Vote: Liberal Democrat (Lib Dems). European Election - Council Election - General Election. UK. Why? 'Without a map orientation is impossible' Bertrand Russell
by Charles Williams
1. It is a parents duty to know or we are at the mercy of every crackpot idea and political nonsense: duty is a very dirty word today! If we don't want to live by isolationist-sectarianising, comforting, expensive - on our time and our money and with infantile fairy tales ('The Infantile Situation' GB). We must teach this ethos to our older children, so that they will not make the same crass, inherent and stupid, repetitive mistakes. 'As soon as man reaches the highest degree of development (in Tolstoy's case it was just 32 years of age), he sees that all is bunkum and deceit; and that the truth, which he values above all, is terrible, that when you look at it well and clearly you awake with horror!' No solid base (for children) and therefore no freedom, producing no ideas, but duty is a dirty word today. Ref, 'Power of the Guardians' Prof Amartya Sen 'Never has so much power been in the hands of so few in the UK'; BBC Today Programme. (Quangoes of Religiosity UK) And, 'Identity and Violence: The Violence of Illusion' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym12o1i2Mak 'The Proper (as in scientific) Structuralis(z)ed View of The World' E.Fromm or 'The Structural World-view' R.Dawkins. 'The Long Childhood' J.Bronowski. 'Clever Imbeciles of The Closed System' A.Koestler. BBC Today Programme. (Quangoes of Religiosity UK) 'The Proper (as in scientific) Structuralis(z)ed View of The World' E.Fromm or 'The Structural World-view' R.Dawkins. 'The Long Childhood' J.Bronowski. 'Clever Imbeciles of The Closed System' A.Koestler. Also, http://www.aqr.org.uk/inbrief/document.shtml?doc=simon.roberts.01-03-2005.anthropology And, 'What Shall We Tell The Children' http://www.mindmeister.com/13207398
2. "The modern purity-leaguer has no qualms about money-grubbing and gormandizing: his sole preoccupation is sexual licence, particularly in other people.'
3. The present (fed up): suspect and deeply flawed, inherent positions: the Right or Left (Party politics; nods and winks; old boy networks. Royalty - nationalism; Churches - superstitions, medieval traditions of Parliament, so on...). 'Infantile Situation GB'. In every primitive (anthropological anomie/anomy - anomic, bricoleurs or Bricolage - pre-logical) tribe we find the medicine man in the centre of society and it is easy to show that the medicine man (sometimes: a leader, politician, doctor, evangelist, priest... celebrity or royal, i.e., one who knows what is best for all others) is either a neurotic or a psychotic or at least that his art is based on the same mechanisms as a neurosis or a psychosis. Human groups are actuated by their group ideals, and these are always based on the infantile situation. The infancy situation is modified or inverted by the process of maturation, again modified by the necessary adjustment to reality, yet it is there and supplies those unseen libidinal ties without which no human groups could exist. The medicine men are the leaders in this infantile game and the lightning conductors of common anxiety. They fight the demons so that others can hunt the pray and in general fight reality.' Geza Roheim 'The Origin And Function Of Culture'. 'Identity and Violence: The Violence of Illusion' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym12o1i2Mak And, Amartya Sen 'GB's Power of the Guardians' 'Never has so much power been in the hands of so few' - Schools UK.
4. 'In general, important civilisations start with a rigid and superstitious system, gradually relaxed, and leading, at a certain stage to a period of brilliant genius, while the good of the old tradition remains and the evil inherent in its dissolution has not yet developed. But as the evil unfolds, it leads to anarchy, thence, inevitably, to a new tyranny, producing a new synthesis secured by a new system of dogma. The doctrine of liberalism is an attempt to escape from endless oscillation. The essence of liberalism is an attempt to secure a social order not based on irrational dogma, and insuring stability without involving more restraints than are necessary for the preservation of the community.' 'Whether this attempt can succeed only the future can determine'. Bertrand Russell 'The History of Western Philosophy'.
5. The Lib Dems attitude's to War (anti) (My three pet hates - ignorance, poverty, war - in any order or My four hates - Small talk, ignorance, certainty, and war. Daddy and Grandpa. 'Whenever you kill a human being you are killing a source of thought too. A human being is a collection of ideas, and these ideas take moral precedence over a society. Ideas are patterns of value.' Robert T. Pirsig. And, 'When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.' http://luckyme0.spaces.live.com
5.1. Polly Toynbee of The British Humanist Association libdemsRT @willhowells *puts on nose peg* Polly Toynbee says vote Lib Dem in the Euro elections: http://tinyurl.com/nfotvz *takes nose peg off*
5.1.1. War, and supporting the/your armed services. Violence is sometimes right! You criticize your government, and say that war never solves anything. He sees the innocent tortured and killed by their own people and remembers why he is fighting.