This post comes from the confluence of two completely unrelated events: people wondering why the men of Great Britain haven’t risen yet (with pitchforks and torches) and the fact I’ve been reading a British mystery series set in WWI, which to my eye (as a former European) has pretty accurate inter-class relationships.
First in defense of British men, I have to say that you can’t judge them too harshly, because you have absolutely no idea what they’re doing to resist or how hard they’re doing it. And won’t actually know until and unless the whole thing tips into the pot. Which, as with us a few months ago, and with us again should the left manage to cheat their way into power at midterms, I hope it doesn’t do for their sakes. And I hope it gets corrected another way, for their sakes. Look, vengeance is extremely satisfying… in theory. In reality it hits a lot of innocents, and leaves those who exerted revenge coarser, tired and guilty. And the last will come out in various truly awful ways, because humans express guilty by doubling down so as to retroactively justify their misdeeds.
But the truth is we don’t know what British men are doing. Can’t know. The same veil of secrecy from their government that keeps most of them from knowing how bad things actually are, keeps us from knowing what they’re doing. To understand the veil of secrecy, cast your minds back just four years ago, when you could get your account shut (like Out of Darkness) on Facebook and Twitter for posting a lot of anti-lockdown memes. And you never got it back. This was a time when I — I who am pretty far down the blogging ecosystem — lived in fear of both debanking and IRS shenanigans. (This last was actually tried, not very expertly, but tried.)
They live with this, but taken to eleven. You can actually get arrested for sharing the mildest of the memes I share here on Saturdays.
The thing is this type of control doesn’t actually suppress dissent. What it does is suppress the knowledge that every person on the verge of losing their mind with rage is not in fact alone. Which makes it harder to have any kind of collective action. It was working here, and it’s working there. People, even people who know the controls on expression or how corrupt the vote is, default to assuming it’s all hunky dory. I keep seeing people talk about how NYC voted for a Muslim communist, or how California is voting for this or that, when the most trivial analysis will show that fraud is so thick on the ground their votes are immaterial. And sometimes the people saying they “voted” for this are the very same ones who denounced the fraud before.
Anyway, the problem with this control on opinion, on movement, on money, doesn’t actually indefinitely suppress bloody uprising. Instead it delays it and makes it inevitable that it will be an indiscriminate blood bath. And then people are very surprised and “never saw it coming.”
So we don’t know where on the pressure cooker scale Britain is, and we should do its men (and women. Oooh boy, the mothers should be boiling) the grace of assuming their acts of dissent and resistance are being kept in the dark.
BUT the whole thing of the abuse of girls by migrants is a puzzle to Americans. Both why the men haven’t boiled over, and why the “elites” allowed it to go on with a wink and a nudge. Same with the whole looking down on the people who are ACTUALLY THE NATIVE PEOPLES OF GREAT BRITAIN and treating newcomers and welcoming them as the most important social project ever.
This has layers. And the first is again, please to look in the mirror. There are entire areas we don’t talk about in the US. Yes, we do get very upset at migrants causing deaths of Americans (when we hear about them) even when by surname those Americans are the same ethnicity as the illegals that killed them. But beyond that, we — and by this I mean various ethnic groups — turn a blind eye on continuous murder and misbehavior because it’s worse to be considered “racist.” And thereby we cause the most racist result of all: that in which minorities aren’t expected to behave like civilized people and black on black, hispanic on hispanic, and for that matter black on hispanic and vice versa, crime happens continuously and no one pays attention, because apparently we don’t expect people who can tan to be fully functional human beings. And before you air your uneducated and eugenics-inspired nonsense about certain races not having the ability to behave like civilized people, let me point out the race — by actual genetic race markers — of most American blacks is Caucasian. Yes, they are that diluted. And also that before the great re-enslavement of the welfare state destroyed their families, their crime statistics were about the same as poor whites (as far as we can tell.) Also that as El Salvador is showing, Latins can behave in a civilized way, if you remove the small percentage of animals from their midst and lock them up. The fact we refuse to do this and that our elites preen themselves on not being “racist” by refusing to do this is one of the worst blots on us as a nation.
Which is part of the whole thing. Look, in this type of thing, we say race, they say class. The problem — and reading this mystery brought back almost forgotten memories of growing up in Europe — is that the upper classes in Europe treat the lower classes the way Americans — pardon me leftist Americans — treat black or latin Americans (even the ones born and brought up here): as a sort of troublesome pet whose behavior can’t be controlled, so we let the pet do it and get mad at anyone who points it out.
