I’m listening to politics on radio 4 and here it is so clear. The Tory has a lime in his mouth and his voice ticks the boxes of practiced RP. His rhythms are establishment rhythms. His inflections are familiar but I’m bored of them. But then the opposing voice has the upflection we have come to associate with campaigners who have no grounds for their campaign. It’s a vocal habit that expects full agreement and judges dissent in advance. “The thing I’m saying is common sense to every decent person who thinks correctly.” I always want to shout “ARSEHOLES” at people employing that voice, even if I agree with the content.
Both people are snakes. I do not want either of them anywhere near policy. But yeah they are talking about the possibility of election. I don’t know who either of them are, but I reckon you’ve heard of both of their schools. One has identified as establishment, the other has identified as anti, and has been in opposition long enough to never have been an adult when the prize was being part of establishment. It’s just one huge shitpie Hydra. The talking head moves around, occasionally might even come from a different neck, but… it is always part of the same Hydra. Undefeated. The Greeks knew what they were talking about.
Putin is clever though. See how he has pointing to Ukraine despite the IS taking credit for the attack that maybe he funded. This is the post truth world. And he has long made it evident that the laws our current peacekeepers have made don’t apply to Russia. Cuz they aren’t him. This is a big old geopolitical shift even if it looks like grandpa Tsartsar wanting the old Soviet Union back before he dies.
The worst part is that there’s gonna be so much killing. I’m still making sure I know where my iodine is, in case the first nuke isn’t on top of me. Pragmatically, these warheads have a best before date. Putin is a practical man.
I have been doing shows for the young of London. Perhaps they’ll have a world. I hope so. My guy wrote a political piece. And one of the motifs in one of the songs sticks with me: “You’ve gotta have guts to do big things!”
Maybe there’s hope.
AlBarclay 