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!NiK[‘19]

A while back in one of my blogs I referred to the “Amiable Rotter” of Greyfriers/Billy Bunter notoriety. The Rotter [for the confused: I refer to el Boris the new “Ruler” of England] won then and has won again. This time with the biggest majority in a generation: he is the Lion King for the moment.

It was almost inevitable… even though no media that I followed, predicted such a landslide… At best it would, many hoped, be another hung parliament. The part of the [so-called] Left called Labour, overestimated their tame fodder’s preference for a full-on post-Marxist style confiscation of things; and its rump resolved on getting a job done, in place of fancy chat shows signifying: literally NO THING….

And so the amiable rotter has pulled the biggest electoral heist in recent memory… in fact in more than a generation. He has separated the Precariat* from the historical Working class.

The significance of what is and has happened is still being processed and even denied by the populace. And of course: it may easily turn into hell on earth.

But what if it doesn’t? The Alchemist famously said that which happens once may never happen again but that which happens twice will almost certainly happen a third time. Leave won twice.

Now: full disclosure. I do not live in the UK and was/am firmly a Remainer. I did not think that the … English had it in them to go for the moon, while free bread was on offer. I was wrong… perhaps. So since I am a democrat one must accept that the majority want to move on… hoping that it turns out ok. But it’s like leaving home when, you’ve grown up… not easy… Must be done.

So: The next fifty years may be humanity’s last fifty years as an organised entity…. Well for a while anyway. If the emerging new world is to survive it needs to move forward into the future as it is unfolding: not rush off in pursuit of a Luddite past.

Seemingly; everything about this “Amiable Rotter” suggest that he has a vision of himself as the megalith giant of the 21st century… The man who renewed prosperity. And so I salute him as a man of practical purpose… Who may have a breadth OF VISION that is palpable.

Thus far he reveals someone whose destiny does not relate to renewing the mortgage every five years. He is however concerned with being remembered, a thousand years from now… Most excellent fellow: if that is true. There hasn’t been a different candidate who better deserved the job… Well maybe the comedian who grabbed Ukraine and created a modern reality show called the Impeachment’s Charade… But. That is another tale.

Boris has captured this emerging Precariat* class for the moment. Labour has to realise its historical hegemony amongst the broad proletariat has been fatally undermined… and so far their loss has simply been seen as a clumsy error.

At a fundamental level the goals of the old/new [non?] Working class and Professor Standing’s emerging “Precariat” are in opposition: one, the latter, being aspirational: the other, those who actually voted Labour: support seeking and/or radical left type revolutionary. Boris has an epoch changing opportunity. (I would also humbly suggest that sustaining his winning formula should include UBI.]

Aah. So to close this summer blog from a place feeling the edges of climate shifts… Jozi northwest central…. My home in my own private forest in Afrika… six kms from the financial heart of same: Afrika. Let me hope you all had a wonderful festive season and look toward a great 2020 and… As I write this, missiles have rained down on random runways in Iraq: and President Tsunami pauses his finger on the Tweeter button…. Which gives me a fun lead into what I call the “Impeach Tsunami” Misdirektion of the year… ….

Those who have frequented my pages may know that I set out in March last year to write a XrappZi a day, for the rest of the year. The year finished with about 375 of the 22 syllable poems in five lines each. [See above opener for those who may be confused for a moment.]

So to close the year I’ve chosen to feed you some of my favourites, for reasons that may now seem obvious. The one up front [about which I have just reminded you] commented on Boris’ amazing victory. The cluster that follows below were all written, during the same seven-day period this year following the event described in the first two stanzas…. So I joined them up… Because they treased me at the time… And given the [US] Democrats apparent reluctance to pursue their first round sucker punch … perhaps I have touched a nerve… You choose.

Here it is: Enjoy: XrappZi J# 16-20

Ex[s]tinktionRulz
WhatGoes
UpMayNever
ComeDownForSuchWas
TheStateOfATeenageFrown
MostCurt.

Greta
ThunbergCriedOut
HowDareYouPutEx[s]tink
TionOnPauseTalkOfFairyTales!
Money!

SheSpoke
TheyTrembledThen
KnowingThereWasNoGo
IngBackTooManyMouthsWanting
MoreFood.

SoThey
CalledForMis
DirektionImpeachTsu
NamiDistraktNoiseHowDareWe
DrownOut.

“TwoThings
OnlyThePeo
PleDesireBreadAndCir
Cus[s]esRepublikGoneEmpire’s
NoMore”*.

!NiK[19]
• With thanks to Juvenal who wrote the closing stanza [more or less] 2000 plus, years ago.
Join us as we discover the start of what may, for a time, be the “roaring twenties” revisited: and hopefully not the kind of roaring Australia is presently experincing. .
Loves you all
!NiK
• Precariat/Prekariat: Amongst a diffuse body of work Professor Guy Standing of University of London published The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, also called a Transformative class. Boris has captured this class for the moment. Labour has to realise its historical hegemony amongst the broad proletariat has been fatally undermined.

?Blog 18 Feb 2018: Introducing the Prekariat.

I heard a new word a few days back; and heard it in such a way that the poet in me merged with the political economist: and I had immediately to find out what it meant. And it was in none of my dictionaries… that are admittedly now all somewhat elderly, like their owner.

In context I had been following one of the many talks on business strategy that feed through on YouTube; and the relevant file ended while I was consolidating my notes. As you probably know, unless you hit a cancel button within a few seconds the auto shift takes over and an algorithm that has decided what your interests are, opens another, relatively random file, and that happened while I was distracted…

So there was a load of chatter in the background of my awareness and suddenly an authoritative voice, that was so confidently assertive it caught my attention, announced to the world that it was imminently: “Off to Brussels to represent “The Prekariat”.

WTF I thought … am I suddenly in a Sci-Fi channel movie… Or, back with something as weird as the Annunaki? What is “The Prekariat” that it required such an authoritative delivery, of something previously unknown… and found it not in my dictionaries?

What I discovered when I eventually Googled the word, was at once: diskoncerting, satisfying and fascinating.

Most satisfying was the discovery that I was not alone.

Diskoncerting was the realization that this company, I was now apparently keeping, is on an escalating growth curve. So I will inevitably have more and more friends, and how will we all live?

And how will we all live is the single most important question to be answered over the next half century… and either we are already working on this with all seriousness… or is the reason why the person who coined the term Prekariat describes our kolektive emergence as being potentially extremely dangerous.

This word appeared on my journey to indicate why I felt that those people who think of themselves as “Liberals” are staring heavily at what the Chinese call a “Grey Rhino”. And broadly that Grey Rhino was the discovery that again piqued my fascination.

Assuming you haven’t hit the Google ‘word check’ button…. and are still intrigued, curious or maybe even indifferent to what this “new” word Prekariat means… it refers to a condition that is precarious… i.e.: lacks positive prediktability or security… a condition that on an economic level, to which its ‘coiner’ [sic] applies it, dramatically affects material and psychological welfare of the Prekariatee [sic] [Me in this instance… You maybe… One who exists prekariously in a financial sense.].

So what does all this mean, what does it have to do with Liberalism’s alleged shortcomings and how does this knowledge affect your thinking going forward… since forward is the only way our time machine allows us to go?

To be continued…. in our next: blog of blogs.

Loves ya all.

Nicholas.

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