MC uses the hostages in Gaza and the stabbings and riots and Dublin as the jumping-off point for a discussion of various ghastly features of our current dystopia.
Little Girl ‘Lost’?
by MC
Words tend to change meaning over time, but also tend to have a meaning locked to a time and a place. Words such as ‘Fascist’ and ‘Nazi’, for instance, described a particular view of Socialism which was a modification of Communism where the means of production remained in the hands of the ‘owners’ but where every nut and bolt was controlled by the party.
Both of these word have become epithets used by ignorant people to describe conservatives and conservative thought, the so called ‘far-right’ in modern parlance.
Demonstrations in Dublin, Ireland were blamed on the ‘far-right’ because a culture-enricher took a knife to grade-schoolers. Conservatives on the whole see children as extremely important members of society. Leftists see them as a weapon to use against ‘conservatives’.
So a little girl, kidnapped by terrorists, was ‘lost and then found’, as if from a popular hymn about slavery.
Children are a vulnerability in a normal, decent society. They need to be physically protected, and now it appears that they need to psychologically and emotionally protected. To attack them by indoctrination appears to be one of the most malignant traits of modern collectivism, The USSR had its Komsomol, Nazism had its Hitlerjugend and Bund Deutscher Mädel, where children were taught to perceive non-Aryans as Untermenschen and thus disposable. Hamas, too, has its presence in the schoolroom.
The Boy Scouts in the UK was the first to fall. In the ’60s it was transformed from a paramilitary (non-political) boys’ club to a proto-collectivist ‘Komsomol’. Gone were the knots and splices; in came the socialization and ‘voluntary’ work (motivational slavery).
Pre-1966 ‘Advanced Party’, we used to go to one of the local girls’ reform (prison) schools/homes to help in removing some of the more dangerous trees from their grounds. We would fell them, de-branch them and then cut them up into manageable logs. In return we were given a really nice lunch (served by the girls themselves; it was the only contact we were allowed). This was symbiosis at work: we became mini-lumberjacks competent to use axes, crosscut (two-man) saws, splitting wedges and ropes.
That stopped…
Boy Scouts became ‘Scouts’. Boyish (risky) pursuits and games (“Briish buwdog” [sic]) were gradually removed.
As Sea Scouts this hit us very hard. Overnight we lost our sailing qualifications and had to requalify under the Royal Yachting Association rules which included a mandatory course and cost hundreds of pounds. Scouts became a classist group where ‘the puir wee bairns’ could get help from welfare, but whole swathes of kids were now excluded because their parents were not rich enough to afford the training, but were not on welfare either.
Scouts, particularly Sea Scouts, became a club for the entitled.
Another word that holds historic meaning is the word ‘pogrom’ from Czarist Russia. It was a very specific term to describe government/church-sponsored mob brutality towards Jews. But what do we call a pogrom as we have seen in London, Berlin, etc. in the past few weeks?
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