This is what was in Europe before the “migrants” started arriving by the boat full. The educated, technocratic class, more snobbish than any nobility of birth, looked at the lumpen masses of manual or service workers, and assumed they were a whole other class of humanity, not quite capable or willing to make an effort to be “civilized” or “educated.”
And yes, class really exists in Europe, in a way that Americans can’t process. I’m always highly amused when Americans write ANYTHING that involves nobility of birth, because there is subtle dissonances and an almost glaring inability to get it. The truth is it goes all the way down. Assumptions are made about people based on their class, treatment is completely different at an almost instinctive level, and people put up with things they shouldn’t because they know that’s what they’ll get based on their class. There is no ethics involved, because no one thinks about it. It’s sub-rational.
As an example, I like to point to our trip to France, in which the organizer, correctly, btw, though it would be more fun to travel from Paris to the Riviera by train, so we could see the countryside as we crossed it. So far so good. We paid for a first class, air-conditioned carriage. Only to find out minutes into the the hours long ride that the carriage’s air conditioning system was not working, the windows couldn’t be opened, and there were no blinds on the windows. As the temperature in the carriage rose to the hundreds, older people started passing out, and employees circulated giving us free water bottles.
Which is when I lost my mind. I and another American (might have been a member of my party or not. I don’t remember) got up and each stood at one end of the carriage holding the door open. Which rapidly cooled it to normal levels. Most of the people in the carriage — French — just stared at us. We spelled each other standing the doorway.
We came to find out that carriage has had broken air conditioning FOR YEARS and not only haven’t they taken it out of service, apparently no one ever thought to send employees to stand in the doorway keeping the air circulation going, even though the temperature in the carriage was at health endangering levels.
Why not? Well, because most of the people in the carriage are either lower or middle-middle class. Most probably middle-middle, giving paying for first class. The government has very little concern for them. They’ll get what they get and be happy. And they’re so used to it that it never occurred to them, spontaneously, to figure out a work around.
We get this a lot from the minorities who have long been pets of the left. They have become convinced they can’t solve things themselves, barring a massive overturn in the system. So it all becomes “the government should do something about it.”
In the same way, this was the situation in Britain before they started importing migrants by the boatload. The locals had become convinced over years — generations, just in the 20th century — of oppression by the governmental and functionary elites that they would be treated a certain way and there was nothing they could do about it. And meanwhile the upper classes and anyone in official authority got used to pushing people around and treating them like they’re the scum of the Earth (the mystery I’m reading.)
In America, even a filthy, obviously spaced out guy on drugs is a ‘gentleman’ and even a lady of the night is a “lady” in address. This shocked me profoundly when I was new here. It is not so abroad, practically anywhere else. (Maybe Canada, but they don’t mean it.) And yeah, even when said ironically, those count.
There is a different TEXTURE to this abroad.
And that was the situation before the migrants came in. I don’t know if this has been identified as a social phenomenon but the thing is the newcomers have no status in the society. While the lower classes have LOW status. So the migrants are immediately above.
Also, the upper classes in Europe are profoundly disappointed with the rest of the people in the country in a way that doesn’t echo in America. Look, sure, our “elites” (snort giggle) think badly of the rest of us and those on the coasts look down on the entire middle of the country. BUT that’s not by monolithic class, partly because we have enough church that the children of the middle of the country routinely become coastal elites.
I see this will need unpacking. Sorry, I’m fuzzy today. So, one of the conceits of the left in the twentieth century was that everyone would be educated and thereby become one of them.
Here, because of status churn, and people moving around and changing status constantly (it’s a very large country, and alas leftism is a positional good. Partly because of the assumption above) the leftist “elites” have the illusion this is happening.
In Europe, they’ve given up and of course as always when the plans fail, the fault is of those lower class yobs who refused to be uplifted. So there is resentment there, and hatred. Meanwhile, with the migrant newcomers, the “elites” don’t know that they too will refuse to be uplifted. They don’t KNOW there’s something intrinsically wrong with them. They “know” that about the native population.
So the migrants are immediately above and the native lower classes will get punished for attempting to break the hierarchy.
Layer on top of that the fact that ideological crap from America gets filtered by their newspapers and magazines and taken far more seriously there than it ever is here. (Another case of when America sneezes the rest of the world catches pneumonia.) As we found out through the BLM insanity, they drank up the academic intersectionality theories and are trying to apply them there. (This has led to Portugal developing an absolutely bizarre relation with gypsies of instance.)
