GhostyGoo wrote:Much of the suggestions in this thread are quite "Orwellian". It's no suprise though since half of us are skint or in debt and the other half are footballers.
I'm proud of my suggestions and don't care if it's Orwellian or something else. Being nice towards a scum and said scum will take opportunity and before you realize, they will have gained "power". Lol "top" footballers don't deserve their wages. They are an anomaly!
Seriously though. Most intellectual people i debate the matters of reform with
do always fall immediately foul of Orwellian/Huxlian leanings. I believe it is because society has finally reached the state of absolute paranoia which we have been perverted towards for centuries. I'm not going into who is doing this perverting, it is only important to recognise that we are in an
unnatural state of mind/being.
Human nature isn't nice. Dark side of humans develop when they are free or installed in office. Countries became too nice towards them because we didn't know limits with human rights in our own countries.Our problem, in Britain, is mainly threefold.
1. We are under constant pressure from an unnatural state of governance called The European Union. It causes "Double Think" in the higher classes by appearing to be one thing while causing another. It's hard not to "doomsay" on this matter but i believe that if you are in favour of The European Union because it strengthens your "European" country, subsequently assuring your traditional diversity you'd better spend a bit of time researching The Tri-Lateral Commision. The European Union is simply another smoking gun in the arsenal of Capitalism. Which brings me neatly to point 2.
You think I'm in favour of EU for that? Of course not!
I know what's the grand scheme behind EU..and I don't mind some kind of superstate being built. Nationalism is the cause of wars among other reasons, if EU was to overtake states, at least it would be gone. Not that I want states or regions to disappear completly of course. But at least stopping to reason nationally but instead europeanly.
"EU is evil, EU is our enemy", sorry it doesn't work with me. Nothing is perfect, and clearly not returning to primitive "Europe of nations" state that will be a step forward! Reform EU yes, destroy it, and you are likely to find deaf ears from me no matter what you will say after!
2. Britain's society is based on Socialism. Not Capitalism. The sooner you learn that the better. For obvious clues on your voyage of understanding take note of the Benefit System, The NHS and The Old Age Pension, these are Socialist by their very nature. Back to the point. Our proud Socialist society which once held us as being the single most charitable Country in the world (and despite our comparative size) is being strangled by Capitalist influences. In answer to those of you who are turning green at this very notion I would like to point out how WE (the people) saved you (the banking system) with OUR hard earned money through taxes. So, now (despite many many good and decent areas of our socialist system being privatised by the fascists during the late eighties/early nineties) the banking system is to be treated as a socialist consideration? The banking system is socially funded alongside the NHS, the DHSS etc etc. But not our buses and trains. At the risk of passion over professionalism in debate; for heaven's sakes man! even the Mail System is constantly threatened but the very fundament of the Capitalist System is being
funded as though it's a burning social consideration. It's not. The banks are failing? Sod it.
I'm a Socialist and i have no interest in capitalising on anything but ethics and morals. Therein lieth the problem. I can't deny that leaving thousands of innocent people without their savings is wrong wrong wrong. It's immoral and so the bank has strengthened its stranglehold. Publically funded Capitalism, it's perverse by it's very nature. The next Capitalist gainsayer to frequent this part of the forum should mark these words well: If it was not for the Socialist undercurrent of the British people Capitalism would already be dead. A starving leech with nothing left to suck on but it's own bloated neck.
You don't want that, does not mean it's the same for others. Capitalising (when done properly) is the best source of income you can have. It is an added income to your wage. Or a bank account being nicely enough stored in, will help to buy later, or have a "shield" for bad moments. (not to be excessively used as a shield though, it's bad for economy!)3. We are systematically useless at parenting. It's our own fault, thanks to what i refer to as "The World War" (the one that started in 1914 and ended on or around 3 October 1990) we've not had it easy in this respect. In the early years of the world war we had massive collateral damage in the form of men (i'm not saying at all that women did not lay down their lives so please don't throw that at me, it's simple fact in simple terms). When we finally started to get parenting right (during the sixties) it wasn't long before depression made it awful again. Our parenting skills are directly proportionate to our social stability because as humans we are not very good at treating children impartially to the state we find ourselves in. As a result the seventies were pretty dismal where parenting skills are concerned. Subsequently the eighties were a no brainer. Socially we never REALLY survived the depression of the seventies and the class rifts grew ever wider. The final nail in the parenting coffin is the current trend of child parents. Children having children is the death rattle of society. It is causality in motion - as parents we've failed to instill a sense of just how important our children are
into our children!
The children do not understand how very important life is and how very important the decision to reproduce is. No amount of telling humans they shouldn't be having babies is going to solve this, it's anyone's inalienable right! What's scariest about this last point is that the causality doesn't end here, it goes deeper, our society has a total and utter lack of respect.
Oh please not that again!
From a religious point of view I might understand. But even. They also need to realize that now with the current chaotic growth of humanity during last century and current, everyone needs to lower their expectation in offspring amount, if not zero it. What you are saying leads us all in the wall. What Universe proposed regarding children is right. People who can handle/afford it doit, those who don't, follow state limits (ie like in China, even if they put it to everyone). Because oh surprise! In our countries (not even mentionning other continents than North America/Europe), guess who are those mostly doing it the rabbit way? The latter of course! Those who can't handle children, and who do them just to make cash off the state. What a bunch of parasites!
