Now....what is certainly not a ‘blog’, even if on cheap pages supplied
by blogger.com though I never understood why easily modifiable webpages called
blogs are called blogs. They are just online scribbles or brochures. And a
chronicle or diary is just that.
Which is a bad allegory in respect of ‘freedom of speech’. Just as
speech and writing were invented thousands of years ago, if new words or
attitudes come along, they don’t change anything. Indeed it is really nasty
ageism and racism against old races, who were just as smart as us because
working out the simple indivisibility of speech and writing anything, hasn’t
changed.
Discourage even by “nooohhh that’s just not said..” never said to your
face but so often behind your back – or too your neighbours, especially in the
regions I have inhabited – soon to leave, is exactly what the
ancients discovered, in full: the ‘superior’ will always use any
disparity in just whom may say things, to ‘dominate’. And profit.
And keep down the plebs and tramps.
Which is why the Uks gorgeous longest ever recession, will be fab
for.... well no one else yet as they forgot, that it is all very well being
nasty about those being evicted up the road, but when their rents go up 505
too...well they may just recall conversations in distant time gone by a few
years back “ oh yes..he meant us too...we too may one day need to use LL our
‘rights’...without some supposed best mate a little better off, then...being so
so fuckin full of herself..”
Which in a decadent dilettante society is terribly difficult to
understand. It is terribly simple if one is a day rate labourer building
football stadiums, and dies. The relations will automatically be asked in by
radio 4 to speak. Out... but often will need to use false names. We know why..
It is all terribly simple, nothing has ever changed. Except a decadent
younger generation- anyone under about 50, many of whom wont yet have
discovered just how nutjob fascist even your local council can be. Especially
when it comes to trying to steal “YOUR” inheritance money, over “20 odd
thou...when they charge you 700 quid a week for b+b and gruel for your
oldfolk... and you know full well that the budget for the gruel is 10p a day
and thus they are technically doing a Nazi on your old folk.... at
your expense. You may in these instances wish to ‘speak out’...
And you may be surprised how many chubby little slobs you will encounter
in their ‘systems’ who’s first ‘response’ to any such suggestion will be “oh
you really cannot do that..it will be against your elder’s best interests if
her name appears in the paper..and our lawyers may have to...stop that..”
Which is a slightly extreme version – but only very minorly fantastical
because there are many other scenarios (not involving children) of
the same mad threats. In other words we do not have a culture of “ i got my
first amendment rights” here...
Now, there is one thing in the ‘system’ ‘administration’ -
all surprisingly chunky people who sit at desks – or more often than not these
days expensive cars and devices, trying to shut up the citizen when
they have truths to share which may in their small minds affect their profit,
pension, or power structure. But there is a freedom to speak maybe at times as
bad or worse when supressed. Self censorship, regarding very simple things
going on around ones home patch.
Such as the local river being utterly ruined by all the various farming
and shoddy building around and about leaching in household waste, runoffs from
fields and other agricultural activity including just too much mud from
agricultural pathway use which runs into the rivers then so muddies the waters
the lifecycle of fish is so restricted it leads to environmental collapse.
Fact.
But if one were to say that truth in a rural region – where most know it
is a truth, it s quite surprising the real threat of harm one feels.
I know as i have had to keep mine zipped several years.
No more... https://dilettanteenvironmentalism.blogspot.com/
Where there are a few names maybe one day to be stuck in. But only of
those paid by county to be for the wildlife... that's an extreme case.I never
believe in naming anyone...i speak only in regions. But that is dangerous
enough in the regions....where people make ignorant assumptions of whom
one MAY be referring to....even in my always careful
wordings.. deliberately designed never to point a finger.
And then there is another recent example of even me being surprised: in
a small one horse town middle of nowhere except rugged hilly landscapes. Where
one assumes someone knows a spade when one sees one. A major
employer- ahotel as it happens, London owned, has all its standard hotel staff
– i.e. cleaners, as hotels are about cleaning, the hotel....on self employed
terms. Despite them needing continuity of staff....desperately... as it is more
efficient if the cleaner knows what to clean and what not...
So, London company has their hotel staff – staff...on terms to avoid
paying sick or holiday pay or their national insurance... as any 3year old
knows. And yes even as a worker there, try saying...saying...to people... “
this lot are cowboys operating what should be an unlawful regime not paying you
tax..... you could hardly be less of an 'employee'..”
Just words. No call to strike.
And it is extraordinary in that after listening to one intelligent young
man moan about his employer for weeks, when he is having a huff one day he very
threateningly shouts out “and you say terrible things about my lovely
workplace...” say...say..
Well i couldnt give a damn what anyone in this sick land says to me, but
he better not stop me in the shop when he says he needs help trying to get some
fair sick pay when he sprains his ankle tripping up over their unmarked steps
in the dark..