And because leftism is a positional good that denotes you’re “well educated” this means that the elites are ALL IN on it. It’s how they prove their upper class status after all. Which means that those rubes on the lower seats trying to hold the poor migrants accountable for anything are just being prejudiced.
On top of this nauseating soup there’s the fact that multiculti requires you to tolerate if not approve of child marriage, polygamy, mistreatment of women and all the other “vibrant” cultural characteristics of the imported scum.
I have on twitter simultaneously read Indian accounts saying Suttee was a lie invented by the British (It wasn’t. There are first person reports from people of all nationalities) and that Suttee was a beautiful cultural practice we had no business disrupting. The flummery is palpable, but they can’t see it, because being “upper class” depends on NOT seeing it.
And therefore right now, the upper classes in Britain, who consider themselves scientific and technocrats, but are actually mostly jumped up functionaries and middle-managers with “excellent” educations, is now engaged in a to the death attempt to make the real world obey the insanity they were indoctrinated with, layered on the assumptions of their class-ranked society.
Literally to the death. Because when the picture in your head is completely at odds with reality, reality always wins. ALWAYS. It’s a tiresome thing but inevitable. And the longer and harder you try to impose the fantasy, the worse the breakage will be.
So, pray for Britain, if you’re the praying kind.
And keep an eye on us, because though we don’t have classes as such, we’ve let the “some people aren’t as capable as others” bullshit creep in. Which is a disservice to everyone, but particularly the “minorities” affected. And that means we’re ripe to let the same kind of nonsense reign. In fact, it’s started already.
Always remember you’re Americans: if the government is trying to boil you in a carriage in the sun, with windows that can’t be opened and the air-conditioning broken? Stand up and keep the doors open so air flows through.
Metaphorically speaking.
The lives you save are almost certainly everyone’s. Including yours.
According To Hoyt 
the solution to the problem on the personal level comes down to “If not Now, When? If not Me, Who” when it comes to problem solving. You and your train car buddy proved it.
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The holding the doors open for airflow thing reminds ox of various things at $WORK. Simple things. Easy things. So simple, so easy, even ox figure it out — eventually. Ox take way too long. Ox slow. Then ox — eventually — think… why didn’t someone else get there first?
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One thing slower than an ox is a bureaucrat whos livelihood depends upon NOT moving quickly.
Or at all, as the case may be.
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On the subject of trains in France –
A reminder about the two Americans who disarmed the gunman in a French train a few years ago. And that there was a French citizen who also jumped up to attack the gunman, but got shot (fortunately, he survived).
And that the Frenchman who got shot was an immigrant from the US.
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One of those Americans, Alek Skarlatos, is my district’s Oregon state representative.
He’s an unusual 33-year old in politics who is not a Leftist.
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Well, there does exist an American class system, but it’s complicated, fluid, regionally-distributed, convoluted and with many more levels and markers. Paul Fussell explored all this in a book called Caste Marks. Our American class system also doesn’t mark us permanently or for life, although there are some who are convinced that it does… Many such work in media in New York, apparently.
Anyway – yes, I am pretty certain that the class system in Britain does ride much harder on those who live there, especially those bearing the brunt of being sketchily employed and scorned by those higher on the class totem pole, and being victimized by the influx of gimmigrants.
The blogger John Carter at Postcards from Barsoom had a long post on substack this week about how the Irish and Scots-Irish in Belfast have effectively struck back after the latest immigrant atrocity. He makes the point that the Irish have always had far less toleration for ruling class f*ckwittery, have living memory of violent resistance, and thus have a secure personal network for effective resistance, plus access to weaponry and the willingness to use them. The ordinary Brits have nothing of the sort … not to say such can’t be developed, but that kind of organized, effective resistance movements take time to develop.
His post is here – https://barsoom.substack.com/p/why-dont-british-men-do-something
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There is the joke (?) about a couple Brits travelling by train and one remarks to another, “The problem with America is that it lacks a leisure class.” And an American woman who hears this interjects, “Oh, but we DO have a leisure class.” The follow expresses astonishment, “You do?” And she replies, “Yes. We call ’em bums!”
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Celia, can you send it to my hotmail for my insty rounds?
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Done – sent about an hour ago.
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The people of Belfast remember. They still have their contacts, and their codes, and their stash of weapons. And the Protestants and Catholics are setting aside old prejudices for the moment and making common cause against a new enemy.
if the UK goes up, it will start in Belfast.
