Hard to know how personally to take it, but there are a number of sites where my comments just won’t show up. Most recently, the Mail in the UK, the Wall Street Journal, and CNBC (no surprise on that last: I was noting that GE owns them, and that GE sits on the Federal Reserve Board of New York, or did until recently; Warren Buffet, of course, is also heavily invested in GE, which has seen a very good ROI out of this President, and the Dem’s more generally). Of course, it may just be shitty software. For my part, I need not render a firm conclusion at this point. [Many posts have now appeared that were posted after my own, so I must infer that the likelihood is it was not allowed through. Why, I don’t know. The text below is a cut and paste. If I worried about things like this, then I suppose I would worry about this.]
Be that as it may, I posted the following, in response to this article:
This was all predicted in Clockwork Orange, was it not? Can those with perception not see the bloodlessness and vampirism that follows the rejection of coherent moral and cultural narratives?
For my part, I have invented terms for all these things. Thinking new thoughts is always easier with new words.
If you click on the Political section of this link, you will see my treatment of different political orders, of which I recognize four. This is original, as far as I know: http://www.goodnessmovement.com
I also define Goodness in a way which I think could survive the PoMO critique of someone sincerely trying to improve the world, and/or to perceive/think clearly.
To the extent this trauma causes you to ask how the worms got into the middle of your cultural order, it will be useful. It is far better to realize you are falling, than to wake up one day on the ground, not knowing how you got there.
The mere fact that this bothers many Britons–apparently most–is positive.