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Post by melrose on Jul 7, 2023 15:06:49 GMT
Particularly with the rate of social, cultural and technological change, we've never really had as complex a time to live in. The old simple narratives politicians or schools of political thought relayed dont make much sense. Our politicians today have given up on trying to paint narratives for the safer ground of simple sloganeering, and the gap is one everybody sees through. Its a time where the individual and how the individual feels are validated, and the tools for individual communication are more powerful than those of mass communication ; yet paradoxically there's an alienating nausea in hearing a constant stream of opinions and needing to decipher them. In Western Europe, but especially the UK, we are living through a great contraction, the end of constant progress and growth and the realisation that we are becoming poorer, less fair, less significant. We all know that the middle class is shrinking and that working poverty has resurfaced as a norm. Yet liberal thought and the evolution of our sense of rights hasnt stopped; it bounds on. Calling someone 'WOKE' is essentially a cry for attentiom, a feeling of under-representation. Well, we're all underrepresented. I dont think it's metastatised into a clear final form but I would argue we are reaching a point where the mass of people consciously or not reject the form of governance we have. Rich soil for any old snakeskin oil seller with a simple anti establishment narrative. Take back control, anti 15 min cities, we need our sovereignity, 'they' are lying to us.. these are all more sexy ways to make sense of the world and our implicit alienation to what's in front of us than what I wrote in the first 5 paragraphs... But I'd wager those paragraphs are closer to the mark. Human nature, we crave meaning and security. We've by accident or design made a 21st century lacking in both. Living in a washing machine of individualism and capitalism watching the colours run, holding on to the ridges in the tumbler. I think it's called post-truth. Anything anyone says about anything is equal and as valid to any other opinion held by the so-called experts and their globalist elite handlers. Wnen I was a kid we just had Harold Wilson and Ted Heath. Although looking back there is probably a whole bucket of worms there. But people were, generally, rooted in reality. Not so now.
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Post by OneBeat on Jul 7, 2023 15:07:16 GMT
On the plus side, we have plenty of stuff to write songs about. Any happy, upbeat songs? Um, well one song is called ‘Still Rocking Against Racism’, that makes me happy.
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Jul 7, 2023 18:50:45 GMT
Particularly with the rate of social, cultural and technological change, we've never really had as complex a time to live in. The old simple narratives politicians or schools of political thought relayed dont make much sense. Our politicians today have given up on trying to paint narratives for the safer ground of simple sloganeering, and the gap is one everybody sees through. Its a time where the individual and how the individual feels are validated, and the tools for individual communication are more powerful than those of mass communication ; yet paradoxically there's an alienating nausea in hearing a constant stream of opinions and needing to decipher them. In Western Europe, but especially the UK, we are living through a great contraction, the end of constant progress and growth and the realisation that we are becoming poorer, less fair, less significant. We all know that the middle class is shrinking and that working poverty has resurfaced as a norm. Yet liberal thought and the evolution of our sense of rights hasnt stopped; it bounds on. Calling someone 'WOKE' is essentially a cry for attentiom, a feeling of under-representation. Well, we're all underrepresented. I dont think it's metastatised into a clear final form but I would argue we are reaching a point where the mass of people consciously or not reject the form of governance we have. Rich soil for any old snakeskin oil seller with a simple anti establishment narrative. Take back control, anti 15 min cities, we need our sovereignity, 'they' are lying to us.. these are all more sexy ways to make sense of the world and our implicit alienation to what's in front of us than what I wrote in the first 5 paragraphs... But I'd wager those paragraphs are closer to the mark. Human nature, we crave meaning and security. We've by accident or design made a 21st century lacking in both. Living in a washing machine of individualism and capitalism watching the colours run, holding on to the ridges in the tumbler. That's a decent synopsis of the current fiasco. Another telling factor is the marginalisation of religion in the developed world. Not that I'm advocating for it, but it was a crutch for those that needed it and in it's absence these other arcane beliefs have flourished.
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Post by saintsfan73 on Jul 27, 2023 10:06:15 GMT
Latest from Matt is that the BBC were in on 9/11. Fair play if you're going to go down the conspiracy theory route then you might as well go in balls deep.
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Post by OneBeat on Jul 27, 2023 10:24:36 GMT
Latest from Matt is that the BBC were in on 9/11. Fair play if you're going to go down the conspiracy theory route then you might as well go in balls deep. Well, it was all over the news. Makes you think!
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Post by Sir B3na1i on Jul 27, 2023 14:11:01 GMT
Latest from Matt is that the BBC were in on 9/11. Fair play if you're going to go down the conspiracy theory route then you might as well go in balls deep. Well, it was all over the news. Makes you think! HOw DiD tHeY geT ALl thOSe rePoRtas thER SO quIK
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Post by saintsfan73 on Jul 27, 2023 14:19:30 GMT
Related news, Katie Price is now hawking the same obscenely priced CBD 'Gummie Bears' that Matt makes his living off of.
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Post by yateleysaint on Jul 27, 2023 15:06:30 GMT
Related news, Katie Price is now hawking the same obscenely priced CBD 'Gummie Bears' that Matt makes his living off of. What are her views on 9/11?
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Post by threehundred on Jul 27, 2023 15:32:06 GMT
Related news, Katie Price is now hawking the same obscenely priced CBD 'Gummie Bears' that Matt makes his living off of. What are her views on 9/11? She doesn’t understand fractions…
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Post by saintsfan73 on Jul 27, 2023 15:38:29 GMT
What are her views on 9/11? She doesn’t understand fractions… Judging by her chest she's pretty good at inflation though.
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Post by Sir B3na1i on Jul 27, 2023 18:01:43 GMT
Now seen the thing he's referring to. Hahahaaaaaaa does he honestly believe that if there was a huge conspiracy that that video would still be live on YouTube
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Post by saintsfan73 on Sept 7, 2023 15:46:02 GMT
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Post by yateleysaint on Sept 7, 2023 16:31:22 GMT
Is Tim Osman any relation to Russell?
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Post by yateleysaint on Sept 7, 2023 16:41:39 GMT
It’s funny how it’s always the Israelis, isn’t it?
They must be exhausted by all this conspiring that they’re supposed to be doing.
At this rate they’ll have to start working on the Sabbath as there aren’t enough hours in the day to work on conspiracies that can only be uncovered by lone underemployed morons with internet access.
This work conference in Belgium I’m going to next week is for customers of an Israeli company so I’ll make sure I address MLT’s concerns with them.
Tim Osman is the only logical explanation for all this.
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Post by saintsfan73 on Sept 7, 2023 18:27:47 GMT
Is Tim Osman any relation to Russell? Or Mike. I've heard he's often taken people hostage and subjected them to terrible torture. Or his comedy gigs as he likes to call them.
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