Personal up-date.
I walked from my flat/appartment in Bridport to West Bay this morning, setting off at about 7am. It was very quiet, so I decided to follow the main road, which I hadn't done before, preferring the more scenic routes, walking over the fields, or the cycle route.
I walked from my flat/appartment in Bridport to West Bay this morning, setting off at about 7am. It was very quiet, so I decided to follow the main road, which I hadn't done before, preferring the more scenic routes, walking over the fields, or the cycle route.
It was just idyllic. As I entered West Bay I found myself following a group of rowers pushing their boat along the road towards the harbour. I watched them launch & disappear out to sea. Everyone was so friendly, saying good morning & what a fine day it was.
It was a fine day, & still is. Except that on my way back too Bridport I had an unpleasant encounter with someone who expressed his contempt for me for wandering into a private field. It reminded me of #DavidAaronovitch's contempt for me for not sharing his racial ideology.
They say familiarity breeds contempt, & maybe that's a part of it. David, I'm sure, would never show the contempt he does for me, to anyone one of a different race. And we are not just the same race, but fellow Native Englishmen.
Why such animosity & contempt for a compatriot?
I suspect it may have something to do with the English having been intimidated into embracing the values of their Norman conquerors, for whom property rights were sacred, & violation of which could be punished by death.
I suspect it may have something to do with the English having been intimidated into embracing the values of their Norman conquerors, for whom property rights were sacred, & violation of which could be punished by death.
I didn't violate David Aaronovitch's property rights, as I did this morning some farmer's, but what he surely considered to be the state's right to tell citizens how they should & shouldn't feel & think about race.
I'm not making this up, but think it very important.
I'm not making this up, but think it very important.
It wasn't the farmer himself who showed me such contempt & animosity for harmlessly violating his property rights, but one of his tenants, I suspect.
Why can the English be so hateful towards their fellow Englishmen, but other times, in other circumstances, so friendly?
Why can the English be so hateful towards their fellow Englishmen, but other times, in other circumstances, so friendly?
What, you may ask, does being English have to do with any of this?
A lot, actually, because it is supposed to, but clearly doesn't, denote a nation.
This is of fundamental importance to social science, but completely ignored by so-called social scientists.
A lot, actually, because it is supposed to, but clearly doesn't, denote a nation.
This is of fundamental importance to social science, but completely ignored by so-called social scientists.
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