Rambling.
This is not a blog. It is an unconnected series of ideas, mad rambles and tangents.
Tyranny is a subject close to my heart. As a student I read about all sorts of state sanctioned madness more than a sane person should. I can safely say I have a keen understanding of the concept of Tyranny. If you are interested in what this means feel free to read on. The quickest answer to what makes someone a tyrant is that a tyrant is:
A figure of authority in a legal sense.
They act purely on self-interest.
They have no moral integrity. *
My original intention was not to write a book on tyranny but about the importance of voting in our modern age. However as my research progressed I realised that voting is no longer as powerful a tool as it used to be. Voting and votes are essentially purchased via misinformation and a bias media.. The main problem with voting is that once we have elected someone we have essentially given them a mandate to rule however they see fit. Britain does not have an actual constitution and so our politicians are free to pass whatever they wish. There are no real balances in place to prevent any abuses of power and the fact that old scandals dating back decades have only just come to light should be a sure sign that there are undoubtedly many things at hand that we are not being told about.
The only thing keeping our MPs and political leaders in check is their moral integrity and peer pressure. (Don't choke) If the Iraq War is anything to go by we know that the moral integrity is bloody lacking and peer pressure led us off a cliff into a damn mess.
The key difference between a good leader and a tyrant is that tyrants lack moral integrity. "Moral integrity" is such a subjective term but there are instances when a human being demonstrates that they have none. Any example that I offer would turn into an entirely separate blog. Y
In Britain we think of tyranny being something related to Stalin, the Third Reich or despots but tyranny is not always a bloodbath. Tyrants can have winning smiles for how else does someone hold onto power whilst robbing a nation blind? <That link is about how George Osborne's best man made millions from the Royal Mail sell off and donated £500k to the Tories.
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Considering how much rent devours my income....I kinda wish I was allowed to buy the council house for £5k when they were sold off for that much. Sure I was a teenager but I will essentially have paid what the company spent on this house after 53 rent paying weeks. Why are the middle classes saddled with mortgages that shackle them to the land and their job until they get lucky or pay it all off whereas the company that owns my house have a free ride? In some cases it will be housing benefit that pays off the costs of purchasing the property. Essentially the state sells off an asset only to pay for it with the tax money. People are paying twice for the thing they are paying to live in. Especially if there are people claiming housing benefit in the first place within the house you live in on account of being the main earner. This is madness. Universal basic income would minimise paperwork. 29 pages to claim housing benefit. 29 PAGE FORM! The Housing Benefit in some cases is less than £30 a week. You can tell the state pays it workers without any care for efficiency and costs. How long would assessing a 29 page form take?
This is why the Green's idea of a Universal Basic income is superior to the other ideas on offer.
It would essentially force people to take responsibility of their own lives for they are being given the means to do so.
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There is a work fallacy where we value people by their income or the job that they do yet the job that soemone does may not provide enough for them to grow as a person or family. The fact of the matter is this: The welfare cuts are hitting working families hardest. Work is only worth as much it enables you develop yourself whether by saving up money so you can enter something else or by having programs in place that help you hone in your skills. The fact that a family can be working and receiving welfare means that their job is not paying enough. The state is essentially enabling companies to get away with paying workers low wages as the state will pick up where Scrooge McDuck does not!
Merely working for the sake of working is a modern form of mental bondage that hinders the nation as a whole. Workers that refuse to claim because our welfare system is a humilating process get punished for daring to be independent. At the Job Centre in Banbury I would sit and wait for my appointment with a member of staff whilst other claimants were interviewed IN FRONT OF ME. I saw staff laying into people for not doing enough, cutting their welfare and telling them to try harder. What sort of person kicks the crutch from under someone and demands that the person stand up straight? You are judged, it is a spectacle and nothing short of embarrassing. This frustration against the system and the world we live in however taken on on the immigrants or citizens from other ethnicities BUT the fact is that our system is purely a business model about squeezing as much out of someone for the lowest possible pay. This is why the retail environments have shifts all across the place, this is why people might be trainees for long after they've actually trained, this is why we have an apprentice minimum wage of £2.80 an hour!
Outside of the welfare state we see each generation being offered lower wages as they enter a job. We will recreate a bunch of working class people unaware of their powerlessness for they are wearing suits.
Thank you for reading.
I currently have no major blog plans in mind but I will continue to write.
TheCommon Sense Eccentric.
*I will find sauces and share those sources once I start writing it.