Sure, not all families exceeding 2 children are like this and for this. I just meant big families in certain social backgrounds.The politicians are stealing money from us,
our children are punishing us for our lack of respect towards them and all the while the Oligarchs are gleefully creeping closer to the gold. Thanks to paranoia and a ridiculous notion of self-preservation, we fund their endeavours.
Youth criminality needs to be neutralized...if that was the kind of disrespect you meant. And I have (costly yes) ideas to solve that. Mentionned one and briefly another.What do i propose? Well, i'm going to limit myself only to the points i've raised, mostly due to sensibility and a little bit of urgency on my part! I've finished my brew.
On the matter of The European Union i believe we should finally give in to "Laissez-faire". Basically the capitalists have been crying into their cornflakes for centuries thanks to governments "meddling in their affairs". Fine. You want laissez-faire? Have it. The European Union can continue with it's capitalist trade manifesto unhindered by State Governance BUT it MUST agree to work both ways. The European Union should not EVER under
any circumstance form "policy" for any member state in any matters other than trade. Laissez-faire? You do your job and let the people tell the elected government how to do theirs!
Choose Socialism, or not. no more double think. If you are unlucky enough to be banking with a failing bank weather the storm yourself or jump ship fast. No more taxes spent on saving anything of a non-socialist nature OR no taxes at all! If you lose everything through a bad banking choice i will gladly donate some of my hard earned money to help you back onto your feet but i will not help the
soulless bastards who sat by and fattened themselves while you drowned.
What a BORING and completly UNinteresting EU that would be! I would say abstention in elections would gain 20 points if not more, if it was reduced to that. Going backwards with EU..pffft!
If banks fall without support, 1929 is all over again! You want that to happen? I don't. Yes taxes are annoying. But some high spheres parasites shouldn't be a reason for downfalling of the system. Catching heads of the **Filtered** and the system will be clean for some time before other opportunists and parasites do their way in.Parenting. Pull out of "the west" and subsequently every "western conflict" (obviously some concentrated effort will have to spent on restoring our acceptable foreign policy) while focusing implicitly on our education system and our children. Use our armed forces to keep our own streets in order since the problem HAS elevated to a degree which the police can't rightly be expected to deal with. We (the people) have failed our children. It's not entirely our fault, just mostly. Something drastic has to be done to restore the peace. I'm not talking about shooting teenage yobs but i am talking about utilising our tactically astute ground forces to win our estates back. Stop teaching religion in schools. It's long since ceased to be a healthy subject. Philosophy should be taught to children in place of all forms of religious education, if you can understand the old testament you can understand Kant, no problem. All religious education should be taught (by parental consent) in "religious buildings" e.g. churches, mosques etc. This is the only area i would like to see an Orwellian approach applied. These religious buildings should be audited and infiltrated regularly to make sure the messages they are presenting are
faithful to their cause (this one rule for all, find me one religion which teaches violence and i will close your "book". No exceptions to the rule). Beyond this religious education should be a familial matter, a matter of the home. Not a scholarly one. The places where our armed forces are needed to win back our streets should be given positive life skills. Anger management, meditation, philosophy. Help them to be better, happier, more productive people but not in the name of capitalism through advert campaigns and relaity tv (this is clearly NOT WORKING!) but through answering their fundamental questions and providing them to further the answering of these questions with their own belief in what it means to be "being". If they refuse to take part in regular help sessions they should have benefits severely cut. This should be explained in a healthy manor - try explaining
how and why we have the benefit system. Help them to understand self and the nature of being.
Lol I sort of agree with you on army part (well, I'm unsure more likely). But...do you realise it's a right wing idea?Most of people who are more or less agreeing to that, are usually right wing citizens who want more radical way than what state currently offers them. Anyway, I (and those people) agree said army would be placed in "risked" suburbs/neighboorhood BUT not turn into a military state with soldiers everywhere. Only some places need to be "pacified" (lol at the word!)If aspects of my suggestions are carried out we will begin to move towards an existential paradigm as opposed to our current nihilistic paradigm. Once we stop asking ourselves questions we have no way of answering in any other way but with "nothings" or "nevers" (Sartre - Being and Nothingness) and instead ask questions of ourselves we have the capacity to form healthy answers/feelings to i can promise you will have a drastic reduction in petty crime, violent crime, drug abuse and all other aspects of social degradation and why? Because the cause of all this degradation is basic need. Need of money. In a capitalist society, if you haven't got money you have no worth. You nihilate yourself from worth by notion of your own apparent lacking imposed upon you by consumerist ideals governed by capitalism. Britain's estates, therefore, have a basic need and are worthless. Nihilistic, violent, angry, futile, worthless, needful nothings.
This has always existed. Difference being, medias didn't exist before, and we weren't informed about it.Now try asking me "why?" next time you hear that a "youth" has stolen a vehicle and rammed it into another vehicle killing not only itself but also the mother and two children in the back seat of the other. Why? Because of worthlessness. It's hardly shocking, really. It is in fact a matter of causality and therefore quite logical. If you are a child and you feel worthless, what do you generally do about it? You crave punishment because even time spent on puinishment is time spent and time is money, right? Worth from worthlessness through deplorable behaviour.
-Goo™