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@rebelraccoon9018 He says that what he's discovering through his study and the math of consciousness is that consciousness is what comprises everything (though we don't know where, when, why, how it is - space and the universe seem to be a very elaborate stage set, rather like a video game).
Pieces of this consciousness break off to animate, inhabit, inspire, operate human bodies (and presumably every creature). That is every living thing is a part of The Consciousness temporarily playing a role. When our avatar bodies die, our consciousness doesn't die, it returns to the The Consciousness.
Of course, in principle this is what many sages and philosophers have posited for millennia. Dr Hoffman believes he's proving it through the work he and his team are doing.
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@tonycatman I agree that amongst men's primary 'purposes' is to protect women, children and those more vulnerable. I was brought up by a man who was a perfect example of a protector and provider - he was magnificent in his kind and caring maleness without compromising a scrap of his masculinity. I also have male relatives who were the same. But, Tony, you're absolutely completely wrong about women's inability to understand boys' fighting. Indeed, one of my sons appreciates the fighting with his brother because he says it made him able to be a better, more effective police officer. (Police being, along with the military, the epitome of controlled male power). I did not stop their fighting. Because boys. As a mum it was totally clear to me that boys NEED an education and upbringing that helps them to be good men, proud to be men and to be able use their power in good, constructive ways. For the most part, our schooling does not enable boys to be boys, that is, men-in-training. I can't count the innumerable times I was at their schools standing up for their needs to be boys and do boy things that stretched their physical abilities, physical problem-solving abilities, stretch their courage and needs for adventure and their need to conquer and succeed through pitting themselves against others and the elements. I was the mum from hell as far as their teachers were concerned always pushing to stop their mostly lefty women teachers from treating boys like girls expecting them to be compliant and demure. I made sure that they had loads of organised boy/man-training activities outside school. I could write a book about all this, even years later, I am so annoyed at their schools.And even though they have indeed become MEN, leaders in their fields (whilst many of the boys of parents who went along with the feminisation schooling have sons who became drug abusers, got into trouble just for the fun of it in some sort of misplaced man-training they created for themselves, now in 3rd rate jobs well beneath their potentials....). No Tony, please don't disrespect what many mothers actually do to bring up MEN - but please feel free to castigate leftist, feminist social engineering which has been going on for decades now.
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Thank you so much for sharing your horrendous experience. What a very painful lesson to learn and at such a young age. I'm glad that you recovered and made those resolutions to powerfully defend yourself.
As I look back, it seems to me that bullying, usually accompanied by false accusations, fundamentally infests the whole of our culture, in every sphere, high to low. I've certainly experienced it all. I avoid most people now precisely because of this hidden-in-plain-sight bullying that our society refuses to get to grips with and eradicate. Currently though, I'm helping to support a man whose crazy and probably narcissist ex-gf has accused him of 'coercive behaviour' and worse. This is also horrendous. The Court system supports women against men by default, IMO. My friend and his new wife have had their lives all but destroyed - and it hasn't even come to trial yet (mainly because his barrister had family issues and the new barrister doesn't seem to be too hot either!). The ex-gf has already found many ways to use the legal system, unsuccessfully, to harass and abuse him. Speaking as a woman, none of this is good justice.
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@TheRogey1 Thoroughly agree with you, Roger. I'd venture further: the CofE has most likely done more to undermine Christianity in the UK than even rabid secularists. Always bending and bowing to popularist trends and fads and keeping in with the powerful, thus reducing timeless Christian teachings to obstructive diktats that must be massaged, overcome, ignored etc. But, of course, the Anglican church in the UK is simply following the example of its founders. It seems to me that people don't look for these shifting values in a religion, they look for timeless, transcendent virtues...things that are sacred, immutable, dependable. The wise man builds his house upon the rock...!
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She's remembered with much affection by many all over the world. Her death was a tragedy. But really, we've continued with our lives and watched new lives unfold...Diana will never, ever be forgotten, just as Edward I's chere reine, Boudicca, Flora MacDonald, Joan of Arc, Harriet Tubman, QEI, QVictoria, the superlative and incomparable QEII and a huge number of other outstanding women throughout history will always be remembered. I wouldn't say that Diana is the people's queen nowadays though.
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@telephassarose3501 Quite. I have to hope that the original concept was good and beautiful. Though the execution was utterly abominable. IMHO, it's not about romanticising Diana but simply about presenting her as she actually was. Queen Victoria's statues, without variance as far as I'm aware, look just like her photos. How did the Victorian sculptors manage that? And, as you say, how did this present sculptor, with myriad forms of technology available to him, go so badly wrong?
I can think of three deliberate reasons:
1. The RF didn't want such a beautiful, alluring statue that would become a Diana shrine, which I think is still a possibility, given her enduring popularity.
2. Diana's sons, remembering her with childish memories only saw Diana as 'mumsie' and not the extraordinarily attractive, feminine, elegant and captivating woman that she was. Thus, they approved all the sculptor's drawings and photos as he progressed his work, and perhaps made suggestions for tweaks to make it more mumsie according to their memories of her.
3. The sculptor is simply not into women. His male forms are striking and beautiful. Maybe he's gay and Diana's beauty and allure simply didn't touch him - this is, after all, a depiction of her that reduces her to that of an almost comedic weekend M>F crossdresser with bad wigs and a penchant for Primark end of line bargains. Perhaps he's had more practice at creating male art forms. Perhaps he's not all that good at sculpture.And perhaps those who were in charge of selecting sculptors deliberately bore all this in mind.
Whatever, this piece is a total travesty and nothing like it could very easily have been if done by a sympathetic sculptor. (What also bothers me is all the many people trying to turn themselves inside out and upside down, trying to wipe the evidence of their own eyes and cognition, to find something good, something of Diana in this leaden scowling, lumpen hausfrau.)