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The people of Belfast remember. They still have their contacts, and their codes, and their stash of weapons. And the Protestants and Catholics are setting aside old prejudices for the moment and making common cause against a new enemy.
if the UK goes up, it will start in Belfast.
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And there’s an intersection (hah!) between the recent Northern Ireland urban kinetics and the topic of gypsies – one may recall last summer a bit of riotessness occurred in County Antrim a pair of “Romanian Roma” males, aged 14 and 15, were charged with applying Roma social mores to a local schoolgirl, notably with another yout who fled to Romania.
Commentators on X who appear to be locals have noted those June 2025 “riots” were more along the lines of tightly coordinated operations with mass distractions and targeted vehicles burned to block response routes while specific locations were thermally reconfigured. They report that, even though the crown dropped all charges against the poor misunderstood Roma teens, and only a relatively small number of buildings were mostly peacefully arsoned, somehow since last summer most of those gypsies in the Ballymena area have spontaneously relocated out of the UK.
One might after-action that as ‘mission accomplished’.
Commenters note the recent Dublin “riots” followed the same pattern, with tight timing and coordination, extant target lists serviced thermally while response routes were blocked with burning vehicles, and black clad masked young males faced off against the water canons to retain the quick response forces’ attention.
Do not underestimate the other-than-crown-government forces in Northern Ireland.
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“…you can’t judge them too harshly, because you have absolutely no idea what they’re doing to resist…”
It doesn’t get reported, I can tell you that. Thinking back to Covid and the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, we were all doing things to resist the government. Every other truck around here was flying a “F*ck Trudeau” flag, people set up displays in their fields that faced the road, all kinds of stuff. Every single thing in the Canadian media was government issue.
One thing the Brits are doing which I applaud is they are cutting down CCTV cameras and traffic cameras. In the thousands. The guys doing it have a name now, Blade Runners. Cordless sawzall, two minutes work, down she comes. In some parts of Britain, cameras have a lifespan measured in hours. As soon as it gets dark the Blade Runners come for it.
Not reported in the mainstream, but lots of video and pics of dead cameras on social media.
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A few CCTV cameras being destroyed? Might be some malcontents, might be a criminal gang preparing to hit a jewelry store, send extra police to watch the area for a while.
Thousands of CCTV cameras being destroyed? Anyone smart in the government should be very, very worried about that, because that’s step one. Step two is known only to the people planning it, but almost certainly involves people out in the streets doing things that they don’t want being seen by the government’s CCTV cameras. Which, as is obvious to anyone with a functioning brain, should make anyone smart in the British government very, very worried.
Which is why the UK’s current government is going to be completely blindsided by whatever step two turns out to be.
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To be fair, the current government is blindsided by cause and effect, basic economics, and the changing of the seasons.
Sooo…
At some point reality will hit them in some unmistakable way to get their attention.
But, hey, reality, what ya gonna do, right?
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someone not Starmer, until proven otherwsie, might be smarter then three restarded stones in a paper bag thrown into a well
so, depending on how we define current government….
But, I really suspect the ministers around military stuffs resigned because he was asking about sending in the paras, or similar idiocy.
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“Anyone smart in the government should be very, very worried about that, because that’s step one.”
You would think that a movement which spontaneously arises from nothing, has no leadership, has no membership, but none the less cuts down every fricking camera the government puts up… yeah. You’d think that would get their attention.
And it does, but they take the wrong lesson from it. They don’t stop doing the thing that’s getting the determined resistance. Instead, they double down on enforcement and try to catch the Blade Runners. But they CAN’T, because four new ones pop up every time one gets caught.
Same thing is happening in Toronto lately on a much smaller scale, guys cutting down speed cameras.
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Good for them.
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Civilized, hell, some of those ‘migrants’ can’t even behave like people. 😡
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‘class’, and what is and is not ‘done’, tie back into peace consensus, and sunk costs or acceptable costs.
England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland basically have a certain cultural continuity of memory about their ‘peace’, back to when the aristocrats had more active power.
This is why we are mutually alien with them, and why some of their superstitions about international harmonization were bound to end in their tears. Because they kinda assumed that we must be same culture, and that their university folks and our university folks were identically on the same page down to their trade unionists being the same as our trade unionists. Their peace consensus around their courts is tied in to their theories of peace as subjects of the king.
Ours is way too much ‘if the courts are corrupt, we can just form committees of vigilance and hang people, including judges, if we really need to’ to be the same thing, or what they expect. (Last ‘if’ is a big If.) Anyway, we basically have a bottom up peace, know that anything we do on the record can piss others off, and know that we will be abandoned if we mess up, like we know that we abandon others for messing up.