That is a bad intro. Except it is almost impossible unless writing it
out as a novel, to describe how messed up British people have become about what
one can ‘say’ and what not. And i do not evoke woke weirdo law..it hasn’t
really reached the rural fringes. Nope, the notion of speech, or lack of it, in
simpler rural areas, is a live and well. In ways that really do
hurt. And certainly became the default ‘weapon’. In other words
understanding WHY universal freedom to reasonably politely criticise, call out,
even point the finger, and expect protection from the state, community, or
friend, for doing so, always... as long as one is telling a reasonably
verifiable truth, never more topical. There’s good business in it!
But to an intro i had earlier planned –my problem is i like
writing and just start and before I know it am in the zone and have written ten
pages...
40 years ago over a pint in some more thoughtful part of Britain but
humble pub all of us between punk numbers on the juke box would
share “ course we don’t want ever to become like America...all so horrid and
litigious over there..”
20 years ago i think we well and truly had the thieving litigious
version in for good... find a paving stone and trip over it so as to rip off
the council for a five grand pay out... i bet most ‘whiplash’ injuries were at
least exaggerated if not outright fraud. One of the most interesting
chats i ever had was with a 20 year old Portuguese law student on a
bus around 20 years ago “ so do you do civil litigation and claim
law..?” or words to that effect. Her answer was “i don’t understand what you
mean” There was no culture of suing for a payout at the slightest
possible chance.
But at the same time arose another culture.
I am a 10 year sort of minor flaneur. Thats not a voyeur its someone who
likes to wander and sometimes observe – in the background... in
a writerly way. Orwell did this a lot. Listening in cafes or pubs
occasionally if i need to charge a device... I like at times to take the
bus...and listen.
I knew it already, but even if very far flung places well away from
stressy conurbations - places where people one would assume had some
balance and sense of what is in the common good, it never ceases to amaze me
now: the amount of times someone is discussing with a friend or
relative how to ‘get’ someone in their circle –neighbour, ex lover, even ex
friend, with law...
Never how they can find some peaceful solution to some (always minor)
little skirmish, or ask some wiser older person to have a quiet authoritative
word; nope – how to report someone to someone... not to get a quiet word in
their ear but ONLY to prosecute, punish..
Not in fact get ‘revenge’ - it simply has become the culture
– to cause someone else some legal plight...
I doubt it is even as bad as this in USA.
I find it extraordinary how NO one can ever consider some civil in house
way of settling some dispute or as remedy to some
situation considered negative (by one party). Nope.. in short
everyone seems to want everyone else to really suffer at the law. Arrest,
injunction, fine, penalty, or worse...
Litigious...in fact i think we need a new word as that is simply selfish
state sponsored antagonism. I have known several coppers recently quite well on
a personal basis . They concur..
So, we have the very worst of USA. Without it seems a tradition in the
USA where going to law is positive.
And THAT is what i hope one day can be shown via a film if it can be
made...
The citizen going to law on PRINCIPLE...
A ‘test’ case so as to advance democracy or keep unruly powers
democratically at bay. This is what USA does so well.
But of course we have another little weirdo UK aspect which is the
pretence that somehow as if by magic our overlords are somehow just
more....British... than nasty USA institutions, corporations, and
politicians...
My, my, they really got you.... because i am a bit of a corporate/
politics / society / economics expert, and these days i know of
hardly any difference... except our citizenry don’t anything like as often
develop a test legal case when one or other is misbehaving...
A case which may yes benefit one in some small way (this one had ZERO
effect on me – my story was already OUT !!!...well enough of
it...) but at the same time create a precedent which would also help
wider society ..set the bar for other citizens treatment...
And also get publicity - ALL LAW IS THEATRE
TOO... highlight an issue that needs highlighting... ends up written
in the papers...on the breakfast tv shows..gossiped about later in the cafes
and pubs...Maybe accurately rather than the years of inaccuracy i personally
'suffered'.. hahh hahh fools and you pays your money you take your chance... or
in my case never was paid anything ... except 750 oce for a silly little
article with photos.....didnt even pay my photocopying bill. But then there is
no price on trying to do something hat may REALLY help others....because you
can.
Its just a game but the brits are far far too special to even bother
much doing what the yanks manage and theyre about as selfish as you can get...
Ergo
(though lack of REAL - meaning non fake confected
vulnerability Olympics style facebook moaning, resolution of issues in society
does lead to a real lack of esteem which i argue is one reason mental health
gets worse and worse.. ‘the beast’ is in charge.. only because the citizenry
fail to do the fuck hard work to hold it to account... through the courts..
like those finer cousins do)
STILL to merge - this - with https://www.giveittothemanproductions.com/ which i didnt
at first as even i was coy about wat i may say to one...and not another....for
no reason other than we have weird culture of fear, here...about words.
