Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Starmer is failing and, like Farage, is seeking scapegoats for doing so" video.

  1. There is a different perspective. Democracy can only die not from an external threat, but from internal neglect. And the neglect emerges from a malaise that affects both the top-down technocrats and the bottom-up citizenry. It is at its heart a lack of attention to reality. Perception trumps reality everytime, and reality then kicks us until we pay attention to it. And the fish rots from the head, as they are supposedly the more intelligent and perceptive, right? The truth is that we keep getting bruised because we refuse to look at reality. Instead, we are like Dorian Grey staring into a picture that flatters us, but instead is showing our ugly side, that has been cultivated for years for power and profit. You'd think we'd have figured it out that our head is being filled by nonsense, but because it's flattering nonsense, it sticks like poop to a shoe. It's less about just or unjust desserts. It's just human nature being leveraged for profit. And it's not so much a stretch when you consider Divide and Rule is a political strategem with an ancient colonial pedigree. Our malaise is being encouraged to grow, so that certain people might profit from it. So, scapegoat after scapegoat will be wheeled out to deny and deflect from the reality we should be embracing. Because you can't fix a problem until you accept it exists. And until both those at the top and those at the bottom do that, they will not meet in the middle and start actually tackling the real causes of their worries. In fact, it's not until Reality takes a running kick at our collective bum, hard enough to shock us in to actually looking outside the cave and into the world beyond, will we get over our delusions. It will happen, but if we stopped gamifying everything, and just did what actually needed to be done, we might forestall of what's coming down the line, that we can't defeat or mitigate inside our heads, homes, or bubbles, but only deal with collectively with a shared vision of the future. That's what we lack, because the future we trying to live is unsustainable, but no spoonful of sugar can disguise that. So we throw scapegoats under the bus. All to ignore our complicity in the mess.
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