And Did Those Feet . . .
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I tend to be apolitical in most things, and generally, as long as beer isn’t too expensive, and I’m earning more than 10 gallons of ‘gas’ (for you colonials) per hour, I am a patient man. Slow to anger, as they say. A placid, almost bovine, Englishman of typically mixed stock, whose family trails back to Irish Kings on one side and Viking reavers on the other.
However. There is always an ‘however’. As inevitable as a man in black heading toward you across a snowfield . . .
Recently there’s been a fashion for quoting V for Vendetta – “People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. ”
What they miss is that The Government, any government, fears and despises their people in equal measure. Hence CCTV, hence unnumbered policemen baton charging people they’ve kettled and goaded into making a stand. Hence comments like ‘We’re all in this together’ as our elected ‘servants’ preserve and utilize loop holes to keep them wealthy, while chasing down the middle and working classes for ever more tax and belt tightening. The US is a terrible warning of trickle down economics. The UK should not play their game.
I’m not prone to insurrectionist speech, since we’ve all seen what happens when people without guns face people with them. However, I shall say this; we need to become the barbarians at our own gates. You’re free adults in a country that’s… becoming less free and more owned by interests that didn’t exist until the 1930s, and we’re Orwelled and Huxleyed into blathering about X-Factor and Royal Weddings when we should be looking at what our servants are doing in our name.
Today, Saturday 26th March 2011, 250,000 people marched in London (earlier the BBC were saying 500,000… by Monday it’ll be three men and a whippet) against the Government ‘austerity’ measures. Before the end of Sunday, 27th March I expect to hear some greased Tory tell me that the ‘Government shall not be intimidated’.
A servant cannot be intimidated.
A servant is meant to obey his master.
They seem to have forgotten this, or expect us to go along with the charade.
How we are to assert our authority, I leave to the individual conscience.
May we prevail.
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So the choice is clear. Either “the British need the smack of firm government”. Or our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
We have ourselves a William Blake fan here. Excellent read sir.
William Blake and Alan Moore.
Jerusalem plays a role in the original graphic novel of V for Vendetta.
I was just going to comment on that picture as well as the post. Both of them extraordinary!
As a meta comment on MMA, I love the picture choices Holte makes.
To get the pictures right, I have get into the spirit of the words. This post was an easy project for me.
I don’t select images for every post that goes up, but it would be an enjoyable job.
Also, you have stolen my thunder somewhat. I have been contemplating a post on the observations made by Neil Postman in his book ‘Amusing Ourselves To Death’. Still might. He was right on the money.
Sorry, old thing.
Still, I look forward to it.
At least you are old enough to remember when the TV Spots in Robocop were satire, not something you’d expect to hear preceded by ‘This Spring on ITV…’
Some people maintain satire died when Kissenger got the Nobel Peace Prize. I reckon it was when Big Brother appeared on Dutch TV.