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- Entry for 22 February 2007
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Hello People:
English Retrospective Revision of history.
Introduction.
With the culmination and affect of the Acts of Union which are known to have added to the constitutional grounds by which the formation of Britain as a nation took shape, amalgamations between English and Scottish Monarchies, as is pretty much well documented, are responsible for this development in history.
Since 1607, when James the 6th of Scotland was reigned in as James the 1st of England, after the sad death of Elizabeth the 1st, this event in itself begun a process of change in the character of the British Isles, under which I believe is one of the most historic and nucleic features held within the superfluity of our traits and qualities as patriots.
To come to understand how the swirling nature of unstable times, within the British Isles have undergone, reference to England’s pursuits on the world stage to begin with, would satisfactorily provide an explanation for the greater degree of antagonism. Even though the reflections on the chronologies of all countries carry a counter-accusational marker, especially before any reconciliation between peoples occur.
English History tends to have had the greater part of it’s atonement emerge under the banner of direct propagation and acquiescence; without inferring the recording of any such worse scenario, or the disregarding of the heights of ambition to the English strove, the growth in the projection of Englishness, as is quite familiar to many worldwide, is as it was said to be born through the conception and expression of, a positively international demure.
Trade and Commerce first became the lending-hands, bringing prosperity to these regions. Slavery I do not accept, could have been regarded as permissible, even at the height of it’s facilitation.
Socialisation processes inputted quite deeply within most respective colonial countries, where certainly a plethora of aspects belonging to Anglo-European culture were probably designed, as an attempt to Universalise the English language.
Perhaps, the purpose was even to ensure that fine translatable mechanisms of exchange would help foreign nationals to travel at some future point, plus to anticipate on the balance of probabilities, how the English language to any extent of formalism, might adapt and survive well inside further centuries.
Such a versatility and morphic quality to the English language has ensured that the distributive effect of Globalisation and original branding notions to Modernity, actively disrupting the market economy, have become successfully voluminous, thus as it appears easier, but thankfully not simple.
*The content to this entry, contain my own thoughts on the position and recognition (England as a country, forming 85% of the British land mass) now has during these times, in view of recalling past controversies when constructively remarking upon the place of Britain in today’s world.
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John.
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- Entry for 20 February 2007
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Hello people:
Watching and Listening to everything in the media today might send a lot of folk into a chronic state of anxiety, as the extent of available information open to all, can be relevant to you, and is also quite decipherable as not of interest if not.
Deciphering information: True from False; The Practical from the Technical, the Superficial to the more Concrete meaning to sense itself.
All of the inferences made through identifying, reconciling, and gain respect, end in the fashioning of a soul becoming more affirmed.
In recent time I have heard “as a held discussion on radio” the presenter talking people accessing websites actively promoting young women to pursue virtually starving themselves, for the sole purpose of conditions such as AnaRexia to become viewed as a form of lifestyle choice, people make like any other.
These sites encourage a person to adopt what eventually becomes a warped perception of self, as believing that a distorted body image put across by the media is something which modern and appropriate, is I can tell you a wholly wrong and damaging way to project concepts and celebrity.
Take care: and seek to live with stealth
John
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- Entry for 19 February 2007
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Hello People:
The Suitability of Western Culture as an export.
Introduction:
Following on the length of incidents reported of late on the deaths of three young people due to shootings, mostly in the South London area of the UK, as I myself have been keeping up on the coverage of this in recent days.
While mulling everything over in your mind, as everyone does, as own reflections you could say, match together the appropriations all people make, in the development of a good intuitious sense, my leanings in thought, are beginning to make me feel anxious towards being as certain and confident in knowing that the dynamics of Western Liberalism/Capitalism is particular of the right substance to be expounded somewhere else abroad.
With Britain being a strong Imperial Power predominately within the twentieth century, ruminates of the effects of Westernisation are perhaps significant here, particularly through the impressions by which the West is generally perceived.
As a hypothesis to reaching some measurable conclusion, one possible reason why the British or if preferred “the English” are thought to be adherents and defendants of Liberal Democratic Freedoms and Politics, is through held affiliations during periods of war over the last century.
Could it be said that without the assistance of the Americans at these junctions in history, consolidated isles such the British would have been less affected by an insurmountable association made with only some threadbare relevance to European Trans-Alantic relation.
