Thursday 19th November

We live in an interconnected world like none before.  It may seem that we are helpless in the face of the madness of the world, but we are a part of it.  And part of the trouble too.  Our problem, as humans, is that we are so adaptable.  As long as we can get by we turn our backs on problems.  We have to really be cornered before we react, we simply go along with everything; we shrug our shoulders and say – “Well, there is nothing we can do, it is just the way things are.”  But this is in fact Complicity.

Every time we allow another bomber to take off loaded with death we are complicit.  Complicity in murder actually.  Every time we allow an oil company to start fracking, every time we ignore the warnings about Global Warming. every time we walk away when someone is being racially abused (well, we don’t want any trouble) we are complicit.  We proudly boast that we have Democracy over here, when all we have is a once in every five year chance to kick out one lot; much like on Strictly, or X factor – we think we are voting, but it is the judges who really decide.  And we blithely hand the reins of power over to a bunch of Politicians who have probably lied to varying degrees, dangling gifts in front of us silly children “Which sweeties would you like this election?” and we go along with it.  We shrug our shoulders when the Chancellor makes cuts he promised only a few weeks ago that he wouldn’t touch.  We are dragged into wars by a Media which portrays our “enemies” as evil and lunatics, when in reality they simply have a different world view than we have.  Only a few months ago Russia was being portrayed as an enemy in the making and now they are our mates when it comes to bombing ISIS.  And we are complicit in all of this.  Because we allow it to happen, because we do not march, we do not protest, we do threaten our rulers, they take our silence for Complicity.  Which it is.  Wake up, and smell the rancid coffee before it is too late.