So I am not automatically on the side of a methylated white dude, because I see that as behavior that I will not back.
The UK folks, their class, is a theory of who is their enemy, and who is their ally.
US stuff is fragile, because we know we might need force to get others in other states to do what we want, and we know we cannot 100% count on having that force, because everyone is running the numbers on whether they are hanging with idiots who are going to get themselves sent to prison.
They thought or think that they could keep certain things going indefinitely. I basically tend to assume that their law facutly adn our law faculty are maybe mostly idiots, as part of understanding Starmer and understanding many US lawyers.
Starmer helped break the peace consensus in the UK, but contributing factors in it getting that extreme are the US traditions they do not have, the lack of a first amendment, and the lack of a second amendment.
University set here have done a lot to break the peace consensus here, but it is in better shape. We are just very willing to economically penalize the experts by trusting them less.
This is my TED talk on why I had a breakdown, and really wanted to clearly distance myself from these idiots. For a while I genuinely thought the law faculty might be able to get me lynched alongside them.
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Like how Chesterton talked about how sure, a guy might be an anarchist, but he’d be an English anarchist so that was different.
Remove that bit…
(intro to What I Saw In America, it’s charming as heck)
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my wife was fond of the Daily Mail because “she didn’t like too much news in her newspaper.” I stopped reading it years ago when I got tired off the let’s make fun of the working classes in every issue. Of course, in the Yes Minister typology of newspapers the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run this country. I was a Telegraph man myself believing the country was being run by another country. The hatred of the working classes by the middling classes is a very real thing and is what unites the left and right since they are all middle class organizations.
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Ah, yes. The “unknown” or “underground” resistance. Sounds silly doesn’t it?
Its not.
I can recall during the Covid freakout a certain large Canadian organization decided that all staff were to have the “vaccination”. Didn’t matter that people were working from home. Didn’t matter that a lot of higher ups didn’t really want to come back to the office. The organization would do it. Anyone says no or questions it? Unpaid suspension, followed by firing. This was late 2021.
So, it was reasonably asked, how many do you (upper management types) think will question or refuse? “Meh. Maybe a few dozen. Certainly less than 100. We can reduce headcount by that easily. Nobody anyone would miss”. And that was how it was done.
At first. Staff was given several months to “get with the program” and get the shots. And give management their proof. Questions about how this might be protected? Ignored. It’s a pandemic, those rules go away, right? Questions about safety? Don’t be ridiculous. We’ve been told it’s 100 percent safe and 100 percent effective. So it must be. Lots of high and mid level people were (on the surface) very much on board with this and happy to find subtle ways to “punish” anyone who questioned or didn’t quickly get with the program. They were positively gleeful about it too.
Except, there wasn’t less than 100 people questioning and refusing. It was close to 1/3 of the staff. A large number of the “we can get rid of them” upper management suddenly discovered they had critical knowledge or were holding certain things together. Or had critical skill that they couldn’t easily replace. Oh, and that 1/3 number. That was a LOT of people.
So, the rules got eased up a bit. Provide us with proof that you don’t have Covid a couple times a week. Work from home so you don’t risk other staff (that was a bonus for a lot of people). But the subtle punishment continued, even after the Trucker Convoy (they were bad and wrong, according to upper management). Promotions and opportunities denied. Pushing people out of their positions or trying to get them to agree to a reduced salary. “You’re all going to see how wrong you were when the restrictions come back in the fall”. Except Fall of 2022 rolled around and….the restrictions did not come back. The “subtle” resisters were proven right.
I’d like to say the resisters were all good people and the ones going along with the restrictions were all bad, but they weren’t. Some resisters were normally jerks. Many of those who went along later said they felt they “had to” to keep their jobs and were probably right. Some of the worst offenders who punished others lost opportunities later, were demoted or had to leave. But the same happened to those who resisted or questioned. Full vindication? No. But life is like that. Today no one mentions Covid or the restrictions.
Oh, and while it was going on? If someone had a question or didn’t want to get the shot? “Don’t tell anyone about this, it’ll reflect badly on you!”. Really, though, it was going to reflect badly on management. So management worked VERY hard to keep it a secret. Some still don’t know how many pushed back and for how long.
Which is probably what’s happening in Britain right now.
