So, yesterday I was angry, today I’m antsy. I want to do something.
Society in the UK, and elsewhere, is under attack from those who would wish it destroyed. But this isn’t some attack from outside. It’s not extremists and fundamentalists (of any stripe) attacking it. No; this is a sneaky and subtle disintegration of society from the inside by individuals who would have control over me, you, and everyone else.
People who understand that community, trust, friendship and family are things that make them weak and societies strong. People who are scared of losing power because the people have new ways to communicate, new ways to meet and organise, new ways to find each other.
People who don’t just want to maintain the status quo, but who want more control, who want deep and oppressive laws which reach into the very fibre of your every-day existence. Who want you to not trust anyone, not friends, not family, certainly not neighbours, and not your community. Who want you to assume that that which you do not understand must be hostile.
And to do this they must spread fear.
They must spread hate.
I think this has to stop. I think that if society in the UK is to survive it must stop. Now.
But I don’t know how to do that yet. I want ideas, anything that will help us build up communities, develop trust, remind people that that which is different and which we don’t understand does not have to be feared.
We need to transform this fear and repression into something positive, and now is the time to start.
