The British Government

As always, I find it important to view the world in a manner outside of social contexts in order to get a full appreciation of the situation. So when you put the British government through this particular analysis, what do you get?

The British Government is an organisation which creates the rules by which the rest of the country lives by. It is a group of people who, despite not getting the majority of people asking them to make decisions, are quite confident in their right to tell other people what is going to happen. And they call the country a democracy by giving people the choice to decide who’s in charge, without making sure that the person in charge doesn’t lie about what they are going to do to gain favour, or allowing people to stop that person from making decisions which are a detriment to the rest of the country once they are in power.

The British Government is a group of wealthy people telling poor people that they are going to get less money by which to live their lives, justifying it well and nodding their heads. They are a group of people who I’m rather sure view the anger of its citizens as another aspect which they need to keep below a certain level. They view the majority of the British population as statistics, and if they become unruly, make promises about the next election which they will ultimately fail to keep.

The current British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is an ill-informed man who makes a great many decisions based on his own personal views. Due to the actions of a small group of extremists that claim they are affiliated with a religion of whose morals they contradict, the Prime Minister has decided that the entire religion is now “poisonous” to “British values”. This man seems to consider British people above all else, unless they are asking for a pay rise. This man’s ignorance steers the country kicking and screaming into disrepair.

You’ll have to excuse me if I sound somewhat biased in this blog post. It’s probably because I’m just one person in a sea of faceless angry voices whom the Prime Minister and his government have decided to ignore in the hopes that we’ll settle down and get on with things. The fact that such ignorance and hatred is driving the decisions he makes as a country is worrying, appalling, and downright disgusting.

It would be absurd for me to deliver this spiel about ignorance and hatred without mentioning that fighting such values with our own ignorance and hatred will get us nowhere. We do not throw things at politicians. We do not target them or burn down their houses. We become better than them, we defeat their arguments, and we change the country the way it is meant to be changed – without violence. But we have to do something about this government before we are all swallowed in its greed and fear-mongering.

Addtional: I want to add that my friend said to me, “It feels like they’re manufacturing rage in order to hide something.” The fact that this actually sounds feasible to me speaks volumes about the direction in which we’re going. And if that is the case, then they’re certainly doing it right, which is almost even more worrying.

Self-Reflection

For as long as I can remember, I’ve believed that the key to becoming a better person lies in one’s ability to see the world and themselves from many different perspectives. This way, they can avoid ignorance, unnecessary offense, and generally be kinder to others.

Sometimes, we don’t follow our own rules. I had to remind myself this morning that no matter your philosophies or beliefs, self-reflection and re-adjustment are always necessary, or you’ll find yourself slipping into another person who you might not entirely like. On Twitter this morning, I came close to creating a game, which, should it have taken off (which I’m sure it wouldn’t have), could have potentially offended many authors.

The premise of the game was to tweet the hashtag, conjure up the name of a pretentious-sounding novel, and then search for it in Google. If it was a real novel, you gained a point. If it was also a movie, you gained two. I rather quickly deleted these tweets after realising that creating a game that is literally about judging a book based on its cover is one of the dumbest and most ignorant things I could do.

The concept of being pretentious is, from my understanding, the act of claiming to have a high standard of morals and acting like you support charities and movements, but only so that you can gain some sort of moral upper-hand over your friends and be revered and admired by the people around you; so that they can call themselves a better person than you.

Basing an author’s ideals on the name of their book, therefore, is a rather dense thing to do. It could be a lovely book; it could be good, and simply not my cup of tea. It could even be autobiographical and highly self-critical. And that is why continual self-reflection is important, else I would not have realised this.

Sorry this blog post has been rather self-centric today. Coming up I hope to be making some blog posts about The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and writing comedically, and the rise of storytelling in videogames such as those found in Telltale Games’ creations. Also, maybe a thing or two about cats, and why they shall become transcendent beings.