Pragmatic adherence to scruples
- 2 days ago
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I have no moral scruples that would stop me from asset stripping 19th century philosophies that have both accelerated or retarded us from taking away what I think is relevant to me then, now and in the future. It is not simply a utilitarian perspective because I have no interest in joining or belonging to an ideological construct from between the eras of Jane Austin and Charles Dickens. Furthermore, I won't take any lectures from relativists and dogmatics but prefer to be adaptable. Indeed, isn't it just typical that it turns out that today we have multi or dual hybrids that flirt or destroy each other clambering on high horses and sending humankind into agony and desperation, whilst their leaders have prepared for 21st century mutual guerrilla warfare after their civilians remain unprotected from the blight of any war! They used to call it the butterfly concept of something minor happening on the other side of the world that would impact all of us on a macro level.!?! Military campaigns are brutal and fierce, and just like politics and Art, are far from not ending up in severe collateral damage however hard and sophisticated weaponry that is deployed to surgically strike its original target!!?? Art and Painting are today a surreal montage of multi demographics and narratives that a pragmatic approach must allow for the psychological concept of visualisation in order to actually see by attempting to foresee outcomes and image making - this is a way that Painters can predict rather than be cynical by controlling outcomes of image making. So, for Painters an element of preparation is inevitable knowing that it is likely that plans change and painters will go off on a tangent! But it is a trial to assemble a jigsaw but know that you will veer off elsewhere - it is a rational process that may still deviate even into more abstract instantaneous ‘natural selection' by default, as well as having to balance dominant brush strokes and use of a colour spectrum. But doesn't this visual breakthrough indicate a more transactional process involving appropriation and misappropriation almost as satirical, ironic or surreal montage as is often, but not always discernible from the absurd! So perhaps there is a rational that is hegemonic in its hybrid philosophical outlying!?!!
Perhaps the pendulum swing is indeed further complicated by a seesaw blind siding that shoves us off our path and induces not just a premature inducement of the global economic cycle.... that doesn't need a superior 'superman' to disrupt the eternal return or a blind leap of faith (although I am a practicing Catholic so faith is pretty much part of that) or a eternal return, or a deconstruction of the 'Superman's' ego ad absurdum, or a nihilistic narcissism of overwhelming individualism for the few or for all ( which would be either unworkable or insulting to the more contributory individuals who may feel either overstretched or taken for granted.)
Moreover, a Proletarian Revolution has only provided a permanent dictatorship of the proletariat that has denied the withering away of the state and the concept of Revolution is now over, but the struggle is now a cultural struggle (not a class struggle) which takes the form of a struggle on a canvas which is episodically modernist in a 21st century of hegemonic oligarchies! And 'charismatic warfare'! Notwithstanding 20th century Soviet failures or back tracking on Communist ideology, there is no way that any popular revolution could out manoeuvre the sort of technology available to the world today - they will know what happens before it becomes fact!! Power does not sit with the populace but with technology that is eye droppingly powerful! Moreover, every seat of power plans for not just war games with its friends, but for every scenario in civilian life too!! For example, Iran has lost the military war with Israel and the USA but has prepared to guerrilla the crap out of any scenario including bringing the war to its neighbours, and to impact on global choking of the Hormuz Straits to destabilize global oil and gas prices!!?? War leads to technological upgrades too and attracts the inventor and the entrepreneur also who will use an outbreak of hostilities to advance their own AI version s of drones etc!! As for the Velvet Revolution in 1989, 90,91... it was allowed to happen so that the spy network from all of the Eastern bloc could infiltrate the West!! In other words, only right-wing or doubling down regimes win a popular revolt, and never a contemporary state!! As the ex-British spy David Shayler said back in 1990, MI5 have control of all the hard leftist organisations in Britain by operatives or by bungs or blackmail.... how’s your luck!!?? Or are you going to claim those who grasp how power holds on to power, even hegemonically (if you are a fan of a Marxist 'revisionist back in the 1920s in a jail that Mussolini put him in ) are still 'sell-outs' when 'in your face moderation' not liberalist or extremist fantasy by a Molotov cocktail of cynicism and betrayal are a little too adversarial and litigious for your need for action and demonstrative transformation... what?.. hasn't been tried???? Really? The 1917 October Revolution happened by the intervention of the German foreign minister, who paid for Lenin and the others to take a direct train to Russia and bankrolled that Revolution to end Germany's military efforts on an Eastern front, and not out of Marxist 'scientific dialectical materialism'! The only Communist power left is China, and it has become a 'Capitalist and Communist' country, under the euphemism of '2 systems!!??!! It is now experiencing dependency on all fossil fuels and is desperately trying to convert to non-fossil fuel to catch-up and also not be susceptible to global prices of fuel!! It is also experiencing Capitalist growing pains in that its population wants to save and not invest in real estate! That in its own way is China's Capitalism in crisis and not just undiluted orthodox Communism in crisis!? Perhaps only management in China, the bourgeoisie, may have to prop both to square the circle......? But do we live in a post-Marxist age? Or do we live in a hybrid multi demographic post orthodox wide spectrum of centralised authoritarian rule that could inform us of what we have in common beyond Beijing? Welcome to hegemonically well-hidden global oligarchy where strong leadership is built upon the foundations of highly connected AI influencers who back-channel their true mutually well-disposed collegiate principles whilst publicly but ostensibly stabbing each other in the back, using a new format of ideology as not one of propaganda or belief system but of one of mutually recognised connivance of deceit - new rules rule, if you have the stomach for it
Now what does that mean to most Britons? Have they any time to contemplate the nuances of ideology or geopolitics? Most people in the UK are worried about the cost of living crisis, especially the disabled, the elderly, parents with children of special needs and single parent mothers, working people, the army of carers and the dwindling finances of the middle classes about to lose their homes etc People are scrambling to both feed their family or themselves, or heat their homes? Ironically these are the new entrepreneurs battling to balance their budget, having to make sacrifices.....aren't these families having to run their own experiences like a business having to be ruthless over profit and loss...and they may still be behind on rent etc in spite of having to work 2 jobs???!!! Perhaps if they had been employed in the City before the credit crunch, the bankers would have never hit the UK so hard?!!!!
So, what to do?? ..Never declare war against the business community nut always be brave enough to plan how to make a windfall tax work in the business communities favour(like Gordon Browns economy as Chancellor)., The Greens may always be valuable to confront issues but it is only the Labour government of today (perhaps) that can pass the test of true honourable moral authority : a Labour government could sacrifice its electoral popularity to provide targeted protection for those who can't protect themselves from the cost of living crisis -the City, Westminster as well as the tax-payer will be pissed off to attempt to gas light your potential (in this theoretical scenario) mixture of what could be seen as both indulgent altruism and yet cynicism. But you would have passed that test of having moral authority!!
I believe in the fact of inequality and ('there will always be the poor' as Jesus said) -there is no permanent enduring state of equality!! So how do people pay money, in effect, to distort and add to the pain of those who struggle and suffer? Is this what people pay their taxes for? Is it therefore taxation for misrepresentation or under representation? Or can we see a more transactional format to embark on a windfall tax on the powerful and rich? Well once levied, it means they've done their bit! So, leave business to recover, and to be left alone. Indeed, this would be their covenant fulfilled, and they will have done their duty! Life ain't smooth, and we don't always like policies or ideological convictions, but there will always be the deal to be made, and surely no government should lose an election just because they may appear to truly serve a moral compass......? Or would their opponents think that 'boy-scouts had gone too soft’ and therefore should not be allowed access to 10 Downing street?





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