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I completely agree too. A tree is known by the fruit it bears. What has 'wokeness' grown? To me, it all looks like a mess of cancelling, humiliating and crushing people who don't agree, violence, riots, thoughtlessly smashing things up, overwrought emotionalism and sensationalism, absence of logic and respectful dialogue....it's faux individualism taken to the extremes and encouraged by those who puppet their programmed foot soldiers. Show me the soup kitchens, the creches, the homes for homeless people, the money they've raised and donated to projects to directly help disadvantaged people, show me the good of 93 different sexualities, the knee-bowing to criminals and overwrought mobs, the dictatorial imposition of redefinitions and the prohibition of a whole range of adequate words...where is the love? And let's emphasise: in the whole history of the world, no such totalitarian counter-culture movement/revolution has ever ended well.
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A 4th g-grandfather of mine was a teacher in the Far North of Scotland. In the early 1800s, he taught three foreign languages, English, Latin, Greek, the Classics, and the whole curriculum of maths, sciences, literature, history, geography, scripture etc. In a two roomed schoolhouse, in one of the most remote areas in the British Isles. To tenant crofters' children from age 5 to, if they were very lucky, 14-15. It enabled his pupils and his children to rise out of poverty and achieve amongst national and international society. Some of his descendants reached headteacher status in Scotland and much further afield. One of my children is the 8th in an unbroken line of teachers. Underlining Marie Kawthar Daoud's contention that a deeper knowledge of what there is to learn profoundly empowers and enables people, and makes them world citizens.
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I'm quite disgusted with this lady's perspective. I wonder if she knows that a majority of people who are sexually abused and/or exploited just don't go to the police anymore. Because the police are often dismissive.
Secondly, the victim is now aged 20yo. The police would have told her that her now adult child has to make a police report themselves. Perhaps she knew that already.
Thirdly, the mother has handed over a file of material evidence to, presumably, a responsible, competent person at the BBC to aid their investigation (includes bank statements showing payment details it's reported). Whereupon the BBC, trying to catch up, promptly suspended the staff member.
The BBC could have averted all this media hue and cry if they'd actually listened to her, taken her seriously from the start. Instead, in the Sun, the mother reports that whoever she spoke with at the BBC gave her a bogus phone number for the 'security' person/dept. This is exactly the sort of runaround that many victims of these types of crime receive from whoever they try to report wrongdoing to these days.
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@tonycatman Thanks for your response and acknowledgment. I find this subject of great interest - because my whole, visceral purpose was to grow happy, healthy men (and a daughter but girls are a completely different species!!). And on an intellectual level, I have long been very concerned about what Western culture and its social engineering is doing to men. One of my sons called me just after his first child was born and told me, choking back a tear, that when he first held his minute-old baby he was instantaneously totally overcome, flooded by a feeling of ferocious k!ller-protection as he tenderly spoke to her for the first time . That's a MAN. He's still the same. I've done my job, somehow I managed to press the right buttons to get them on the right track!. My biological purpose fulfilled.
And,you gave me pause for thought...you may be right, a lot of their classmates' had mothers and fathers who seemed to go along with the programme (amongst their friends were boys like the budding ballerina, a nascent actor who did make it to stage and screen, several who became artists, countless web designers and sysadmins...Meanwhile, my sons are in action careers which are the stuff of the movies/tv series that the IT guys watch...).
Point I'd like to make is that I don't think we should blame mothers alone for allowing their boys' healthy masculinity to be eroded. The social engineering power behind this programme is far too great for most parents to counter.
I'll recount the story behind a then well-known study by 'reputable experts'which concluded that children aren't affected by single-parenting, in fact they do as well as children in 2 parent families. This study was much quoted, gvt policies were founded on it etc.Years later it turned out that the male experts had skewed the data to give positive conclusions because they had separated from their wives/children and were feeling deeply guilty and suffering terrible angst about what they'd done to their children . I don't trust any academic study unless the results are copiously internationally and independently replicated.
Yes, I'm not moved either by the sort of tears you describe and the sort of personalities that can manipulate people that way. To my mind, to get out of the mess we're in, we need MEN! Of the courageous action type we're talking about.
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Yes, I found the first half of this discussion odd and felt uncomfortable - because it was uncomfortable for both participants. I've appreciated Peterson and his wisdom for more than a few years now, admire his courage in the face of injustice and dire illnesses, watched countless of his videos, read his books, bought many copies of them for family and friends. But I've long had difficulty with some of his understanding of women. for a long while I've meant to write him about particular misconceptions he's voiced (interestingly, variations of these misconceptions are also voiced by upset and angry men throughout these comments. Could this gulf in understanding be a new avenue of study for him? ) This interview rather highlighted some of those sticking points for me. Granted he found himself in Dr Psychologist mode quite quickly and had to manage the discussion out of therapeutic mode back onto a more intellectual track. But still, it demonstrated why, as a woman, I wouldn't seek out Dr Peterson if I wanted help with the impact of crimes and and injustices that girls and women experience frequently as a result of their sex. So, like you, Elizabeth, I found this interview valuable and revelatory.
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@BunnyAssassin Your advice brought tears to my eyes, Jon - Enrique's post was tough to read but also hopeful in that he's definitely on the right track. Your advice, Jon, is beautiful coming from a young man who's also on the right track and who has well-founded hope. You both inspire me. As a mother and grandmother, I wholly agree with you both and thank you. This is what I taught my children: Be the person you can rely upon...be that respectable, intelligent, honest, kind, helpful person who gets things done, and takes responsibility for their own lives and their family's lives, be a thoughtful man, think things through - and, with humility, believe in yourself always. Because in the real world this person is the real hero.
I can truthfully say it worked for my children. Good luck and good health to you both.
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I entirely agree. I went to a grammar school. Except for picking up a smattering of useful Latin and enjoying a great music teacher who kindled my love of classical music, It didn't benefit me at all. All my substantive learning was had at private schools from age 3 and then at university.
The reason that grammar schooling failed me and likely a huge cohort of pupils for several years? Before I went to grammar school, the gvt had a year or so previously declared the demise of such 'elitism'. Looking back, my grammar school at least was in disarray and trying to work out its new identity, its new curricula to meet the new one-size-fits-all diktats, amidst a slump in staff morale and alacrity. I imagine that this 'anti-elitist' edict had the same effect on state grammar schools all over the country.
