Think before you post. https://t.co/sgqCErb4AC
— GOV.UK (@GOVUK) August 8, 2024
Since we're all officially admonished to THINK (which used to be the IBM corporate slogan, IIRC, long before it became a verbal bludgeon of Britain's police bigwigs) let's spare a thought for the UK's lower-class sort that is the target of all this oppressive Nanny-Statism.
What do you suppose they're thinking? And might it be a massive load of anger and resentment directed squarely at their 'betters'?
But baby (Baby)Remember (Remember)It's my life and I'll do what I wantIt's my mind and I'll think what I want- It's My Life (1965), Eric Burdon and The Animals
Eric Burdon had the best male voice in '60s pop music, if you ask me. And his best songs had a working class edge that, if you further ask me, the British need to recover today more than ever before.
Check out the opening lyric: It's a hard world to get a break in / all the good things have been taken.
Does that not speak to the Brits we've seen pushing back at the national leaders who are hosting all the illegal entrants they can find while arresting Brits for speaking out about it on line?
There is a long and storied tradition of Anglo-Saxon rowdyism which is triggered by unfair treatment, and it doesn't take much imagination to see such treatment happening all over the UK today.
So the top of UK society warns the lower class to THINK before they speak, or else face vaguely sinister "consequences." Well, once the lowers have thought about it long enough, the uppers just might see that threat blow up in their faces.
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My contribution: https://youtu.be/iZExWt-bj-k?si=sCic3xHadg_K3gu9
Whoa! That is some swingin' 60s stuff going on there. I especially like the go-go girls, but have to take a few points away for their not wearing those knee-high go-go boots like the Hulabaloo girls did.
Ok. How about this: https://youtu.be/JaaT_HRb4GU?si=r1-tEDtYRAeu2tdn
Skep,
Quit going to Georgia!
Georgia? I went to the former Soviet Republic of Georgia back in the day, and liked it. As for the state of Georgia, I last was there years ago for a business trip to the CDC, and have driven through it, but never found a reason to spend time there.
That Santana video reminded me why they were called "world music" pioneers (along with Brazil 66), but very long sets like that are probably better if you're stoned. The sitar guy, Ravi Sankar, drove me up the wall whenever a concert would be interrupted by his 45-minute or longer monotonous strumming away, and I'm SURE that guy made sense only to the very heavily stoned.
I was teasing about Georgia, ever get to Tblisi?
Oh yes, back in the 1990s when it was recently independent. Also Yerevan, which I enjoyed quite a bit. In those days they assumed any American visitor must be an Armenian-American (who were indeed all over the place at the time) so they greeted you like long lost family.
We're you "seen"?
Seen in Georgia and Armenia? I was seen as a visiting Gringo, I think.
Available in the back of multiple paperbacks the " How not to be seen" course.
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