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This is a diary entry, not a deep and well-thought out piece.
I think that collective known as "the West" is suffering a cultural malaise and a crisis of purpose that is best personified by post modernism - narcissistic, joyless, deeply cynical and incurious.
It's sad that I find myself agreeing with it. I've relished the past week for it's ability to choke out all the sobering statistics we're sure to here about this coming winter.
Whether it's cope or not, the broad reaction to this death here has provided hope of what could be. Few leaders today would find a people willing to form an orderly queue for hours just for a few moments beside their coffin.
One day the people of these islands, will find a new centre and purpose (whatever make-up) that might be. However, we'll have to learn what it's like to be irrelevant and what it's like to struggle for survival. I just hope that we can pass on enough of our heritage to those that live after us.
You misunderstand: I thought that after corona the British people had utterly lost their spirit and I began to hate my countrymen. However in the past week I've seen that something ancient in this country still exists and it has an enormous power. The leaders of the world came to us for once, instead of us going to them. HMQ was an enormous figure *because* of the Throne, notwithstanding her own decent and faithful character. This will persist. Charles will probably be a weak king, average perhaps and William is still a toss-up. This has always been the case with monarchy.
The point is that whilst Eastern Europe has been dismembered by one hideous empire after another we have persisted. World wars, empires, plagues: all these things and we have persisted. Although horribly mangled and cut off from our culture by ignorant foreigners and the survival of the poison of Communism in its cultural form, from our architecture being mutilated or replaced by something so ugly that it can only be a form of envious humiliation, we still persist. There are *trees* near me that are so old that only a guess can be made as to their age, the estimates being made in centuries.
There are a lot of hard times ahead but I am now for the first time in years optimistic. The buildings can be replaced. The foreigners can be assimilated or expelled. This winter will be hard but the British know each other better now after the past week. The foreigners rioting over their imported ethnic squabbles are living on borrowed time.
Ceremonial or not, end of empire or not, IMHO the Queen could have played a more direct role in using her symbolic power to remind her subjects of what it means to be British. She did not have to make speeches against integration and unrooted anywhere cosmopolitanism. But she could well have found appropriate ways of doing culture while holding back on politics.
Of course that is just my preference and I am not only not the Queen I am not even British. So she did what she did, and may have fully endorsed the many changes that she oversaw in her time on the throne. But I do find it odd that the world is asked to admire her restraint when that restraint is connected deeply with the hollowing out of the nation. It is almost as if her symbolic power enabled her subjects to forget the long term enervation she presided over. Well, we still have the Queen! And then when she is gone the loss is felt all the more when people have to come to grips with the losses she helped disguise.
The English shall now have to confront their predicament without the reassurance that the late queen provided. The conspicuous indifference of the recent immigrants reveals the fatuity of the queen's obsession with the Commonwealth.
"It’s okay to treat this place in the most mercenary and self-interested of methods. Extraction is applauded, provided that wealth is spread around to those that assist you in the matter."
As an Irish citizen, I have zero time for all royalty but her visit here in 2011 especially at the memorial for 1916 Revolution dead did a lot of good.
Britain, as Dean Acheson, memorably said in 1960s has lost an empire but not yet found a role. It still has not other than as ally to USA but that is a disproportionate 'special' one. It does as US requires - Iraq illegal invasion, frustrating peace efforts in Ukraine etc.
See a report this week that UK has slid down the world's top income countries while still a wealthy country, and has been overtaken in GDP in 5th place in G7 by India.
De Gaulle was correct in believing they would not be adaptable to EEC. Blair pushed reckless expansion of EU and NATO, basically compromising both. London is almost second home for many Irish but we were not noticeable due to colour and language, and Common Travel Area. Other incomers are visually more prominent.
London has a mayor who accepts no responsibility for crime etc but expects to be heard on every other topic esp foreign matters. Think he recognises the nature of his city better than his critics, as an international nation-city which is located on the island of GB.
But what a city still!!!
Londoners have had to watch Russian billionaires conquer the city just like Arabs in 1970s. The hatred expressed now is legitimised and created by mass media but is expressed in a way still not possible with Arab oil states
Sep 23, 2022·edited Sep 23, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo
and in the end, perfidious Albion elaborate schemes backfired against her
The prodigal son resulted a not so prodigal one
Yes, he "saved" mom's prestige and face (because nothing else was really in danger, the so-called bully living 4 houses away kinda respected her) at the price of her estate , inheritance and privileged place at the dinner's table.
Like an old, nostalgic woman reminiscing of her youth, she became dependent on the whims of the prodigal son, who sought to impose his ideas and his way of micro-managing not only in her charming and crumbling Victorian mansion, but in the whole neighborhood populated by the same naive boomers that previously squabbled every now and then about critical matters like who had the biggest dick.
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This is a diary entry, not a deep and well-thought out piece.
I think that collective known as "the West" is suffering a cultural malaise and a crisis of purpose that is best personified by post modernism - narcissistic, joyless, deeply cynical and incurious.
It's sad that I find myself agreeing with it. I've relished the past week for it's ability to choke out all the sobering statistics we're sure to here about this coming winter.