With that experience and having taught age16+ students at college (young people who'd been brutalised and diminished by their comprehensive experience - their fear and loathing of education and teachers was palpable and I recall it very clearly even now), I made sure to send my own children to public schools where they each flourished. (Thankfully, they all earned scholarships!) I became a comprehensive school governor in my own little bid to do what I could to raise horizons and standards. Of course, it was a forlorn project: the rot was well-entrenched by then, the 2000-odd pupils were largely commodities being processed through the machine . And that school was officially classed as a 'good' comprehensive. Come hell or high water, my grandchildren will be going to public schools, even if I have to sell everything I own.
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Born and bred Brit here who used to be proud of our nations and always used to be 100% invested in the UK. For the last decade or so, I've been 100% certain that the UK is not 'invested' or interested in me or any individual, except in so far as it must by law fulfil some very minimal duties towards individuals. When push comes to shove, one discovers that most of our public services, legislators and public servants are not actually legally bound to do anything much in practice for individuals. All statutory public services have so many largely covert 'get out' clauses that absolve them of responsibilities.
Mostly what we're left with is a sort of feel-good generic concept of 'providing services for the people' (but not really for individuals).
So, I'm certainly in that 73% majority and really don't relate to the UK as 'my country' anymore. Especially since we're forced (too often by law) not to be proud of our United Kingdom and our specific nations, it's become something that's very difficult to identify with. It's far more like a massive, faceless corporation that uses people for its own ends/shareholder profits and then spits us out. (Note well, this isn't a hidden tirade about immigrants even - they're equally subject to the de-humanisation and being valued only for their utility as 'resource units'.)
Yes, GBNews would do well to research this phenomenon in depth, as should Dr Luntz. Because this 'de-national priding' and escalating dehumanisation is very fertile ground for all the tribal divisions that we now see growing exponentially. I note that de-nationalisation and the introduction of regionalism, alongside the free movement of labour (originally it was 'labour' and cosmetically changed to 'people'), was a deliberate project of the EU - with, as we see now, quite horrid and probably unintended consequences.
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@floriangeyer1 I fear you may be right, Simon. OTOH, such movements have always come and gone. The 60s were riven with endless protests, destruction of traditional values and mores, endless threats of revolution and anarchy, street wars against oppression and supporting all sorts of hallucinogenic substances, sexual, women's and black liberation and so on. It was a very, very scary time.
Then the (usually middle class) kids found that they didn't have so much energy for all the angry complaining and marching about angrily. They grew up. Those who didn't manage that transition to maturity were to be found in academia, still dreaming of their glory days and still pushing this equally angry, disruptive neo-marxist script. They're on their way out, and today's angry young men will also grow up. Meanwhile, the rest of us are quietly but very firmly wishing that they'd all Foucault off asap before they get their Saussures stuffed right up their Derridas.
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@vonryansexpress What a well put overview and counterpoints, thank you.Good point about BI v AI . Though, we still have the glorious example of the Soviet Union's demise: the grand central soviet had cast iron control throughout soviet-world of all media internally and foreign imports, the schools, universities, every nanometer of life was locked down by soviet permit, decree and diktat. The masses had very little inkling of what the rest of the world was like and the freedoms many enjoyed. Yet still, those ordinary people in the soviet hegemony managed, with alacrity, to provide grist to the mill of change. The first generation of young soviets was just as zealous and fervently committed to the vision of communism as today's wokeists are to their fantasy world of safe spaces everywhere, poly-gender loos on every corner, free almond milk and vegan cookies for all members, Victims' Leagues, ad nauseum - and they loathe white people with the same viciousness as the young soviets despised Westerners! Perhaps we might give ordinary humans a bit more credit, it's my guess that they'll surprise us yet...
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91>>>The West failed, totally blew it. It seemed to me that there was no one at the helm of FSU policy at the FO/UK. There were some small, genuine and successful attempts at nurturing democracy and the best of Western standards of governance and lifestyle for all, not just the wannabe oligarchs. But, for the most part, the FO and DfID didn't seem to be fully engaged. A modest KnowHow programme , to be sure, but no support, no co-ordination, no follow up. It was all quite bizarre in the face of what was obviously a great opportunity, not for 'colonialism' but for a genuine hand of sincere friendship. Instead, the Russians got the McDonalds end of the scale....It was, and still is, very sad.
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@OkTxSheepLady Ah, OK, thank you for your explanation. We, like most Europeans, have a very different perspective. Everyone here pays into a gvt administered National Insurance scheme (since 1947) and via taxation (everyone - e.g. part of the tax on the sweeties and toys that children buy from their pocket money goes towards the welfare system too). It could have been set up as a private while-nation health and social security insurance scheme but wasn't - it was introduced by a Labour gvt. In short, think of it as an insurance policy - when someone gets ill and/or loses their job they apply to the insurance company which everyone else has a policy with and the company pays for healthcare and/or your basic living costs when you've fulfilled all the strict rules for payout. Most welfare systems work exactly like this. Most people are glad that they DON'T have to claim. Most people are pleased that the insurance is there for all even though others might get more out of it. National Insurance/taxes are also enforced with criminal penalties - we all pay into it and it's distributed according to qualified need - but no one looks at that as 'secondhand stealing'. The basic principle is for the basic communal good. I don't want hordes of homeless people sleeping on my property or along the High Street, or burgling my home. I don't want people to lose their homes because they had to pay for cancer/stroke/heart/accident injuries. Nor do I want people going to work with transmissible diseases to infect us with because they can't afford to stay off work and get treatment.
Looking at it another way, what do you think about some of your taxes paying for jails and the criminal justice system, or for state education, for the FBI, for your national government etc? Also, I assume you're aware of LBJ's great wheeze to pull in more Democrat votes by instituting a massive nationwide welfare scheme which made it easier to claim benefits than working, which undermining not only the family unit amongst poor people but also skewed their education and the job market so badly that it's never recovered? Our welfare system isn't like that. I think you're right to be upset with yours in the US, but not at individuals - your gvt actively caused this dire state of affairs, not individuals who have been and still are conditioned to be co-dependent. with gvt.
