Noel Gallagher (Oasis) declared his shame over the recent riots in Manchester. "Hardly the French Revolution" more about "Give us sportswear" - almost a song. Noel says he always wondered when the public would tumble to him not being very good as he and his brother rose to stardom. They were working class, the lowest of the low, but there's now another,lower class. Labour (our Democrats) is feeble, the Tories (our Tea Party somewhat disguised) are scum and there's no point in politics.
Our coalition government is bleating at the moment that their cuts have not made things worse, but better. Many still believe this austerity guff, though it makes no economic sense - the problem is debt, but this debt can't be cured by belt-tightening and saving for better days. Noel is as right as any pundit. We have a number of side-shows including what is now hinted at as a bum-boy relationship on trips abroad, letting his 'friend' stay rent free in his second home (paid for by us) and advancing his 'mate' in a number of ways. The minister concerned is married, but so was McArthy etc. The issue is less one of rent-boy Toryism but that of a shadow arms' trade, though it's the former that will probably bring the minister down. Unemployment and under-employment are massive - well beyond official figures. Our middle-classes and intelligentsia have no solutions and haven't been concerned to find any in the main - they get paid and think only in I'm All Right Jack terms. Revolution in terms of honest policies and a leveling of unearned privilege turns any country doing it into a glass house with its people undressing with the lights off. No clever economic talk is really clever and the mainstream drivel cannot be taught by anyone honest (but it is taught). The levels of duplicity are nowhere more evident than in "communist" China, where housing is often squalid and 13 Ghost cities are built and empty. Get your head round being a 'commie boss' and that one! In the UK we are worried that the EU has traduced our democracy - yet we aren't as concerned about banksterism. We are effectively a peasantry faced by robber barons. Our Peasants' Revolt (Wat Tyler) failed. You didn't really have one in the US against British colonial (via "business") rule either. The big ones in Europe broadly failed too. The 'soviets' never came about and the dream became dictatorship. We ended-up in imperialist wars, fought (whatever we are still told) with bankster money and over trading 'rights'. In my worst case scenario this is in so deep I have Churchill as a bag man for JP Morgan along with Blair. Any lack of evidence is either way in such conspiracy - the idea that the Allies were goody-two-shoes pales. The British Empire and European dominance fell and the American Empire rose. The French are as disgusting as the rest of the developed world despite a "revolution" - so perhaps revolutions are not what we think? In one WB Yeates poem there is no revolution, just beggars on horseback exchanging places with beggars on foot. Do we need a new concept of revolution before we start? Everything I know about organisational change suggests we do.
