Sharing. We tell our children to do this but the adults can’t,
apparently…
Sir Frank Whittle (inventor of the turbojet engine) and I
shared a house and also a public library – albeit a few years apart.
During WW1, a young Frank Whittle moved with his family to
9 Victoria Street in Leamington spa – where, later, I lived with my family from 1964 when
I was born until about 1968. He also did engineering research in the reference
section of the same public library where I indulged my love of words.
Sharing is the obvious right thing to do. Time. Space.
Food. Resources. I do not understand why it is so out of fashion. I’m glad and intrigued to
have shared some space with this man and I am glad I am sharing the world with
you.
I love sharing this city with diverse peoples. Nothing
lifts my spirit more than walking out and hearing the fast energetic patter of
young Polish men and women, seeing little Asian girls dancing along in the wake
of their parents, watching Italians and Spanish gesticulating and smiling. Old
couples strolling in the park and young whips skateboarding; they are all part of the world I am privileged to share.
OK – let’s be honest. I don’t feel that way about everyone…
Trump and Farage and Marine le Pen and the other turds that
floated to the surface when someone kicked the human sewage tank, advocate hate
and exclusion. And those two corrosive ideas have become powerfully popular;
catastrophically so. I don’t like sharing the world with them. But I am pretty
sure I am forgiven that.
But why are they thriving? Why do they
have so much purchase at present? For the same reasons these people have always
risen – fear and instability.
Fear
and instability are the bastard offspring of gross inequality.
Flabby Arab princes squander their nation’s oil wealth on
Disney style palaces and ski resorts in the desert while their people live on dirt.
Sir Philip Green asset-stripped a major (previously healthy) UK business over
here and is happily buying yachts with the employees’ pension funds – having
put 11,000 jobs at risk. And if you want a real view on what is wrong with the
world look at the UK government’s response to this nasty greedy little monster.
They have thrown around the idea of stripping him of his title (!) and now they
are publicly begging him to throw a little money (from his multiple billions)
into a pot for the people he robbed. The government is begging this thief.
Whether its Russian and Chinese oligarchs buying up parts
of London with wealth creamed off state resources or African dictators buying
fancy cars with aid money it’s all about NOT SHARING. The globe is overrun by
spoilt brats.
There is something so dreadfully wrong here and deep down
we know. Huge numbers of young people, in this country of plenty, are currently
on anti-depressant medication (lots of money for the drug companies...) A significant
percentage of the remainder are self-medicating with alcohol and dope (just
wander down any suburban street and smell it).
I have said this many times before but it may stand saying
again – THERE IS ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE. There is enough for everyone – even as
the global population exceeds 7 billion – but only if we share.
If you are hungry it is not because there isn’t enough food
on the planet – it is because some people are over-consuming and/or exploiting
food growers. Too many people are taking a cut and it’s the poor always
bleeding.
If you or your children are sick and cannot get medical
care it is because, across the globe, governments choose to spend billions on
weapons rather than health care. Also Pharmaceutical companies develop drugs
based on profit not human need (see blog 97 Viagra
– yes – Effective cure for malaria – no).
If your child cannot get an education it may be because
there is not enough security and stability to establish schools and create
long-term learning programmes because of war (see blog 190 – War. What is it?)
In the UK we recently uncovered a scandal where police –
paid for by the state – were infiltrating left-wing pressure groups. British
police officers were having full relations with unsuspecting women for years and
even fathering children. There is no evidence that anyone in society benefited
from these tax funded state rapes. Imagine how society might have benefited if
those resources had been spent on trying to stamp out the endemic child sexual
exploitation that is rife here and across the world.
These are all choices human beings in positions of power
have made.
It didn’t just happen
It doesn’t have to be like this
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