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And Harriet Tubman, Thomas Sowell, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, Sojourner Truth, Mae Jamison, Marcus Rashford, MBE, Hon. PhD. , Lady Doreen Lawrence, Sir Mark Trevor Phillips, OBE, Tina Turner....just to mention a handful of the many black achievers who each made decisions to do the right thing against high odds.
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@pt17171 I'm no apologist for Kisin but that's not how I read his analysis. It's absolutely the case that a certain faction under the umbrella of 'wokeism', have been inflicting themselves on the general populace over too many years now. Media pundits spend vast swathes of airtime, column inches on pandering to this self-important, self-aggrandising faction. Meanwhile, in the UK, 1 in 3 children are now living in families at the poverty level. 1 in 4 children is abused. Millions of families have to resort to foodbanks. There are millions of vulnerable people in the UK (young, old, disabled, veterans etc) who are in serious need of support, medical and social care because of decreasing funding. Yet where is the media's attention...? Not on these real issues and improving the lives of many.
Ditto the UK's attention to overseas developments. Have you seen the NATO HR diversity video that's going the rounds? 2 mins of warm fuzzies. It looks like NATO has transformed itself into a cosy, cuddly global social services outfit. The West has been so wrapped up in idiot minutiae raised by people who do have the health, strength and money to make loud and long complaints that it's failed to read what's been going on in the rest of the world's room. Nero Antoinette comes to mind.
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IMHO, he reached the height of his competence several years back. Domestically it's been all downhill since then and he's resorted to what incompetent leaders do: he's become more dictatorial at home and created external enemies to wage war on...
(Remember his background - KGB apparatchik, mired in mediaeval dreams of autocratic glory, knows how to surveille real and imagined enemies, intimidate and eliminate real and possible threats, bribe and acquire much money.
None of those attributes is useful for building a sustainable, outward looking, partnership-orientated, business-orientated, growth economy that benefits the majority of citizens. Essentially, he reigns a vast land full of resources and doesn't know how to manage them productively for the benefit of all.)
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@labella42071 Thank you Lady Labella, I take my hat off to you! Not because you agree with me, but because you can not only do the hard work of thinking through difficult questions and enable yourself to move forward, but you also have the good grace and dignity of telling me/us about how, with a great deal of struggle, you've realised that perhaps your previous position was not the most helpful to you and your children.
I'm humbled by your straightforward honesty as well as your hard, probably painful work. You know, with your character, you cannot fail to do right by your children! They are very fortunate to have such an intelligent, thoughtful and caring mother.
It sounds like you've fought against internalised oppression (which is essentially what the accusation of 'white privilege' is designed to do to us) and come through to a more accurate, nuanced truth. I can only think that you're teaching your children not to accept the awful narrative that black people are fed which keeps them down (see, for example, Candace Owen's brilliant book Blackout, How Black America Can Make its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation).I think you'll teach your children to be proud of coming from not one but two wonderful heritages and strengthened by the best of each of these cultures, rather than pulled down by either as this currently hateful and destructive woke/BLM movement would like. God bless you and your children.
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@Isnt-it-Lovely I've read all your posts here, Deborah. It can be very galling to see other people getting things that you think they didn't earn or don't deserve. How we decide what people deserve is a good question. How do we decide that it's a good thing for Bezos, Branson, Musk, Gates, Buffet, Soros et al deserve to rake in hundreds of £billions every year whilst they avoid paying taxes and whilst many or most of their workers are on minimum wage? Honestly, Deborah, these are the real scammers. They take infinitely more from the ordinary taxpayer (in avoiding taxes and in the overpriced goods and services they sell us) than any disabled people ever could. These £multi-billionaire scammers are really the people you should be mad at.
Then you have to factor in that government economists actually PLAN to have a certain quota off work on one sort of benefit or another. Too many workers in the system actually reduce wages - and we have too many low qualified workers due to successive governments imposing the wrong highly ideological policies. The government is already subsidising huge corporations to take on these people as workers. If they took on even more workers, wages would be even lower.
People aren't overtly encouraged to take up benefits but they are expected and the money is already set aside for them. The reality is that there are not enough of the right sort of jobs in various areas at various times. And there will be fewer of many more sorts of jobs as time goes by, so that there will be increasing numbers of people like you and me on benefits - or Universal Basic Income....how will you feel about that?
It is actually very difficult to get disability benefits. Have you actually looked into it? 80% of all claims are initially denied. When those claimants dispute that and take the benefits dept to tribunal 80% of their claims are allowed . It's a game.
Then people on disability benefits are indeed allowed to do some work if they can, it used to be called 'therapeutic earnings' (don't know what the terminology is now) in recognition that in certain cases work is helpful to recovery or to mental health.
I understand your anger. But it's not well-placed. It's the system: the £multi-billionaires/global corporations call the shots these days. Governments try and iron out the employment/unemployment problems on the ground, as it were, and accordingly adjust the numbers in the workforce with various things like benefits, tax incentives, disability benefits. Some of us worker bees are lucky and we get to have jobs, others of us are not so lucky.
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@paul756uk2 Oh, what a great dream! I've been thinking lately that TPTB have made an almighty mess since, say, the late 1990s. I mean a truly monumental mother of all debacles behind the scenes. Compounded by 9/11, 2008, and then covid, it's just got worse and worse. What better than such as the lunacy of wokeism to distract and engage people and erase those who speak against this destructive ideology? We can clearly see the calibre of our global leaders - how on earth can we have hope that we're going to thrive again as a nation, as a species? Is this why they're planning to impose a 'Great Reset'? To try and undo the mess they've made? That could well return us to the worst of bygone eras! (Not to mention the erasure of democracy...) At the beginning of covid, people who thought that it was an escaped lab bug were called 'conspiracy theorists' and even those with expert knowledge were shouted down. Now, we learn that, yes, it was almost certainly a lab-created bug. It's time that somehow we stop all these machinations and thoughtfully engage in returning to a simpler, more honest life - as a people together, not as polarised pawns of all the out of control engineering, illicit partying, louche and/or senile leaders, overweening $multibillionaires etc! IMHO. So yes, bring on your better vision of life!!
