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Been reluctant to piss some more petrol on the flames round our feet, but this needs saying: this shit - actually, this state-breaking shit - was entirely predictable, & the fault not of the "elites" (exhibit A: a wickerman full of furious fascist cunts denouncing elites they...
...don't dominate) but of the ideology they've peddled these last 40 years. Let's not euphemise it by trying to be 5th grade smart & calling it Neo-liberalism; call it for what it is: systemised theft and class warfare to cover your tracks. Enough Spartism & back to the current..
...shit. A fatuous philosophy which garlanded whole-scale theft with a cultish child-like faith in the Power of the Market obviates the need for politics, so for 3 political generations the parties of government (thanks to our corrupt electoral system) have denied themselves...
...even the pretence that politics can change anything (Perry Anderson conceded defeat in The. New Left Review in 2001), which left the legislature as little more than a shoo-in or beauty contest for cranks & careerists. "Politics", on top of being the obsession of a corrupt...
...media because its ceaseless osmosis with politics made for dead easy copy, endless up having very little to do with the inhabitants of the state it purported to serve. But worse than that, The Market had neither time nor need for the republican virtues which cohere states....
...so that education was merely to get a job; public spaces were bought & enclosed by corporations; extraordinarily enough, these fuckers were dumb enough, in their triumph, to prove Marx 100% right in saying Capitalism commodifies everything into sacks of flesh & hope, just...
...there to be milked dry if it surplus value by the already rich. The trouble is, when you hollow out the fabric of the state, but you still need it in order to continue your salvage operation, is that you need to replace the commonwealth with something to stop everyone just...
...walking away, which is why our media, owned by foreign psychopaths, has spent 40 years selling the idea of English Exceptionalism, while the ideology it's promoted has stripped the fucker bare. Which means we end up, thanks to the thieves, with a total divorce from reality...
...which has cocooned us in lies, fuelled by unrealisable hopes, dreams of taking back a country that was never ours in the first place, conviction that democracy is about the will of the people when, in fact, it's about the tiny space where compromise huddles between hatred...
...and BREXIT, in these circumstances, isn't just the perfect storm: it was also inevitable. In a Potemkin country, the only thing worth screaming about is a dumb idea flimsier than the vestiges, on waking, of a wet dream. They're all lying, because to say the truth would be...
...almost literally unbearable, in a physical sense. Their tongues would swell in their faces as they tried to say "We lied to you; we always do; we're the worst people who've ever lived, but you know what? We're not as bad as you are, because you're so fucking dumb you...
...believed us." And that's across the board, fromthe further shores of Leave to Remain. We're like toddlers in a swee shop having an endless tantrum, our romper suits caked in dried vomit, wanting more candy. We need to grow up. We've had this coming for a long time. And...
...though no one of us, in all our lovely, loathsome variety, needs the shit, as a nation we deserve it. Hang on tight, everyone, and look after the people you live. I fear it's all going to be torn down. And it doesn't need rebuilding.