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I had a sudden insight some years ago, when I was researching the fate of my uncle James’ B-17 crew and how some of them escaped Occupied France in 1943. (I put this into one of my books – My Dear Cousin, if anyone is interested in what I did with the story that one of Uncle Jimmie’s crewmates told, about being in a French railway carriage, in disguise and with fake papers provided by a Resistance circle)
The insight was that in that kind of circumstance, there are two kinds of resistants – the active members, who are going out and blowing up railway lines, helping downed airmen escape, and hiding Jews, and the silent resistants, who know damned well that there is something odd going on … but look away and pretend they do not see a thing. The ones who know that their neighbor has oddly unseen guests in their apartment, see that a purposeful young man is doing something strange with that box of curious tools … that there is SOMETHING odd going on — and they look away, keep their lip buttoned, and do not say anything to anyone about what they have seen, and what they think night be going on. The silent resistants are the pool which the active ones swim in. And like fish, they need that water; that body of fellow citizens who know there is something going on, but keep silent.
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So very true. We aren’t all of an age or physical condition to blow up a railway.
But sometimes, just absentmindedly leaving a bag of groceries on the back step that *slaps forehead* happens to have a box of matches, dinner for six, and a book of ration coupons in it, well…
You know how forgetful old people are.
🤷♀️
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Isn’t it “interesting” how that very body is the one damaged by the current fad of screamers who insist if you, personally, have not done what they want and gotten the results they think would happen, then you are just as guilty as the bad guys?
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If Only Everybody just did what they’re told, the World would be Perfect! 😡
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I think it’s quite a bit darker.
Because if you aim for the quiet folks, who didn’t go and make themselves targets by doing whatever retarded thing you insist they could have, then YOU CAN ABUSE THEM.
It’s permission from your own conscience to be a horrible evil on a safe target. And you can even pat yourself on the back, all the while ignoring the question of if they did more to actually fix the issue than you did.
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Irish democracy. I suspect yookay will come down to Irish democracy … give them nothing.
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I’m coming to the opinion that there’s no intelligent life left in Europe. [Frown]
Of course, I also worry about some so-called Americans as far as intelligence goes. [Bigger Frown]
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I apologize for both the ineptness & brevity of my reply (sarcasm), but I’m at Union station Chicago on my way to Chattanooga and on my phone. See my thoughts at https://frank-hood.com/2024/11/09/titles-of-nobility/.
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And of course, we have Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.… We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
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IIRC, there was a statistic going around that the UK has the highest amount of arrests for social media posts in the world. If that’s accurate, I’d say somebody’s speaking out about various problems there. Enough that the UK is trying to clamp down on the Internet with some of their recent laws.
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This. I think the people of the UK are trying. But they live in a totalitarian surveillance state that is distinguished from Iran mostly by greater efficiency and a lack of summary executions.
Multiply what we experienced during the covidiocy by a factor of ten and extend it across a decade (heck, multiple decades), and then consider what you’d be willing and able to do in that situation. How broken would you be? If you’re like me, with a family that’s completely dependent on your income and the health insurance provided by your job, how bad would things have to get before you were willing to condemn them to penury and ill-health by speaking out or acting against the government? (I have my own answer to that, provided by the covidiocy; similar stakes, if a lower risk of suffering them, and it’s not the brave stuff of stories.) And that’s if you even really knew how bad it was, given the cone of shame and silence they enforce.
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Well stated, Sarah. Before we come down too hard on the Brits we have to remember that America was British until suddenly it wasn’t.
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got modded once again
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A very informative post. I’ve read enough over the years to understand how so many in Europe have been browbeaten into a sense of inferiority. Meanwhile the “elites”, the “educated” and the various leftists indulge in a sense of superiority over the “lower classes”. I think our own would be elites have been trying to impose the same nonsense on us since the founding of the US. Been a much harder sell here but they’ve certainly brainwashed some of the people.
As to the citizens of Europe (including the Brits) fighting back against the flood of incompatible migrants, unless the idiots in government there realize how bad things have gotten I expect a bloody, violent explosion sooner or later. No matter how much the powers that be try to silence dissent the spreading wave of immigrant crime and the governments failure to address it will not remain hidden for long.
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I loved my Dorothy Sayers series when I was young, I still do but have mercy, any more the class distinctions and the casual praise of eugenics and actually Hitler by name especially in Gaudy Night have not aged well. And Dorothy Sayers was not an anti Semite or a class snob by the standards of her time any more than Kipling was…and probably less.
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She pointed out at the time (before the fighting started) that she did not like Hitler, but that is what a character of that background would have been saying.
Remember there were Irish who wanted to go help Hitler because it might hurt the English.
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