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It seems to me that their 'reason' is that those descended from 'non-slave' families all benefited more through the years from the profits of slavery. Well, dig back that far in the family history of the majority of the non-slave family people and you'll find indentured servants, subsistence labourers tied to lords of the manor, indentured apprenticeships, child and female labourers literally locked up each night after long days of work, even full-on slavery in some parts of the British Isles:parts of Ireland and Scotland where people were owned and starved. We don't teach this in schools, we don't talk about how our ancestors were abused.I'm fine with reparations - as long as they include the many millions of us white people, descended from people who were driven at the point of a musket out of their hovels to make way for sheep, or were starved and beaten out of their homes etc by the soldiers of the elites and frogmarched onto ships removing them, like live cargo, to anywhere else that would have them with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.
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@Andy Jarman A few thoughts, if I may. Generally, loathing for another tribe becomes ossified when at a distance. Up close it becomes diluted by reality, familiarity, it's less likely to become part of the loather's self-identity.
Having said that, it's not hundreds and hundreds of years since atrocities and rank, inhumane discrimination have been committed against the smaller UK nations. It's just over a hundred years since the Irish Easter Rising and the attendant atrocities committed by those acting for the British government - and so it continued throughout the 20th century in some form or other. The Welsh have been variously colonised then dropped on from a great height throughout latter day history depending on the nation's utility in Westminster's economic schemes - Thatcher's treatment of miners and their families was nothing short of atrocious. Similarly, Scotland's been a bag of goodies for the English elites to dip into and then cast aside (I would be writing this from the Highlands and not England if Scotland had been on a par with England and not been treated as an afterthought, starved of the support and services enjoyed by the English. My great-grandparents' village did not have electricity until the late 1960s ).
Note that throughout I attribute these abuses entirely to Westminster and English elites. IMHO, successive UK governments have not served the Union well. For hundreds of years, they and not the English people have abused the smaller constituent nations of the UK in just the same way as they've latterly covertly trashed 'Britishness' in their avaricious gallop towards Europe and globalism (as well as, against the sensible qualms of ordinary citizens, having imported - yes, as commodities - millions of immigrants, cheap, tax-paying labour to keep British wages down).
Sadly, loathing for 'the English' is very misplaced. 'The English', the ordinary people, have certainly been subject to Westminster's whims and inhumanities too! An initial remedy might begin with a genuinely representative British Parliament for all of Great Britain's constituent nations and governments that are not commandeered by the sons of empire (in this 21st century, how can it possibly be right that most of our current Cabinet members are drawn from public schools and privileged families?? Note that I'm not a socialist! But there is little authentic equality of opportunity and just plain fairness when such Parliaments and Cabinets still hold the reins.)
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I wonder why no one in these comments has picked up on Brendan's point: lockdown only had one aim, to protect the NHS from being overwhelmed by covid cases ? Indeed, that was the first priority in the gvt's 3-point mantra: "Protect the NHS - Stay home - Save lives". (Now it's represented as 'stay home, protect the NHS, save lives'). Cynically, I would say that, if we'd been allowed to live more or less normally, the gvt would never have recovered from an obviously failed NHS, due to years of their swingeing £cuts. Lockdowns IMHO therefore are primarily political decisions, not health protection measures. The NHS simply isn't fit for purpose. This is the huge elephant in the national room that no one is talking about, still less tackling.
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@clemalford9768 As far as I remember the history, before borders were firmed up and Germany was founded as an amalgam of German-speaking peoples, western Ukraine was populated by Poles and those of Germanic culture. I believe Kyev's population historically reflected that. In WW2, that half of Ukraine went to fight with the Nazis, the east fought for the Soviets. Nonetheless, way back when, Ruriki (the first king of the Rus) founded his seat of governance there and was followed by his son, Igor, and Igor's grandsons Yaroplok and Vladirmir (St Vladimir of Kyev who is revered to this day) and his descendants. Ironically, Ruriki is supposed to have come from eastern Sweden. Europe - it's a mishmash!
I remember in the mid-late 90s, the Russians I hung out with up north wanted to know if I knew Margaret Thatcher - they thought she was wonderful!
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If I may say, to me as a Christian, your approach seems to be a bit like being hungry every day and having plenty of money but choosing to eat from McDonalds 3x everyday. Instead of which you could enjoy a massive spectrum of foodstuffs, food shops and cuisines ranging from the cheapest, most pedestrian to those that can only be talked about in hushed, poetic tones... depending on your appetites, needs, curiosity. The discovery and practice of faith is somewhat like that - multi-layered, multifaceted, from the transcendentally sublime to the tediously and incredibly ridiculous and back again.
There's also the crucial failing that all humans suffer: we don't know what we don't know. There's always more to discover...(And PS, I might venture that perhaps your theology teacher is not the best and might be one of those who'd eviscerate and pulp any subject they taught?!)
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@Billmaster115 Thank you for your considered response. I think though that you might be making a number of generalised assumptions.
It's clear to me, as an ordinary private citizen shopper that e.g. UK supermarkets are not a free market. They closely match their prices to the penny and charge as much as they can get away with, they're in lockstep with each other responding to each others' activities rather than whether a customer is willing/unwilling to buy at a more accurately calculated price based on supply and demand. That's not a free market. Similarly, it looks to me that all the supermarkets source branded and own branded products from the same small cadre of manufacturers/suppliers. That's not a free market, that's centralised production with a very few producers and suppliers who are all doing the same price competition thing.
Reading about supermarket suppliers recently I learnt that there are 9 companies in the world that own all the means of groceries production and distribution. Remember a few months back, the US had a baby milk shortage? It turned out that only ONE factory in the whole of the US produced all the brands. The factory had closed down due to hygiene issues. That's not a free market!
The energy market is the same, as you indicate. The same suppliers supply us all.
So, where we did have more of a free market a few decades back, I don't think the same applies now. Straightforward supply and demand involving billions of customers able to adjust pricing and millions of producers and suppliers catering to demand has gone. Indeed, now it is far more like a tightly controlled soviet production and supply chain - only those running the show these days have worked out how to make more profits out of what they do. Mainly by coercing gvts into special deals and favours, thus bending gvts to their will (and negating democracy). See When Corporations Rule the World: David Korten. Instead of a soviet hegemony, we have a capitalist hegemony.
