Trumpeting a different message

Is our comprehension of what is 'right and wrong' simply a prolonged intrusion into our collective mind using programs to re-educate us and pacify what we would have said were our deepest fears. 

Our deepest  fear is the fear of something we can not recognise. 

It was the bogey-man in our childhood, the unrecognisable shape, the thing under the bed waiting to pounce.

In those days the fear was fantasised it was a sublimely felt fear of something foreign to our common experience.

This description of a foreign experience is all around us today.  The fantasy is real and this reality has been the work of those who sought to remould public opinion toward what ever was foreign.

By foreign I don't just mean the people from foreign lands or their foreign ways and customs, (to say nothing of their food) but it's the foreignness of our belief system and again I am not talking of a religious based belief system but the beliefs which were  grounded in our psych as we grew up, the things you took for granted were your culture.

In virtually every area of this childish surety we have been re-educated, told that our values were wrong and pressurised to change them.

 This world in which we now make our way is full of things of which we have, at its mildest, reservations , at its extreme, revulsion and yet these  dry natural  impulses to quantify and evaluate the current situation are demonised by the liberal movers and shakers, pigeon holed with derogatory terms, racist, or misogynist. Terms used to close down any further conversation or debate, the decisions have been made and you query them at your peril.

Of course this largely only effects the older person, those who held opinions before opinions were held for you !!

One of the saddest sights is seeing how the young are so pliant these days, easily manipulated by media propaganda. If they have interests and a willingness to visit the barricades it's on things of self interest such as University fees or the hopeless situation of a housing market which has been manipulated by middle class interests. Perhaps the global economy and the power of the banks can get the juices flowing but arguments regarding the social makeup of society, or the pressures of contrasting cultures within a not so homogeneous society, is to process ideas that have been formalised and made instinctive in only a matter of a decade or two. The totalitarianism which has subsumed the youth in general is the work of a section of society who for one reason or another had to deal with a multi cultural, multi ethnic society which the political masters in this country had foisted on us to provide the low wage economy needed for high returns and a quick monetisation of their investment.

I was drawn to my diatribe this morning having started a book on Donald Trump written by one of his wildest advocates Ann Coulter. She speaks of the rage and the sense of impotence many Americans feel towards the establishment. She feels the insensitivity of  the establishment towards the Trump barrage against Liberal America is just what fuels the great rump of American people's contempt. From Illinois to Montana the people are fed up with the Washington consensus, fed up with the "pork", fed up with the wise words and yearn for an expletive or two. Their world is made up of expletives especially when another bill comes through the door and they haven't the money to pay. Their world is simple it stretches back to when America believed in it manufacturing as a "productive" thing signifying its masculinity not the slithery trade in derivatives, or outsourcing to some far off land they had no idea existed until their factory closed down and the widgets were now made in  Fengshui.

Trump speaks a rough language, he is for them visceral, he is unpolished by years of diplomacy, that Machiavellian skill of deviousness and cunning, of being and saying the opposite of what you are. The Congress and the Senate, the White House, the whole plethora of coat tail activists is as far from their day to day needs as were the workers in Fengshui.

Trump has stirred them up, the hornets are terrifying the Liberals, perhaps their carefully contrived edifice is about to collapse.