Its all about defence. Self defence and who has the right to it … It appears that not everyone does.

A weeks ago I was scrambling to write something about Pauline’s sudden defence of the ‘little’ man’s right not to be punished for their desires – their beliefs that they too should participate in the fruits of Draco’s wars – and today, overwhelmed by the smog of deceit once again its obvious that not only is our government not yet in election mode; they are oblivious to the opinions of their public. In times of trouble one does not talk about trouble lest it upsets anothers view of the Status Quo. Just a skim across the news headlines and – apart from the fake news, the concerns and the opinions of the King’s public as a whole – we see, as always, that it’s always about defence … The right to defend the beliefs one holds dear; self defence as the basis of all Rights. And, that the true cause of happiness is the ability to punish those who do not conform to a certain view judged to be the status quo …

In all the rush to catch up with the King’s strains of thought – or rather his ideological beliefs – I didn’t manage to get the proposed name of his new Christ’s latest Bill – was it religious discrimination, or religious freedom? Whatever, its all about self defence of the status quo on the condition that one views it from the point of view from one ideologically committed to the maintenance of said Status Quo.

The Status Quo! … Or, as Rosa Luxemburg would have put it, “freedom is the freedom to think otherwise.”

Puddin Hastie’s idea is that, when someone, a power, wants to make significant changes … changes that disrupt the status quo, then its time to challenge THEM; to fight against THEM, if necessary, with THEIR dirty methods. Hastie, of course, uses the terminology ‘to make war’. Hastie also maintains that we – and by we he means Australia and the USA – are ‘Status Quo Powers’ and that a usurping ‘power’ such as China (or in our case the King’s demockratic rule) is not. Once again, I’d suppose that that would be dependent on just where one is ideologically committed to viewing one’s small little world from.

“The presumption that a government rules a people and is wise in its minority, that 50 or so common human beings paid out of the public purse somehow carry so much knowledge and wisdom and act in such sincerity that we can leave them alone to make our decisions for us is the height of absurdity.”

Status Quo is an interesting anti-democratic concept don’t you think? When its yours it has the right of self defence and when its someone elses then there is a duty to tear it apart.

‘Human beings have made themselves special by learning to act in the understanding that they are not special at all. Though many people living within liberal societies persist in imagining otherwise – and quite a number if contemporary philosophers of mind appear to be determined to encourage them in their delusions – history has already resolved the big questions of the philosophy of mind. Modernity Exists Because The Soul Does Not.’ – Matthew Stewart.