Excitement mounts in the Disunited Kingdom as divisions widen and the opportunity to imagine we may exercise power by casting a vote in a rigged game approaches ... media report lies as balance for the other side's truth, or lies blatantly and when exposed apologises in small print ... here in the Labour stronghold of NW Durham large sums of money are spent using the Royal Mail to deliver propaganda, itself feeling like a breach of privacy ... the Tories so far sending seven separate leaflets as they target Labour Brexiteers, only one introducing the absentee would-be MP, the rest pretending to be something else, the evidence of provenance only in the small print at the bottom ...
Factor in the social media manipulation and it appears we have the best democracy money can buy ... indeed the old anarchist slogan, Don't Vote, it only encourages them, seems relevant and maybe the polarisation is deliberate, to ensure opting out of the rigged game doesn't become so widespread as to destroy the illusion of its validity ...
Equanimity mostly holds, though clearly the idea of Trump junior returned to the seat of political power appals. .. opinion polls, banned in other democracies for their influence on the outcome whilst pretending objectivity, suggest DUK may move closer to BSA. .. a toxic alliance culturally, politically and militarily ...
Still, who knows how all the dramas play out when longer term a step change in human consciousness itself is required? As Saint Greta keeps telling us on her amazing voyage around the world popping up in the most important forums (fora?), The House is on Fire ... perhaps the greatest polarised choice we are currently offered to press our buttons is between Trump and Greta rather than the local game between Boris and Corbyn ( the persistent use of first name for the former and surname of the latter surely not accidental?) ...
All this holier than thou speculation isn't meant to dismiss the very painful consequences of political decisions, not least the one on Thursday ... though perspective suggests that whatever the outcome compassion must prevail ... eventually ...
On the personal front, the project to engage with other humans sees three visitors on consecutive days, an unusual occurrence. .. and another tomorrow after today's trip to the pantomime with the elders ... just driving though, Jack and the Beanstalk far to scary, with that nasty giant, or was it an ogre? ... memory itself a subject for investigation, especially after the visit of a childhood friend with much sharper memories from our shared experience in Verwood ... whether it's incipient Alzheimer's, a more varied life with more memories to file away or whatever, certainly not storied as a problem ... in a life and a world where language and stories may morph into myths and hang around as thought forms, even become reality, examining old stories for contemporary relevance and telling new ones to help birth better worlds seems worth a try, for the benefit of the storyteller and the whole, of which he is just a tiny part ... or, as the ego imagines, the centre of the universe ... current examples perhaps the narcissists mentioned above ...
Year and decade end approaches, plans laid for Land of Joy woodland work this weekend, village community Christmas (capital C a compassionate concession to readers invested in the other JC), New Year at Brockwood Park plus the July work week there and maybe a dialogue week in February too ... as for more Caminos ... let's see!
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