Metaboilism

Reflection on increasingly polarised political pantomimes internationally leads to coining of a word not easily found in dictionaries ... or any so far ... the word popped up in the context of the tendency for human bodies to pull poisons from the blood into boils ... and since everything connects the leap to society and our politics may help explain the unlikely leaders pulling votes from disenchanted humans using poisonous rhetoric portraying humans from other countries, religions and other artificial separations as Them and not Us ... Boil in Chief of the Western World raises his game, possibly to distract his citizens from his new status as Impeached President ... close attention to Radio 4 notes the usual influence from our old ally and its agencies ... Defence or Defense is cited with no reference to the distance between the BSA and the Middle East, where they keep the oil ... meanwhile, in Iran, the political differences are subsumed in a burst of national fervour ... Russia and China, recently engaged in naval exercise in the Gulf with Iran keep their powder dry ... for now ... so much for Peace on Earth and all that Christmas guff ...

Stepping back from these games, with all their deadly consequences, enables return to peaceful life ... not to be complacent and hopefully fit and able to help lance local boils as they ripen ... anyway, local action increasingly required in the fields of social care and health ... let's see how the rather paternalistic agencies tasked with dealing with these operate in the brave new world of The Eton Mess, our very own boil, and his very radical and unelected adviser ...

Technology drives progress and peer to peer possibilities undermine hierarchies eventually of course ... information speeds up to a pace rather past the capability of older folks, so while a little wisdom may be welcomed, as noted before, our main task is to get out of the way ... and maybe share out some of the money we appear to have grabbed along the way ... before the whole money system is transformed to something simpler and fairer ...