No hygge for me as I click in the meter key
before the
lights’ go out.
Alt-right
is not alright, it’s not me,
just needing change does not make me a demon,
does it?
Voting for
change is the only power that I have.
Have you
woke up yet?
Anna :o[
Mama Zen
at Real Toads has us writing (in seventy words or less) our thoughts using words from
the Oxford
Hygge - A quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a
feeling of contentment or well-being, regarded as a defining characteristic of
Danish culture
Alt-right - An ideological grouping associated with extreme conservative
or reactionary viewpoints, characterized by a rejection of mainstream politics
and by the use of online media to disseminate deliberately controversial
content
Glass
cliff - Used with reference to a situation in which
a woman or member of a minority group ascends to a leadership position in
challenging circumstances where the risk of failure is high
Woke - Originally in African-American usage meaning alert to injustice in
society, especially racism
Jeez, I worry about ‘Alt-right’
and the assumption that those who reject mainstream politics are by definition
– right wing. (How easily we have accepted/swallowed this word - differentiating us from them.) Our corporate masters –
those who govern us, our politicians - continue to rule (by defamation in words) those who seek change, seek to be a heard voice, seek the right to exist
in ‘hygge’. It appears that the
have-nots, the disillusioned (including the intelligentsia) have no right to a
voice and if they should utter – they are demonised. Those who rule have power over the ordinary
folk (us) and it is up to us whether we bend with them or stand upright and be
counted.
I live on
the other side of the pond and do not pretend to understand the razzmatazz of
American politics – it is completely alien to me. The elections were well televised over here
and Trump came across as an ego-driven nutter whilst Clinton came across as a
self-opinionated warmonger who was completely out of touch with (perhaps) 50%
of the electorate, her people, Her
pointy-finger, snarling at the ‘deplorables’ almost certainly pushed the vote
towards Trump. Her arrogance (egocentric)
was the agent of her failure – her failure to understand the needs of her people. Her arrogance pushed her people into a corner, a corner of which they have come out
fighting , many fighting blinded, that is blinded by the ‘truth’ of Trump.
And now
there is the shit, the total right-wing shit where those who are indeed
deplorable have been given a voice a right to exist by Trump – and (possibly)
soon, all hell will break loose. I fear for this world of ours. I
fear the manipulators’ who play on the fears of the electorate, the electorate
governed – and to much part ignored –by the business that is politics.
On this
side of the pond is the Brexiteer (A person who is in favour of the UK UK Europe is fed up of being a business where real people don’t count. We do – woke up politicians, don’t at your
peril.
Woke up world, see the seen
injustice. The little man – whether he
knows it or not will win, win as the loser (he seems to be), maybe by those who
do harm by manipulating the fears of those who have no voice, a voice in the
wilderness waiting to be heard. Politicians
listen to your people, all of your people – woke up !
Off my soapbox now – but I
seriously worry about this world of ours.
Discuss?
