Our sense of morality

 

Subject: Our sense of morality



Most people's lives are governed by multiple experiences and partially related objectives. We run between the highs and lows of emotional and physical stress as we veer between our dreams and actual reality
Sometimes these experiences, place a great weight on individuals, expectations are temporally blown apart by misunderstanding as the bias which we hold in our hearts and minds rises to the surface. More and more we are corralled into group think, part of the need to collectivise our thoughts in an attempt to have people assume their thoughts are part of a general consensus which easies any unpleasantness in holding isolatory views when for decades we have been encouraged to think only of the need for human collaboration.
Collaboration has to be based on some sort of conformity, once we were told that the very fact we bleed when injured, feel pain when hurt, distress when things go wrong was enough to register our commonality but this symbolism of  belonging to one family, the human family, is put into question when we explore differences in culture. Culture that underlaying cooperative sense of belonging.
Does culture divide us more than race and skin colour. Is the elemental system of beliefs and our understanding of those beliefs,  not only religious beliefs but our sense of fair-play and of justice which provide a bed rock vis a vis our reaction to the events taking place around us. This subculture of thought and understanding provides the flexibility to respond to unpleasant reality as well as our confirmation when things go well. Culture is the shorthand by which we react in a different way and how we define ourselves as different or apart if we sanction our reaction by suggesting ‘we are right and they are wrong’ when in fact we are simply reacting, like Pavlov’s dog to stimuli.

 

Suella Braveman the Home Secretary gave a speech yesterday in America setting out her view on immigration and and her definition of Illegal immigration in the context of asylum seekers to this country. Her speech was provocative in so far as she questioned the basis of asylum in the context of the numbers now potentially seeking to come to the UK given the ease of travel and the tools now  available to navigate a way here.
I was part of that first wave of mass emigration when the common man and woman was invited to move to another country. I never availed myself of the £10 passage with work and accommodation promised and it was a million miles from what is on offer now. The participants both those welcoming the immigrant and the immigrant themselves had been well prepared for the move and it was not fostered on a community who would have to bare the brunt of the inflation in school places, health care and jobs. It had previously been the privilege of the rich to travel in the world, a world  which had become dotted with exclusive hotels in cities who could command their interest but for  people from the working-class much less able to afford it, it was a  rare experience.
Today all our cities are now made unrecognisable by the influx of foreign people who do not seek to change their habits or way of life and become absorbed in the new society but rather who demand to be recognised for what they are, a fully fledged an import. They insist to be embedded with full rights as if this little piece of Britain were theirs, an outpost of Bangladesh, Damascus or Tehran. Yes it’s a variation of Colonialism reversed an imposition not fully countenance by the local.but sold as a lie, as reparation to cleanse our sense of a debt needed to be repaid.
I thought her blunt exposition of the threats needed to be spelt out since we have become a soft touch to all the worlds ailments. This mornings press has sort to ignore her message seeking instead to appear to condemn her warnings as blatant hypocrisy
and out of character with our national temperament. I wonder if the journalists aren’t themselves peddling their own type of hypocritical nonsense refusing to believe the conundrums facing those on the streets of Bradford and Burnley and pandering to an old fashioned sense of morality for which we can ill afford these days.