North Stoke Life

Both the Left and the Right, equally, yearn for central authority over The People. That is, The People demand authority over The People. Curious. No one really knows why this is a good or a bad thing. Because no one has ever really gone into it.  The analysis  has always remained a 'tribal' activity where dialogue never gets beyond obedience to the tribe, left or right. THAT investigation is not permitted! Try and the tribe will send you into exile . It's a wonder how The People have yet to recognise this after thousands of years.  Thereby, remaining slaves constantly complaining about their slavery and projecting onto wealth and power in a rage of jealousy of wealth, as if that is of any use.  I laugh heartily when people talk about reparations for slavery. For out of all slaves in all times and all places, the totality of The People everywhere today, are by far the biggest generation of slaves ever known to history. Evidently.  So we, the slaves of today ...

Always the summers are slipping away. 

The prisoners dilemma paradox like all paradoxes and all game theory, is a fallacy - an intellectual theory which helps people escape from own complicity in the worlds problems. The intellect is used mostly in the world to find high sounding concepts which help the people, to escape . And hardly ever to find, the Good News . This is the primary work of the academies.  The prisoners dilemma implies that everyone has to change at the same time to save the world, which everyone believes is impossible. So why bother. Or, arrogantly, people are not smart enough to make the right choice. So how did we get to this society of systemic selfishness and ignorance? Was the world always selfish and ignorant? Or was it once selfless and virtuous? If the latter did we gradually start getting more and more selfish and ignorant over time and end up where we are today in a permanent state of selfishness and ignorance? Or aeons ago did we flip suddenly overnight from selflessness to selfishness? Whi...

from the Lion and the Unicorn, by George Orwell Following is how Orwell saw the battle of Left versus Right: Socialism: The only way an economy can be run with sufficient efficacy is when all means of production are OWNED by the state Capitalism: The only way an economy can be run with sufficient efficacy is when all means of production are OWNED privately To make myself abundantly clear I disagree with both of these ideological worldviews. It is an appallingly destructive false dichotomy. Ownership of the means of production is forbidden, in totality i.e. no one or no thing is allowed to own the means of production. Ignorance of this will wreak havoc in any society no matter how your tribe commands you. This neurosis on its own will cause governments of all party's to kill far more of its own citizens than all wars it fights against the enemy, and all pandemics and genocides combined. This is an ideology free observation. It is not an opinion or a theory. It will happen and histor...

Thanks to Grok for the following exposition. I cannot help feeling how we are close to where he was in 1941 - England on the cusp of conquest, yet with a deep patriotism that will ultimately rise to save her after a great struggle. "England Your England" is a famous 1941 essay by George Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair). It forms the first part of his longer pamphlet The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius , published in February 1941 by Secker & Warburg as part of the Searchlight Books series (which Orwell co-edited). Historical Context Orwell wrote it during The Blitz —the intense German bombing campaign against Britain in World War II. The essay famously opens with: "As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me." This sets a tone of urgency. Orwell, observing the war from London, reflects on English (and by extension British) national identity, culture, and character at a moment when invasion seemed...