The Good News

Is that other futures, and present times, are available.
But only if we move away from the circular logic
of making dystopias for others that we then
get thoroughly caught up in, ourselves.  

Marxism Today

There is a lot of sadness
that I can't do anything about.

If I focus on it too much
then I carry the feelings
that I know do me no good
and do not change the world.

My respite is remember Karl Marx
'History happens first as tragedy
then it repeats itself as farce',

If I look back to the first times
of a particular event they become the original,
but by now well worn, tragedy.
When it is repeated become farce.

Whatever the bathos of an event,
with how the farce repeats itself
this proves that the worst that can happen
is that we are the butt of a cosmic joke.

Survive that and we can survive anything.

The Old Faux Stoicism Problem

And the problem is never just that men limit themselves
to an emotional range of faux stoicism and anger.
It is that they expect everyone who is not alpha male,
and who is by circumstance pushed into depending on
these so called alpha males, into thinking that behaviour
based on this narrow and distant emotional range 
is how all world leadership is meant to work. 

The House I would Like To Live In

The cloud storage would be literal, rather than digital.
I would live much more lightly, and the birds
could come and go through the place.

The biggest downside would be
that I would have no escape
from my immediate awareness
of the pollution of the planet.

The Unassailable Argument

Irony is impossible to openly disagree with.

Either the ironist never says what they mean,
or says that they always meant something else
or else the ironist simply wants to say nothing,
for fear of talking too much about themselves.

A thorough ironist closes down the space around them.

  

How Wrong Was George Orwell?

The vision of the future
was not going to be
'to imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever'.

The vision of the future
was going to be the filmed asphyxiation
when the policeman put his full weight
behind his knee on the neck of his victim.

That would be the final confirmation
of the human death, from within.

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Before there were armies
there were hunting parties
and nature was their prey.
The detachment of the hunter
from what they preyed upon
was now 'the new natural'.

The evolution from hunting to militarism
is merely to change the target;
the advantage will be for the men
who's army wore the biggest boots.
That is the root of the emotive detachment
of the military-industrial complex.

The bigger Big Brother grows
the less he knows
how big he is
or what he is doing.

Picture Set Of The Month - July

Devised by Fraser Muggeridge and Jeremy Deller,

This simply designed limited edition poster ran to 1500 copies. 

It soon sold out and raised funds for the support of refugees 
and asylum seekers who were resisting being made homelessness in the UK.

Thank God for a message that does as good as it says.