That's not a free market.
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@korycassel5197 You sound angry, Kory. I agree, those things should never have happened to you - they were profoundly invasive and utterly disrespectful. But you extrapolate from those incidents and make many sweeping judgements and connections that are ill-informed and not helpful. Yes, why not blame all women for the treatment you've received from SOME badly behaved, abusive women?! Well, that just keeps you angry. Instead why not learn how to spot badly behaved, abusive women and avoid them? Respect your own needs to avoid people like that. Then you could enjoy being around good women who treat you with respect.
'YOU WOMEN' have never shoved promiscuity down society's throat. If you take time to study, you'll find that both men and women have been manipulated by what was packaged and sold as 'feminism' (why? Follow the money.).
If you study some more, you'll discover that there are very few rules that aren't broken, they're flexible -there are always some sort of costs for rule-breaking though. Mostly, in more intimate situations and relationships between people, rules are called boundaries and expectations. These are all up for negotiation. In my experience, there are few decent women who don't want to talk about these things.
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@radcyrus 1. I did not write that 'the world is in a worse shape than it ever was before'.
YOU wrote that. then you based much of the rest of your response labouring under the assumption that that's what I wrote or what I meant!
Not a great start. But it kind of proves my point about taking a few bits of information and then subconsciously filling in with one's own assumptions!
To verify my claim that 'the world is in a really, really bad way', look at all the many economic performance and projection data out there. Look at inflation per country. Look at the stats for bank failures around the world. Look at stock market trends. Look at unemployment rates and business bankruptcies internationally. Look at the UN data on quality of life and poverty around the world. Check data on current conflict zones.Look at crime statistics. Look at happiness surveys. Look at the real terms decrease in average worker pay since 1974 to now. There are countless varied metrics out there.
2. No, I'm not willing 'to consider that maybe your assumption about what people do is by itself a judgement on your part'. because I don't make this assumption. I know factually that cognitive and neuro science has shown that humans are hard wired to make quick judgements on other people or situations and then fill in their knowledge gaps with their own assumptions. Do a search on cognitive/neuro science of making assumptions and the psychology of making assumptions.Also related is confirmation bias.
3. Bear in mind that we've been talking about 'snap judgements', based on very little knowledge of a person, the first impressions/ in the moment type of judgement .based on little factual and situational information and/or failure to verify facts and reality.
4. I didn't say anything about achieving a balance between judgement and acceptance. I have to say that this flummoxed me for a bit! I've never seen 'judgement' and 'acceptance' posited as opposites before.
The opposite of judgement is reserving judgement (that is, not making a judgement unless or until you have enough information to make a conclusive, accurate judgement). The opposite of acceptance is rejection.
None of us has to judge things or accept things we don't have facts and good reason to be able to do so! There's no law that compels us to do either! But if we want to make a judgement or accept something, it's our own responsibility to ask questions, research, discover the facts and apply rational thought to what you find out. Quite often, I find that there's a lot of wisdom in simply reserving judgement until I have enough reliable information to make a judgement or decision about someone or a situation.
I hope this sounds useful to you. I invited you to do some searches for yourself because why would you trust the data of a stranger on the internet ? And, most importantly, you'll probably learn a lot more from your own discoveries. Thank you for asking questions.
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Yes, but not as many as one might think. If you add parents, grandparents, ggrandparents etc back some 30 or so generations then, on paper, you'd have a mind-boggling 8 billion+ unique ancestors in that 1000yr generation. BUT! There were only 250,000,000 people alive on the entire planet at the time. So the calculation cannot be a simple exponential one (i.e. 2+4+8+16 etc). The answer to the paradox is pedigree collapse. That is, for most of human history people have partnered/married 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc cousins and thus shared most of their ancestors. Our ancestors usually pop up in several places on our individual family trees (I have, e.g. an ancestor from c. 1450 from whom I'm descended in at least 10 lines and counting). Genealogists have posited that, even as late as the 1950s, most Europeans married a 4th or 5th cousin, whether they knew it or not. It can be proven that everyone on the planet is related - we're anything from 1st to 50th cousins, and a majority are closer to royalty than they think.
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And no one need ever criticise me again for declining these jabs. If I , as a lay person, could see this coming, then why didn't our governments, politicians and healthcare practitioners? I wanted to make an informed decision. No one would ever give me any information. Like many people now, after 2 years of lies, spin, 'narratives' agendas and fearmongering from these people, big pharma and their media mouthpieces, I have zero trust in all of them. Big question - what else in medicine are they occluding?? Thank you, Dr John, for all the hard work you do in bringing us honest and reliable information. Perhaps you have a new career as a health ethicist?!
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Having worked in senior roles with, not for, local and central gov, I can tell you for certain from my perspective that it's not the fault of the 'all talk.no action' people. 1. They are educated and trained to fulfil narrow gov/political agendas, they are not trained to be creative and to take initiative, no matter how many great solutions they personally can talk about and would love to carry out.
2. All gov-funded interventions are hedged round with tight legal and political requirements, timetables, tickboxes, notional outcomes that people in remote places have dreamed up to satisfy their political masters' agendas. Most often, these conditions fall way short of what's actually needed and can do more damage than good.
3. People who work for local/central gov are by nature those who need the structure, security and stability (and other things) that working for gov affords them. They're not the most courageous of people, nor are they initiative takers, independent-minded enough, nor are they leaders. No matter how many great solutions they think up, they're quite risk averse and they've fundamentally accepted the quid pro quo of a secure job and commensurate loss of perhaps much of their own agency.
This isn't to denigrate gov workers. We're all different, with different aptitudes and talents.
4. There are very few people in the world like Najah, Erin Pizzey, Harriet Tubman, Oskar Schindler, Elizabeth Blackwell, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Florence Nightingale, Martin Luther King..... our communities and schools should encourage more, but that's not what schools are for.
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@AlexJacksonTempleSounds Indeed, you make my broader point. Though, without going into detail, the changes I was involved in were offering genuine power to people. (There's a whole canon of research and interpretation across the philosophical, psychological, sociological, anthropological, historical spectrums, about why people everywhere generally prefer to stay as silent followers despite the advantages of power).
