off. As I keep saying…
If we all look after each other we will all be okay
If we don’t we maybe in a third world war. Whatever happens the issue will always be the same. We all need to survive this thing called ‘life’. Success at any level of life takes commitment and time and consistent and persistent action. If we can fine the time to be persistently and consistently kind and we might just make it. Fingers crossed.
Take care
Sean x
