2.5.25 - Maypole #8

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Maypole #1

The Settlers

Louis Theroux with the most bo pian expression you will ever seen


Just a quick one here.

Throw down a marker, on this 2nd of May

I am starting to bin my notes which I have faithfully carried from class to class. They are pretty much useless now since I have much better notes and I never went back to see the notes which I had made. So many mistakes were made. It was foolish really. I know we could learn from mistakes, but we don't have to hold on to them.

We are dancing the maypole today. I may hand over the reigns after the next couple of sessions. If Cara wants them. I'm impressed she's stayed.

Watched The Settlers last night on TV. You know, at one point in time, the Jewish people could have had the same moral authority which the Irish wield today. The speaker outer of repression, the voice for the dispossessed. Many still do. Max Blumenthal, Katie Halper, Glen Grenwald, Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky - towering intellectuals. Those whose experience of their own culture and persecution have shaped their world view for a fairer, kinder planet. INSTEAD, the fucking British and French weaponised that pain and made them into their battering rams - pitted them against the people of the Levant and created this toxic state from which the suppurating wounds of thousands of years continues to fester and gangrenise the planet. And I mean the entirety of the planet.

If it wasn't so horrible, it is an object lesson in how abusers continue to abuse through their victims. The people who have gone to settle are clearly driven insane by the one prime directive - to survive at all costs. And all costs, includes doing what was done to them through the centuries. 

We too can become violent, fascist, cruel - this was done to us - this is what needs to be done to survive. As if the people of the Middle East haven't had enough done to them. As if.

Well, I should do now... I'll sort all the finance later today. I think we should be able to get money off the PFA...

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