In 2016, I so nearly wrote an article which was sitting in my head and would've been the best piece I've ever written. Story of my life. 😭
It was right before the referendum. Its thesis was: no matter who wins, everything is screwed. Forever. The ultimate counsel of despair.
It was right before the referendum. Its thesis was: no matter who wins, everything is screwed. Forever. The ultimate counsel of despair.
https://twitter.com/MarinaPurkiss/status/1500459462552924162
- If Remain win, everything is screwed because the country is split down the middle, the EU is crap - look at how it's treated Greece! - the boil won't be lanced and politicians will act like it's business as usual
- If Leave win based on a pack of lies, half the country will never forgive those responsible. Traitors. Criminals.
Swathes of the other half will wake up to how what's being promised is impossible, and never trust democratic politics again.
Swathes of the other half will wake up to how what's being promised is impossible, and never trust democratic politics again.
- No matter whether Leave or Remain win, Europe is in decline. Welfare states will be decimated everywhere as more and more money is needed to provide pensions and healthcare to ageing populations... who are reactionary and don't want immigration.
So who pays for it?
So who pays for it?
- Their being so reactionary and living so much longer than before means the kind of change we desperately need won't come... and in the UK, Labour is totally screwed by FPTP and can't win if it offers that sort of change. Meaning even MORE public disenchantment.
- China and India are rising. The world is titling eastwards.
Towards an religious, ethnonationalist state... and another which controls absolutely everything in its people's lives, and is the equivalent of George Orwell's boot stamping on a human face.
Towards an religious, ethnonationalist state... and another which controls absolutely everything in its people's lives, and is the equivalent of George Orwell's boot stamping on a human face.
- The kind of change desperately needed in the US to actually help people and send white nationalism packing won't come, because the Constitution effectively forbids it.
Specifically, through its insane over-representation of small, rural states.
Specifically, through its insane over-representation of small, rural states.
Meaning that despite an actual Democratic majority, it's impossible for the Democrats to deliver. Which will disenchant more and more and undermine the idea of democracy in the US altogether.
- The whole world needs a new Bretton Woods. Which won't happen.
- The whole world needs a new Bretton Woods. Which won't happen.
It won't happen because large developing states won't allow it to; neither will First World tax havens.
Meaning that jobs continue to disappear out of the West, and pay continues to flatline.
- And on top of all this: climate change. Which we won't act on.
Meaning that jobs continue to disappear out of the West, and pay continues to flatline.
- And on top of all this: climate change. Which we won't act on.
First World governments won't act because their citizens won't pay for anything which affects their ways of ease.
Large developing countries like India won't act because their view is: why should they? Why shouldn't they have what we've all had for so long?
Large developing countries like India won't act because their view is: why should they? Why shouldn't they have what we've all had for so long?
"Whatever happens next Thursday, everything is screwed. Forever".
It's the biggest writing regret of my life that I didn't publish it. And it didn't even mention nuclear war.
With regard to which, I highly recommend nobody re-watches Threads. TV to make you shit yourself.
It's the biggest writing regret of my life that I didn't publish it. And it didn't even mention nuclear war.
With regard to which, I highly recommend nobody re-watches Threads. TV to make you shit yourself.
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