Communitarianism

"Either you think – or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."
F. Scott Fitzgerald

An excellent article by Whig, on the Adam Smith Institute website, highlights how the 'voluntary' sector is being subsumed into the state as a voice of the state, thus enabling the continuance of social engineering to be accomplished.

According to Wikipedia "Communitarianism" is an ideology that maintains the responsibility of the individual is to their community, emphasizing the family unit. The European Union and politicians have usurped this and applied it in order to further their own ends - in other words they intend us to believe we are all one community and of one family and that our responsibility is to them and the state. We can call this communism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, or any other name you may wish to apply, but at the end of the day it boils to down to one word: 'control' - control of the people and their minds. Ian Parker-Joseph uses the term 'Marxism', a post in which he mentions Cameron's 'Big Society' idea, an idea that continues the subservience of volunteers in that each group of volunteers will have the 'assistance' of the government in the form of a minister or bureaucrat to 'guide' them.

The people of this country are in the process of being brainwashed to ask only those questions the political elite will allow and are, at the same time, being programmed to see every political decision as one that is unquestionably correct. This brainwashing, or social engineering, has now reached a stage where it appears that Britons are no longer able to see what is happening to them and their country.

As I have posted previously, the media are complicit in this process of brainwashing, or social engineering, because if the public does not receive all the information required for them to make an informed decision on any particular subject, it must follow that some form of news censorship is taking place. Whilst the media deliberately 'overlook' some news stories, or cover them superficially, others are covered to distraction - the latter which may be termed as 'junk news'.

That our governments both at home and abroad are making it a crime to have an opinion, limiting our freedom of action and choice, are themselves committing a crime- and it is about time that the people of this country exercised their right of making a citizen's arrest.

Just saying..................

Big Society or Bull S**t?

"When a man is on his own, an individual responsible for himself, he must earn a character - a personal character that is perhaps his first necessity. Others may then learn and imitate his qualities and capabilities. In a planned society he has no need of a character, for no such thing is wanted."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."
Sir Ernest Benn 

According to the website of the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) apparently the Big Society is the Government's vision of a society where individuals and communities have more power and responsibility, and use it to create better neighbourhoods and local services. It also states that David Cameron said that the people are the boss. The Big Society Network proclaims on its website that only 4 out of 10 of us believe we can influence local decisions; that only 1 in 33 of us attend public meetings; that anger and frustration is felt at the recent behaviour of both the City and Westminster and that we feel relatively powerless to change them. 

We are informed by the DCLG that dedicated teams of civil servants will be allocated to 'ease' the progress of any Big Society venture. An alternative - and realistic - take on this comes from Goodnight Vienna (Calling England) who states that it is:

".....about state-sponsored training of community volunteers and  "social entrepreneurs".  This isn't localism or power to the people, it's another layer of state-funded bureacracy and interference between the people and those whom they elect to govern.  It's a further distancing from the unelected and unreachable powers-that-be in Brussels.  It's Red Tories, the Third Way, Agenda 21 and communitarianism writ large."

In his speech today David Cameron stated that our society is broken and that we need to fix it; that he will not back down because the Big Society is here to stay. This begs the immediate question of who it was that broke our society in the first place with their premeditated ideas of social engineering - an ideology the Big Society seems determined to further?

If David Cameron really does believe the people are the boss, then will he - as a servant of the people - stop dictating to us how we are to live our lives? If he wishes to improve the ratio of people who believe they can influence local decisions then perhaps he will really devolve the responsibility for areas such as health, education and law & order to local communities - which would serve to concentrate local councillor's minds and make them 'earn their keep', whilst at the same time energising the people's interest in politics.

The Big Society is presented as 'bottom-up' government when it is, in reality, continuance of the present 'top-down' system of government. As Goodnight Vienna states, if Cameron has his way we will all be in this together and with a Common Purpose as the overriding factor!