Again, most people will resist change - whether it's good or bad. Most people take the ultra-conservative, cautious, commonsensical, least life-disrupting route forward. And so that means good news: delusional wokesterism, devoid of reason and commonsense, is doomed to fail.
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@arc5015 Ok, but I've no idea what Bloodborne is. Unfathomable sentience sounds to me rather like
Immortal, invisible, God only wise,
In light inaccessible hid from our eyes,
Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,
Almighty, victorious, Thy great name we praise.
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How does she do it? #1 She and her family have the very best medical care in the world! If they'd had to put up with state-run healthcare they would have had average lifespans. Anyone who says different should perhaps examine their Stockholm syndrome relationship to the NHS, the most sacred cow that Britons are required to worship. The RF is treated far better than any other citizen in every way. . They have never, ever had to deal with the stresses of dreaded bills coming through the door, all the aggro with various services providers (e.g. anyone having to deal with BT or one of the big 6 energy providers about poor service automatically loses 5 years of their expected longevity), neighbours from hell, trying to get supermarket Hunger Games delivery slots during lockdown, worrying about whether their kids' shoes can last another term, trying to get plumbers, roofers, electricians etc to see to emergencies and worrying about paying for the repairs, becoming a victim of crimes which the police don't deal with, and hundreds of other daily and deeply erosive external stressors. I'd swap all that in a trice for a lifetime of camera flashing and chronic intense public scrutiny of my private life. (Note that I'm a Monarchist and have the greatest respect, admiration and fondness for HMTQ. I would never underestimate the role that she has fulfilled in such a perfectly dedicated, exemplary way. )
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@FelipeElLocito You write so eloquently and accurately about HMTQ's extraordinary service to our nation and the Commonwealth. Thank you. I wish I could give you a thumbs up - the one thing that I can't support is your view of constitutional monarchy. I can understand how it seems anachronistic, though it's worked phenomenally well for the UK and many other nations, and clearly still does. For the superb way HMTQ has reigned and built a c. 2.5 billion citizen Commonwealth of Nations founded on mutual support, respect and friendship I would happily give my support for her to be proclaimed 'Elizabeth the Great'.
The mere suggestion of abolishing our Monarchy fills me with horror at the thought of the inevitably ignoble and vulgar activities of all those who would then jostle and spar for the presidential role every 4 or 8 years or whatever. Alongside which, the UK would have to change its constitution almost completely, we'd lose so much for the gain of seeming to be 'up-to-date'. I'm not expecting to change your mind here. But I wanted to add another perspective. Because the types of people who'd be up there badmouthing each other as fellow candidates for UK president would be exactly those you so rightly pillory in your next comment! Yes, this gvt is monstrous and incredibly incompetent, maybe the worst in my lifetime. But BoJo and his similarly hugely privileged cabinet are so entitled, self-righteous and greedy that they would all have the brass neck to stand....and one of these self-serving, duplicitous incompetents would then get elected... We can never allow this to happen. Thus, an apolitical constitutional monarchy which is wealthy enough not to be bothered by the opportunities for yet more wealth and power-gathering is the best compromise IMHO.
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@Terre Schill The NHS's pitch was "Protect the NHS, Stay Home, Save Lives" in that order. Those were the priorities - in that order. In practice, that mantra really wasn't good enough for the majority of Brits in actual practice. Fine words butter no parsnips as my grannie would have said.
They should have been able to manage the situation. They would have been able to manage the situation if:
1) the gvt and NHS had followed the (costly but far less costly than the covid bill taxpayers are facing now) recommendations of the autumn 2016 national major incident drill which found all services under prepared and underfunded. Gvt and NHS shelved the report and recommendations, thus were completely unprepped.
2) Per the Great Barrington recommendations, protected the weak/vulnerable and enabled everyone else to live as normally as possible.
3) they'd had efficient, effective, compassionate management both in the NHS and gvt.
4) they hadn't formally decided that terrifying the public was the best way to control people into 'Protecting the NHS'. The NHS shouldn't have needed protecting. It has been underfunded/misfunded for years; lowest per capita spend in the G7 just above Italy which, not surprisingly, has a similar covid fatality rate to UK's..
5) they hadn't chosen to rely on statistical modellers to formulate their orders to the public. The models were way off.
6) I could list several more faux pas. Including Bojo's egregious failure of leadership. He just didn't take it seriously until he caught it. He only attended 1 of the first 5 national emergency COBRA meetings. By then it was too late.
The concept of nationalised healthcare is excellent. Like you I have international experience, having lived and worked in 1st-3rd world countries. The NHS is on track to be taken over by US healthcare companies. Several are already in here having £huge provision and exploitation contracts as various elements are quietly sold off. Thus, de facto the NHS per se is failing and covertly preparing for privatisation.
With utmost respect, Terre, you weren't here to see and experience the horrors and the horrendous fallout from the mis-management, fear-mongering and censorship about everything. It has become almost 'Pravda' soviet here.
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@alisoncoyne6584 I admire your get-up-and-go! We did living overseas for about 6 years, glad to come back in those days. Your precis of life under Trudeau is horrifying, though I well-believe it (Jordan Peterson has enlightened the rest of the West, much to his cost). why is JT sucking up to a dictatorship that deliberately let loose this pandemic on us? Why are 95% of Western leaders singing the same devil's tune??
I'm beginning to think that this BBB/Great Reset scam was cooked up about a decade ago in the aftermath of the sheer debacle of 2008ff. Now, I surmise that ALL the globe's VVIPs got together and thrashed out another way to a)make more $billions from us peasants ('rent everything, don't own anything'? In other words, steal everything from us that could support us to get a leg up), and b) to keep the growing masses under tighter control. In sum, their global corps and institutions have made a total mess of the world and our economies thus their profits are fast dwindling, now it's time to gouge us some more.
PS - I'd suggest moving back to Scotland, God's Ane Countrie. But the crazy wee Mrs Krankie in charge is also a fully paid up member of the Dictators' Club and making lives horrible there too... <sigh> But that's my point - where on earth isn't infected by this vile anti-democracy, anti-freedom, anti-human cult?
