Good post, thanks, summing up our current situation. In my view, we do need to repeal certain legislation; the Equality, Human Rights, Communications, Public Order Acts, etc. But I fear that no-one will have the courage to do this. What I suspect will happen is this; lack of enforcement over time. The issues with Human Rights will become obvious even to the most biased judges as the consequences come closer and closer to their homes in the leafy suburbs in which they live. The Employment Tribunal system is close to collapse and will inevitably fall over after the Employment Rights Bill is passed. Prosecuting people for posts on social media will become more difficult as people learn that if they do not plead guilty but elect jury trial, they are likely to be acquitted. Plus there's no room in prisons for them. Police officers are already bailing out by the hundreds and so they will be less and less able (and willing) to enforce the draconian restrictions demanded by the government. Public opinion is already way ahead of all political parties, including Reform, who are seen as too soft and suspect in some areas. Vigilante type groups are already forming to protect women. Northern Ireland is a canary in the coal mine for what is ahead.
The UK does not do revolution - it will change gradually by means of the people themselves. I am hopeful of a Christian renaissance in this country, but I think the future will be the Northern Ireland or Balkan solution - distinct communities, self-governed and where the Rule of UK law is largely absent.
A good and well written article and analysis. You are indeed correct, without order there can be no culture or civilisation. But I would note something that you didn't address and which is psychology and how this affects not only the individual but those around them on a micro and macro social basis.
Psychology is foundational in understandig what people do and why and how they interact with others and probably consequences. "Your environment shapes you", this statement is very true on a multiplication of levels. physiologically, psychologically and sociologically. Humans are social beings after all.
While opposites might attract initially and often briefly, like seek like which is the basis of stability and order. There is also the fact that certain things attract certain kinds of people. Petty tyrants and autocrats are attracted to institutions that allow them to prosperity and take control, subverting them to their own ends. Which is arguably what has happened throughout all the institutions of the West, not just America and the Dis-United Kingdom. But the EUSSR (European Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which is what the EU has morphed into) too. All of the West has been infested and compromised by such people at all levels. One might ask why and how this has happened, if you agree that such has actually occurred?
O'Sullivan's first law states "those institutions that are not specifically right-wing, will over time become left-wing." Arguably and objectively this has already happened and occurred quite sometime ago. Were talking decades not years.
The next question is that if the institutions have become infested, compromised and subverted is it possible to redeem them? Taking into account that the institutions are effectivly wholly captured by the left-wing". Can the institutions be redeemed, is it possible taking into account what that means and requires, and that those who infest and control those institutions will not voluntarily do so, as it would be not only detrimental to them, but existentially catastrophic. They won't do so and it's almost impossible to enforce compliance when those seeking to do so are either lone individuals or massively outnumbered and in hostile territory. I sincerely doubt that it is possible. The rot has gone on too long and too many are involved at all levels.
What's a possible solution? Fortunately there is a couple of successful examples. Both the former Soviet Socialist Republics of the Warsaw Pact, being Czech, Slovenia and Hungary came up with a viable and effective solution. Alternative Polis. When the institutions are corrupt they cannot be reformed or redeemed, they must instead be replaced in total with alternatives that he been prefabricated and are not populated by any of those who infest the current institutions. Those who have been part of the previous institutions are prevented from interaction with or entering into the Alternative replacement institutions, which must of necessity be overly and entirely right-wing, culturally and intellectually nationalist in origin. Those part of the existing regimes, must be removed and isolated away from their replacements and from any positions of power, influence and trust within society and culture. Furthermore they must be exposed and completely excised from society, as they are an existential and permanent threat to everyone and everything as long as they are present.
Alternative Polis, is a longterm strategy, that requires careful planning and implementation and dedication from those who are moral, ethical, patriotic and able.
Never put all your eggs in one basket. While I have presented an alternative and one that I think might work well, it cannot work as a uni-veriant solution, politics must be backed up with enforcement and the effective means to do so. Which is a different subject and discussion.
The West is at the end phase of its civilisation. For students of history all the signs are present and they are clear. This doesn't mean that something different and perhaps better cannot arise to succeed it, rather than destroy and replace it with something alien.
If one asks a doctor when do you stop treatment for an illness? The answer is invariably when the treatment is worse than the cure, or that the body is too far gone and cannot be saved, then all you can do is make it comfortable as possible and ease it's passing. I'd suggest that we are at the later point, not the former. To use a metaphor western civilization is riddled with hostile parasitic organisms and metastasising cancer throughout. It cannot be saved, it's passing however can be eased until it's successor or replacement can come into being and take it's place.
This is of course just my opinion, feel free to agree or disagree as you choose.
I do agree, these institutions are ideologically captured whether they realise it or not, they will not reform without kicking and screaming, raising your point- are they even capable of being reformed?
In your scenario, we would be looking at something similar to Future 2- a full reset where institutions are replaced instead of reformed.
