Thread by @KiszelyPhilip

1/13 My fixed-term mortgage comes up for renewal at the end of January. No doubt I’ll be royally clobbered by the eye-watering interest rate. I’ll have to tighten my belt of course, but it’s not the end of the world. One thing occurs to me, though:

2/13 If I’m fatalistic about the prospect of shelling out, it’s because day-to day politics has conditioned me to chaos. I mean, I knew cost was on the cards, so it’s not a surprise; but neither is it really an upset.

3/13 I understand that nothing works anymore - and that’s just the way it is. Does anyone else feel the same? The police are ideologically opposed to policing. The border patrol supports an open-door policy. The government is clueless. And there’s no opposition worth a damn.

4/13 Young people are desperate to curtail their personal freedoms in the name a greater good that might best be described as a vision of hell. They don’t know whether they’re coming or going. But one thing is certain:

5/13 they’ve been beaten to breaking-point by apocalyptic narratives on the one hand, and a dreary diet of guilt and repentance on the other.

6/13 There’s narcissism and stupidity, too - by the bucket load. But there always has been.
The chattering classes inhabit an imaginary universe of faux ‘compassion’ that is light years away from the streets in which a kid will knife another for a ‘disrespectful’ look.

7/13 Meanwhile, that kid’s younger siblings ransack McDonalds outlets for fun (and chicken nuggets), knowing full well nothing will happen by way of correction. It’s just the way it is.

8/13 Many people don’t actually live anymore, either; not in the real sense of the word. Instead, they identify on several planes of fantasy. They’re encouraged in this role-play at every stage of life, from the cradle to the grave. What is there to show for it?

9/13 An epidemic of depression, anxiety, personality disorder, loneliness, and deranging despair. These conditions are accepted as the norm - and I guess they are at that.
And there’s wave after wave of misogyny. And wave after wave again. Have you noticed?

10/13 Spend 10 charming minutes on here if you don’t believe me. It’s primarily of the newer sort: gas-lighting and abuse in a call to #bekind. And children seem to be open season once again, for ‘minor-attracted persons’.
My point is this:

11/13 why bother about a few extra quid when the plane has crashed into the mountain? I wonder how long it can go on. There’s the question of what will replace it, if and when the house of cards that is the system comes tumbling down.

12/13 If I’m quite happy in myself, which I admit I am, it’s because I’m resigned to the fact that nothing works anymore - like I say; and I know that, to make sense of things, I can’t look much beyond myself. That said, we need to fight back.

13/13 We need to begin envisaging an environment that functions properly. We have to offer ourselves the prospect of an alternative that is worth building. We should push back when coerced into acknowledging fiction as reality.
Champion sanity. It’s a moral obligation

*plains