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@forgivethemoniker8178 My goodness, Moniker! There's quite a heap of passive aggressive anger going on in your last two posts to me! 'Sorry, not sorry' ?? This comes across as a high schooler's badinage. Would you ever say that face to face with a disabled patient struggling with injuries, victimisation, secondary and tertiary victimisation...? What strikes me most is that you re-interpret what I've written in responses to you. E.g. to dislike the mass of humanity doesn't mean to lose hope in them, or to make them enemies, as you re-interpreted. Similarly, I acknowledged that I wasn't being asked to justify myself in the first sentence of my second post. Yet you've turned it into a plank in your defence!?
Are your quotation marks around what I described as my life experience an attempt to render that experience less important, less valuable, to demean it?
But at least we've come to the crux of your position, one of your life operating principles:
"I just don't think that losing hope in humanity is an effective strategy for most of us."
Actually, that's all you needed to say in response to my first reply to you. Fine, it's your opinion and how you choose to conduct your life. I would have given you a thumbs up for having a clear modus operandi and gone on my way.
Unfortunately though, you went further, and told me bluntly that my perspective is not justified, that it's wrong. Then, through your re-interpreting, you've confected so much more what? I don't know, what does it feel like to you? Annoyance? Anger? Disdain?
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My MP came round this morning. He's a solid Tory and a sensible, low-ego, get on with the constituency job representative. He voted Brexit explicitly because that's what our constituency voted. He is one of the MPs who, early on in Bojo's cavalcade of deceits, stood up in the House and asked him to step down. I would have backed him for PM if he'd chosen to run. He'd be a very steady hand at the helm and a clear-headed, calm leader.
Anyway, he came round with his team to say that he's supporting Rishi about which I had quite a bit to say. I'm not entirely comfortable with Rishi at No10 but if my MP's in the mix it could be ok. Very assiduously, he asked us to fill in a questionnaire about our voting views, our opinion of the biggest issues facing the country, issues facing the constituency etc etc. I was impressed that he's so organised already. Apparently Rishi was out in his constituency consulting with voters this am too.
As I said, I'm impressed that they 're out actually asking us about our views rather than prancing around TV studios bigging themselves up.
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John Ludwig I tend to agree. My point was to illustrate that the sheer pressure of numbers is unsustainable whether the incomers are purple, turquoise or yellow with blue spots! That is, it's not a racist issue. Having said that, you're right, the Dutch, Swedes, Norwegians, Danish, Belgians, Finns, NW Russians, Poles, Ukrainis, Hungarians [oops, I missed out Germans, some of my forebears were German immigrants, as yours, from your surname??] etc etc. can settle in quickly and easily and have been doing so for many decades. Their cultures are similar enough to ours. However, you should have seen what a Somali taxi driver did to my son's arm when he held his hand out for the change he was due. This is not acceptable behaviour in any western civilised nation. My shocked son vowed not to get into a cab with a Somali driver again. so perhaps the lack of assimilation goes both ways....we have so little in common in some fundamental rule of law ways.
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I honestly don't know any sensible adult who thought it was anything else than a lab leak. Of course it was; we all knew it by the first week of lockdown.
Now, the powers that be are faced with the immense task of trying to regain the public's trust. After decades of BS from all sorts of leaders and 'authorities', they've lost me irrevocably now. Politicians, scientists, statisticians, doctors, the Lancet, the NEJM, big pharma, the Wellcome trust, the NHS, big meeja, WHO... and how many more? They all colluded in keeping the truth covered up.
Well done guys - you just made the world a helluva lot less safe and more dysfunctional. And you lost any support you thought you had because of your lying and tyrannical disrespect of we-the-people. What else are you and your mates, CHINA, covering up?
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@_5_675 As a woman, having had more than a few decades of NHS doctor experience, I'm done with them. Even so, I'm pretty sure that I have more respect for them - albeit very minimal now - than they've had for me as a woman.
Please allow me to point you in the direction of the UK gov' major survey 'Women's Health - Let's Talk', published April 2022. A full 84% of the many thousands of women respondents said that their experience with GPs and other doctors was poor to horrendous. Doctors have long had a practice of ignoring and dismissing women's health reportage and requests for examinations and treatment, too often with very unpleasant results (this survey report came with a trigger warning, the details were that awful.)
Add to that the 50+ doctors who are struck off each year for SA their women patients. This is all outrageous, a monumental tour de force of unfettered misogyny. And, as far as I know, the treatment that men get isn't great either - they're less vulnerable to SA and I've seen doctors be afraid of male patients, but that fear makes them behave better, less dismissively and more courteously towards men. IMHO, the NHS doesn't need more money, it needs far more humanity and respect for people.
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@theinngu5560 I rather see the rejection of tradition in the West as an outcome of failed leadership. Where have all the wise and honourable leaders been during the past 50-60 years? Those people who are willing and able to set their own needs/ambitions aside to serve their country and communities? Those with a strong vision of the future that encompasses the needs and ambitions of the people....? What leader has championed and consolidated good traditions? And identified poor and dangerous traditions and ended them? (Why does the NHS come to mind here? We've been endlessly encouraged by those in government to worship this corrupt monstrosity with all its traditions of bullying and cover-ups...)
Apart from a notable 2 or 3, all we've had are control freaks, ideologues, incompetents, narcissists, self-seeking puff pieces that'll roll over and feather their own nests and cover their own backs before serving the people who elected them.
Now all we have are store managers like Rishi who wouldn't be out of place as a McDonald's regional manager. Who knows who his ultimate boss is - it's not the electorate for sure.
Mammon has most emphatically routed leadership.
Without traditional leadership , companies and countries fail, leaving the door open for all sorts of barbarians, loons and ne'er-do-wells...just as we see US and Oxford Street stores looted and trashed at will in broad daylight. Leaving the majority of people who are quite content with moderate traditions aghast, confused, annoyed, unsettled, and voiceless whilst the managers, following the money and publicity, pander to the violent, the bullies, those who don't care for any tradition, good or bad, and the would be usurpers.
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