Being who you are.

As we become buffeted by the headwinds of BREXIT's claim and counter claim, each utterance muddied beyond recognition by punditry, one is refreshed to see new faces emerge from the political undergrowth each with a new confidence. Confidence in humanities innate sense of 'common sense' when removed from the furnace of Whitehall debate and counter debate, the tired old clichés from the tired old faces are replaced with new collaborative ideas, where people have a place in the conversation, if not the ideology. 

This is what attracts the young people who are queuing to join the Labour Party and have their say. For too long the top down approach which is the default position for most people in this country has been challenged, the Suits are being challenged, the experts and the statistician are being challenged.  

I grew up in the era of Macmillan and Wilson, each supported by a plethora of establishment faces. The BBC mimicked the status quo with bland pronouncements, each spoken in what was called "BBC English", a cutting edge display of perfectly attuned correctness, spoken as if from a different world to the one most of the population lived in.

We live here, they lived there and because each cultural environment was self contained there was little need to stray into the others space. It wasn't a question of knowing your place, your place was where you wanted to be, with your own people,  where you were happiest and perfectly content. The local planks of self esteem were in place, justice was not complicated and seemed fair, the "local society" judged its people and wished for what "it" thought was reasonable in terms of "its" norms. 

This was a long time before the 'human rights act', or the adjustments now needed to allow other societies living in the country to have their own norms. 

It was before the advent of the mental tick. Now a days every child can be diagnosed with some mental condition some mental aberration that excuses their behaviour, the concept of "bad behaviour" is simply an anathema to the liberal establishment.

We live in an era of continual adjustment. The 'sureties' of yesterday are thrown out and replaced with something far less substantial. 

Feed a child with insecurity and you produce an insecure child. It's what follows the multitude of psychological assessments, bench marks on which to pin some sort of disorder, mothers queuing up to outbid each other as if the more quirks your child has the less they can be responsible for.

Feed this sense of offering a substitute to any course of self responsibility, give it a complicated name and the blame culture takes over and we see instability all around us.

Our lives have become too complex. We have taken on everyone else's condition through the power of communication. We involve hours of thought and reflection, often subliminal to the chaos we see in other parts of the world and no matter how remote we are asked to donate ! 

Simplicity is expensive, people spend fortunes to be locked up on health farms or detox clinics. We have lost the willingness to be our simple selves and rather chase after some tabloid norm illustrated by someone who will soon be marked down as a failure or more cruelly, dead.
Continually on the search for something else it takes a lifetime to find you always had it, in being who you are !!!