Many miles of news have been printed about the recent serious disturbances in London and elsewhere. Clearly, the mere fact of the riots indicates the corruption we have in our society today. People are even beginning to talk about our having lost our country.
On the Daily Telegraph blog site, Pym Purnell has written a blog titled ‘Seven steps to reclaim England‘, and it received a number of thoughtful comments and suggestions (as well as some unenlightened ones). But I think, in general, the better ideas were more concerned with reclaiming control of current circumstances rather than reclaiming England ; they were topical rather than systemic ; they were more in the nature of a national medicine than a healthy diet. But they were necessary.
However, if we truly wish to reclaim the England (or the Britain) that we all loved, we must look deeper. If we do not, then we will be committing the same class of errors that led us into this mess. We will be looking for redemption through procedures rather than through thorough reform.
The true believers in socialist philosophy, whom I blame almost entirely for our present difficulties, imagined that they could best improve our country by enforcing arbitrary laws that would promote the ideals of egalitarianism. The laws would make all people equal ; tinker, tailor, soldier, burglar – all of equal worth. And such is the appeal of egalitarianism that many people who considered themselves politically conservative were taken in by it. They imagined that they could take the bits of political correctness that they liked and discard the rest. Well – the rest is history ; and it is also our present plight.
And our present plight (in summary) is characterised by unwarranted ambitions on the parts of people who desire much more than their personal circumstances allow. Thus we have an uneducated mass who demand employment on their own terms ; we have a half-educated mass who believe themselves to be worthy of grander positions than employers are able or willing to pay for. We have created, in the laboratory of the social scientists, many thousands of women whom society has deemed unworthy to be mothers until they have carved a prosperous career for themselves ; created a climate in which to be a young married mother is to be beyond the pale ; in which to wish to be a good mother who educates her children in the ways of her family traditions is to be deviant. Women now join men as mere Soviet-style units of production in the economic machine.
The socialists have also appealed to would-be conservatives by making an abstraction of society. Society now is simply an economic entity, as if money and purchasing were all that counted. To do this, they abolished the concept of nation with its connotations of kinship and shared traditions. And, to emphasise their disapproval, the socialists have actively encourage mass immigration to dilute the character of the nation. And this measure was calculated to be the last nails in the coffin of what was once Great Britain.
Many of these things, nominal conservatives went along with, because they saw advantages to themselves in the new freedoms on offer ; they were blind to the trap that was laid for them. But the awful truth is that we have to discard the principle of egalitarianism itself, for there is no justification for it if we are to have a healthy society.
Thanks for the safe little corner that you created where the same can gather while madness triumph outside.
Sorry Jamie
I missed “same” in the second line due to my eye. It should read “where the sane can gather.”