North Stoke Life

I agree with your points and understand them fully. I have a differing philosophy about life. I would find the aftermath an incredibly exciting prospect in spite of the grotesque results and the harsh prospects ahead. The challenge of that would be the restoration, of a life to live once again. Rather than a living death surrounded by a tamper of gold and a pusher of marble. Today the west, perhaps civilisation itself is in sharp decline. Maybe at the same scale as we saw in Rome and maybe for the same reasons. Maybe irreversible. There seems to be no return to 'normalcy'. We're being led by demagogues on all sides of the political spectrum. And being compelled to say things we know are obscene and untrue by the so called law all sides equally demand is enacted.  And the gifts handed out magnanimously by past heroic victors are being squandered by the vanquished and their newly granted power is being abused, at scale, in a bitter and spiteful revenge for not sta...

I often ask myself what could motivate the apparent destruction of the nation’s thousand year heritage and legacy by its own people. My proposition is that Britain is not controlled by a secret cabal issuing orders from above, but by a Popular Front whose competing members act autonomously while converging to protect the political and social order upon which they all depend. And that it's this Popular Front we can often hear called 'They' when people are trying to understand it all. Definition: A Popular Front is an alliance of former enemies who temporarily unite because they fear a common opponent more than they fear one another. Even after gaining overwhelming national power, it cannot permanently resolve the contradictions within itself, which eventually sees its own downfall and a new order eventually emerges anyway. This essay examines the recurring political mechanism and collective psychology through which a Popular Front crystallises. It asks why the Front repeate...