Good post, thanks, summing up our current situation. In my view, we do need to repeal certain legislation; the Equality, Human Rights, Communications, Public Order Acts, etc. But I fear that no-one will have the courage to do this. What I suspect will happen is this; lack of enforcement over time. The issues with Human Rights will become obvious even to the most biased judges as the consequences come closer and closer to their homes in the leafy suburbs in which they live. The Employment Tribunal system is close to collapse and will inevitably fall over after the Employment Rights Bill is passed. Prosecuting people for posts on social media will become more difficult as people learn that if they do not plead guilty but elect jury trial, they are likely to be acquitted. Plus there's no room in prisons for them. Police officers are already bailing out by the hundreds and so they will be less and less able (and willing) to enforce the draconian restrictions demanded by the government. Public opinion is already way ahead of all political parties, including Reform, who are seen as too soft and suspect in some areas. Vigilante type groups are already forming to protect women. Northern Ireland is a canary in the coal mine for what is ahead.
The UK does not do revolution - it will change gradually by means of the people themselves. I am hopeful of a Christian renaissance in this country, but I think the future will be the Northern Ireland or Balkan solution - distinct communities, self-governed and where the Rule of UK law is largely absent.
Very thought-provoking - thank you.
Thanks Helen!
A good and well written article and analysis. You are indeed correct, without order there can be no culture or civilisation. But I would note something that you didn't address and which is psychology and how this affects not only the individual but those around them on a micro and macro social basis.
Psychology is foundational in understandig what people do and why and how they interact with others and probably consequences. "Your environment shapes you", this statement is very true on a multiplication of levels. physiologically, psychologically and sociologically. Humans are social beings after all.
While opposites might attract initially and often briefly, like seek like which is the basis of stability and order. There is also the fact that certain things attract certain kinds of people. Petty tyrants and autocrats are attracted to institutions that allow them to prosperity and take control, subverting them to their own ends. Which is arguably what has happened throughout all the institutions of the West, not just America and the Dis-United Kingdom. But the EUSSR (European Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which is what the EU has morphed into) too. All of the West has been infested and compromised by such people at all levels. One might ask why and how this has happened, if you agree that such has actually occurred?
O'Sullivan's first law states "those institutions that are not specifically right-wing, will over time become left-wing." Arguably and objectively this has already happened and occurred quite sometime ago. Were talking decades not years.
The next question is that if the institutions have become infested, compromised and subverted is it possible to redeem them? Taking into account that the institutions are effectivly wholly captured by the left-wing". Can the institutions be redeemed, is it possible taking into account what that means and requires, and that those who infest and control those institutions will not voluntarily do so, as it would be not only detrimental to them, but existentially catastrophic. They won't do so and it's almost impossible to enforce compliance when those seeking to do so are either lone individuals or massively outnumbered and in hostile territory. I sincerely doubt that it is possible. The rot has gone on too long and too many are involved at all levels.
What's a possible solution? Fortunately there is a couple of successful examples. Both the former Soviet Socialist Republics of the Warsaw Pact, being Czech, Slovenia and Hungary came up with a viable and effective solution. Alternative Polis. When the institutions are corrupt they cannot be reformed or redeemed, they must instead be replaced in total with alternatives that he been prefabricated and are not populated by any of those who infest the current institutions. Those who have been part of the previous institutions are prevented from interaction with or entering into the Alternative replacement institutions, which must of necessity be overly and entirely right-wing, culturally and intellectually nationalist in origin. Those part of the existing regimes, must be removed and isolated away from their replacements and from any positions of power, influence and trust within society and culture. Furthermore they must be exposed and completely excised from society, as they are an existential and permanent threat to everyone and everything as long as they are present.
Alternative Polis, is a longterm strategy, that requires careful planning and implementation and dedication from those who are moral, ethical, patriotic and able.
Never put all your eggs in one basket. While I have presented an alternative and one that I think might work well, it cannot work as a uni-veriant solution, politics must be backed up with enforcement and the effective means to do so. Which is a different subject and discussion.
The West is at the end phase of its civilisation. For students of history all the signs are present and they are clear. This doesn't mean that something different and perhaps better cannot arise to succeed it, rather than destroy and replace it with something alien.
If one asks a doctor when do you stop treatment for an illness? The answer is invariably when the treatment is worse than the cure, or that the body is too far gone and cannot be saved, then all you can do is make it comfortable as possible and ease it's passing. I'd suggest that we are at the later point, not the former. To use a metaphor western civilization is riddled with hostile parasitic organisms and metastasising cancer throughout. It cannot be saved, it's passing however can be eased until it's successor or replacement can come into being and take it's place.
This is of course just my opinion, feel free to agree or disagree as you choose.
I do agree, these institutions are ideologically captured whether they realise it or not, they will not reform without kicking and screaming, raising your point- are they even capable of being reformed?
In your scenario, we would be looking at something similar to Future 2- a full reset where institutions are replaced instead of reformed.
Only time will tell the future we end up with…
Great article.
Thanks Alex!