This is not a blog. It is an unconnected series of ideas, mad rambles and tangents.
Tyranny is a subject close to my heart. As a student I read about all sorts of state sanctioned madness more than a sane person should. I can safely say I have a keen understanding of the concept of Tyranny. If you are interested in what this means feel free to read on. The quickest answer to what makes someone a tyrant is that a tyrant is:
A figure of authority in a legal sense.
They act purely on self-interest.
They have no moral integrity. *
My original intention was not to write a book on tyranny but about the importance of voting in our modern age. However as my research progressed I realised that voting is no longer as powerful a tool as it used to be. Voting and votes are essentially purchased via misinformation and a bias media.. The main problem with voting is that once we have elected someone we have essentially given them a mandate to rule however they see fit. Britain does not have an actual constitution and so our politicians are free to pass whatever they wish. There are no real balances in place to prevent any abuses of power and the fact that old scandals dating back decades have only just come to light should be a sure sign that there are undoubtedly many things at hand that we are not being told about.
The only thing keeping our MPs and political leaders in check is their moral integrity and peer pressure. (Don't choke) If the Iraq War is anything to go by we know that the moral integrity is bloody lacking and peer pressure led us off a cliff into a damn mess.
The key difference between a good leader and a tyrant is that tyrants lack moral integrity. "Moral integrity" is such a subjective term but there are instances when a human being demonstrates that they have none. Any example that I offer would turn into an entirely separate blog. Y
In Britain we think of tyranny being something related to Stalin, the Third Reich or despots but tyranny is not always a bloodbath. Tyrants can have winning smiles for how else does someone hold onto power whilst robbing a nation blind? <That link is about how George Osborne's best man made millions from the Royal Mail sell off and donated £500k to the Tories.
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Considering how much rent devours my income....I kinda wish I was allowed to buy the council house for £5k when they were sold off for that much. Sure I was a teenager but I will essentially have paid what the company spent on this house after 53 rent paying weeks. Why are the middle classes saddled with mortgages that shackle them to the land and their job until they get lucky or pay it all off whereas the company that owns my house have a free ride? In some cases it will be housing benefit that pays off the costs of purchasing the property. Essentially the state sells off an asset only to pay for it with the tax money. People are paying twice for the thing they are paying to live in. Especially if there are people claiming housing benefit in the first place within the house you live in on account of being the main earner. This is madness. Universal basic income would minimise paperwork. 29 pages to claim housing benefit. 29 PAGE FORM! The Housing Benefit in some cases is less than £30 a week. You can tell the state pays it workers without any care for efficiency and costs. How long would assessing a 29 page form take?
This is why the Green's idea of a Universal Basic income is superior to the other ideas on offer.
It would essentially force people to take responsibility of their own lives for they are being given the means to do so.
-----
There is a work fallacy where we value people by their income or the job that they do yet the job that soemone does may not provide enough for them to grow as a person or family. The fact of the matter is this: The welfare cuts are hitting working families hardest. Work is only worth as much it enables you develop yourself whether by saving up money so you can enter something else or by having programs in place that help you hone in your skills. The fact that a family can be working and receiving welfare means that their job is not paying enough. The state is essentially enabling companies to get away with paying workers low wages as the state will pick up where Scrooge McDuck does not!
Merely working for the sake of working is a modern form of mental bondage that hinders the nation as a whole. Workers that refuse to claim because our welfare system is a humilating process get punished for daring to be independent. At the Job Centre in Banbury I would sit and wait for my appointment with a member of staff whilst other claimants were interviewed IN FRONT OF ME. I saw staff laying into people for not doing enough, cutting their welfare and telling them to try harder. What sort of person kicks the crutch from under someone and demands that the person stand up straight? You are judged, it is a spectacle and nothing short of embarrassing. This frustration against the system and the world we live in however taken on on the immigrants or citizens from other ethnicities BUT the fact is that our system is purely a business model about squeezing as much out of someone for the lowest possible pay. This is why the retail environments have shifts all across the place, this is why people might be trainees for long after they've actually trained, this is why we have an apprentice minimum wage of £2.80 an hour!
Outside of the welfare state we see each generation being offered lower wages as they enter a job. We will recreate a bunch of working class people unaware of their powerlessness for they are wearing suits.
Thank you for reading.
I currently have no major blog plans in mind but I will continue to write.
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*I will find sauces and share those sources once I start writing it.
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