Whether it's cope or not, the broad reaction to this death here has provided hope of what could be. Few leaders today would find a people willing to form an orderly queue for hours just for a few moments beside their coffin.
One day the people of these islands, will find a new centre and purpose (whatever make-up) that might be. However, we'll have to learn what it's like to be irrelevant and what it's like to struggle for survival. I just hope that we can pass on enough of our heritage to those that live after us.
You misunderstand: I thought that after corona the British people had utterly lost their spirit and I began to hate my countrymen. However in the past week I've seen that something ancient in this country still exists and it has an enormous power. The leaders of the world came to us for once, instead of us going to them. HMQ was an enormous figure *because* of the Throne, notwithstanding her own decent and faithful character. This will persist. Charles will probably be a weak king, average perhaps and William is still a toss-up. This has always been the case with monarchy.
The point is that whilst Eastern Europe has been dismembered by one hideous empire after another we have persisted. World wars, empires, plagues: all these things and we have persisted. Although horribly mangled and cut off from our culture by ignorant foreigners and the survival of the poison of Communism in its cultural form, from our architecture being mutilated or replaced by something so ugly that it can only be a form of envious humiliation, we still persist. There are *trees* near me that are so old that only a guess can be made as to their age, the estimates being made in centuries.
There are a lot of hard times ahead but I am now for the first time in years optimistic. The buildings can be replaced. The foreigners can be assimilated or expelled. This winter will be hard but the British know each other better now after the past week. The foreigners rioting over their imported ethnic squabbles are living on borrowed time.
You are Canadian she’s your queen as well. 
Toronto? 
How long can the situation of Beata and Jermaine last however?
“It’s not my city, it’s not my country, it’s not my people. “
It’s not Beata’s * or Jermaine’s either. I am merely asking- how long does that last?
*Beata will soon enough live through the next partition of Poland, so where can she call home?
They call it Dubai West here
Ceremonial or not, end of empire or not, IMHO the Queen could have played a more direct role in using her symbolic power to remind her subjects of what it means to be British. She did not have to make speeches against integration and unrooted anywhere cosmopolitanism. But she could well have found appropriate ways of doing culture while holding back on politics.
Of course that is just my preference and I am not only not the Queen I am not even British. So she did what she did, and may have fully endorsed the many changes that she oversaw in her time on the throne. But I do find it odd that the world is asked to admire her restraint when that restraint is connected deeply with the hollowing out of the nation. It is almost as if her symbolic power enabled her subjects to forget the long term enervation she presided over. Well, we still have the Queen! And then when she is gone the loss is felt all the more when people have to come to grips with the losses she helped disguise.
Very fitting that just when the Queen died, Leicester erupted with Indo-Pakistani riots. A taste of New Britain?
The English shall now have to confront their predicament without the reassurance that the late queen provided. The conspicuous indifference of the recent immigrants reveals the fatuity of the queen's obsession with the Commonwealth.
"It’s okay to treat this place in the most mercenary and self-interested of methods. Extraction is applauded, provided that wealth is spread around to those that assist you in the matter."
Karma's a bitch!
As an Irish citizen, I have zero time for all royalty but her visit here in 2011 especially at the memorial for 1916 Revolution dead did a lot of good.
Britain, as Dean Acheson, memorably said in 1960s has lost an empire but not yet found a role. It still has not other than as ally to USA but that is a disproportionate 'special' one. It does as US requires - Iraq illegal invasion, frustrating peace efforts in Ukraine etc.
See a report this week that UK has slid down the world's top income countries while still a wealthy country, and has been overtaken in GDP in 5th place in G7 by India.
De Gaulle was correct in believing they would not be adaptable to EEC. Blair pushed reckless expansion of EU and NATO, basically compromising both. London is almost second home for many Irish but we were not noticeable due to colour and language, and Common Travel Area. Other incomers are visually more prominent.
London has a mayor who accepts no responsibility for crime etc but expects to be heard on every other topic esp foreign matters. Think he recognises the nature of his city better than his critics, as an international nation-city which is located on the island of GB.
But what a city still!!!
Londoners have had to watch Russian billionaires conquer the city just like Arabs in 1970s. The hatred expressed now is legitimised and created by mass media but is expressed in a way still not possible with Arab oil states
There are more interesting cities.
About the Queen I think the significance is less to do with the loss of empire than the disappearance of a world with 1950s norms and stability.
To anyone particularly interested in London I’d recommend Christopher Hibbert’s book ‘London: The Biography of a City’. Brilliant social history.
Sweet burn.
and in the end, perfidious Albion elaborate schemes backfired against her
The prodigal son resulted a not so prodigal one
Yes, he "saved" mom's prestige and face (because nothing else was really in danger, the so-called bully living 4 houses away kinda respected her) at the price of her estate , inheritance and privileged place at the dinner's table.
Like an old, nostalgic woman reminiscing of her youth, she became dependent on the whims of the prodigal son, who sought to impose his ideas and his way of micro-managing not only in her charming and crumbling Victorian mansion, but in the whole neighborhood populated by the same naive boomers that previously squabbled every now and then about critical matters like who had the biggest dick.