Perhaps this is the way to speak of it..
When two actual intellectuals - no quotation marks, because if you are a thinker, can even intelligently sit on the fence, ponder BOTH sides of it - the ecosystems spread around ... you are one. Even if i guess it was when the word 'intellectual' became conflated with moron... or i could use poetically ruder words...
That it began.
What is 'it'?
Always the World Service gives the hint. The four o'clock slot so interesting if one sometimes awakes at that time.
And the 'it'..
If one said (as i did to myself 20 years ago though it was beginning 30 ago) 'race to the bottom', that sounds horrid and elitist and not nice to the underprivelaged who's mum's had Eastenders blaring out from the corner on all day in their tin shack in the swamp..
Which is pretty much the way the ('developing' ) world was.. even thirty years ago.
And of course...OF COURSE! they had no 'choice' to turn it off and think. in the quiet...about life, their indigenous ancestries and some useful life tips they may have had... 'gender' roles... etc etc..
But no they left it on... I didn't. Plenty of 'us' didn't...
But no, 'they' were 'colonised' by really really shit tv which is exactly what i saw meandering the world in my 20s and into my 30s...
And lots of it HOME made...
I cannot remember if they had some bad soap in Yugoslavia blaring out in the corner - maybe because i found the local "birdlife" so so educational - a bit different... they made me think. About back 'home' - even if i have never had one; Anyone who was extremicated by Pilger then Tariq in ones 20s... certainly doesn't consider arms supplier and war stirrer UK to be 'home'..
But at least we could speak about things that are real - like Gwerk airport likely supplying 'logistics' to Nutjob Jenny Cideres..
Greenham Common women camped out for years rantin' against yankee nukes....were - goddesses... honet et droit... brave
So 'free speech' ultimately must be the decider... and i guess only real weapon against the Cideres...
But, what happened?
Listening to an episode this morn, the thing is 'woke' - which quite rightly came out of rational honourable efforts to look at real issues - the Gauchos a bit macho, still.. Indians bumping off girlchilds as they are costly
And Wayne Cousens and his ilk an embarrassment if one is a bloke.
The problem though is .. merely
it is such a small thing really
A truly terrible dialog.
The way that the daughters (especially - sorry sad but true)
Bought up - they were - they were NOT raised in pristine 'uncontacted' Peruvian tribal paradises with no phones or ..soap
Learned language from this shittest tv ever
And then a few decades later go and pollute the universities with some of it... as 'teachers' of the language and thought..
Which all sounds horrid.
But the race to the bottom if one has a mind and memory, really is just that:
the inability to speak thoughtfully and weave several concepts pulling at the great big tapestry of weird old humanity
tunnel vision - as if it is all a soap? .. single issues.. and entirely disproportionate rhetoric.
Just poor speaking. Even if unlike my generation they were raised witgh loads of speaking on the telly all day...
And now feel sorry for themselves.
Or that became their 'currency' as they embark upon their own 'media' driven existence.
As do I.
Feel sorry for them...
('themming' anyone a hatecrime of course).
But don't tell me it is the way 99% of them say it is...
Because only a real thinker should be ...allowed anywhere near communication..
until?
they have learned to read good books too?
to be cont
cos ...i know ONE thinker...
who can even say the unsayable: i tend towards Mister O...
God it's hard... Me i want the fence to wrap me up in its barbs and stop me thinking ...which i must. It's her world..
Except my gen...we need to try and leave behind some actual truths - engagingly communicated.. cos "moan moan", isnt...
IT - the next phase of nothing, begins today.