I ask this because of a sense I have of an almost automatic nominative stereotyping that Britain seems to gain from supporting notions of Republican Egalitarian Politics, transcribed comparatively from the contextual nature of the Magna Carta, devised at Runnymede, England in 1215.
Has the authority of any description of the basis for law and order, so contained within the Magna Carta, as a country’s Parliamentary System of Governance, got any typical interconnection with a Continental group of states who are ascribed to exist only due to the occurrence of Civil War.
It is surprising to my mind, to have considered at this point in time, the overarching precipitations, intercessionary platitudes, and culturally laconic mannerisms, to which the Americans are seen to operate in their Uni-polar fashion, correlating so easily with the life and times of a country imbued with a past underscored by the linage of Kings and Queens. The glove does not seem to fit somehow.
As a purely theoretical principle, democratic values are very honourable. But there is always the real dilemma of when, in offering a means to restructuring a society along these inclusive lines, heavy overlaps of sectarianism can and does emerge.
The wiser option to successfully raising the profile of life in the Western Hemisphere, and not having our form of politics attacked from all sides, would be to promote the standing of Western Civic Life as primarily Secular and International in character.
Demoting constitutional ideas of Liberalism, basing each appeal by the legal extension towards granting rights, according to a person’s propensity for addiction, management of work/life balance and care, maintenance and custody.
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John.
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- Entry for 17 February 2007
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The Strength of Social Philosophy replacing Religion.
Introduction.
Inter-generationary has there ever been a progenial cultural shift witnessing young blood living without religion? The reason why I ask this is premised on the fact that, I am sure that with the acknowledgement on how religious thinking is integrated with state approval, the existence of Social Philosophy, standing also as statutory ethos holds water as a possible consideration.
For me no religious dogma has ever appealled to me directly, but what I have respectfully understood from learning about the nature of each, is the message carried within stressing the need for order, which correlates with the spatial formulation of the human psyche.
Through looking at the use and value of Psychometric testing, one obvious kernel of truth we
can grasp from this, is that their are neurological structures, and synaptic activity which accounts for, the driven building up of connective networks equipping the metaphysical stratas of the human personality for and with logical appitute.So far in the development of ourselves, the use of the term “human being” has failed to make any distinction of our imbued sapien qualities, seeing and in securing the constant disruption of any equilibrium throughout societies with the pressing for expansions in chronic expressions of liberalism, sexual symbolism, and economic depravation of regional areas, plus the restructuring and centralising of governments.
Given these circumstances I think it is appropriate to ask how we can as a global community can destabilise the growth of this centralising trend, operating within and between authorities, while wholly working towards creating a truly eugenic and technocratic society.
A certain degree of nostaligic dettachment is necessary in persuit of this state of affairs, ultimately removing the presentation of all other new generations from being trapped in a positional memorial malaise regressively hindering adaption to social change.
Political Economic should taught firmly as a National Cirriculum subject advancing a type of thinking to students towards helping them understand theories and policies which are designed to affect the operation and indeed the maintenance of the standing environment in which many differing cultural groups live.
Thank you.
John
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- Entry for 16 February 2007
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Hello People: I hope everything is well with you.
Last night I saw the film Blood Diamond, and with most films depicting something of the politics of Africa; a measure of unspeakable tragedy is mingled the small deposits of hope and value attached to life.
As for the reckoning of people to find stability in various regions of Africa, it appears to me that white Caucasians are at some loss, without having to regard the interruption by other parties espousing their own interests collaboratively.
Now I am very aware of the nature and the depth of insight a person should acquire, before being warranted to comment upon the experience of life in Africa. But with the UK as we find it at present, living in a multi-cultural society, where people of an African descent are attributed pretty solidly with a British Black identity, I believe a question over the differences between the cultures of British born , and Bantu-Speaking Africans can be justifiably asked.
Rastafarian identity is a fairly prominent feature within how Afro-Caribbeans are seemingly socialised and demonstrate a particular outward display to their self-awareness. Focusing on a myriad of elements concerning the position of the cross-over to their ethnicity, pride, resolution, logistical management, and response are always referred to in kind.
Everything word spoken about the plight of Africa and it’s indigenous people is vehemently atoned, under the banner of words such as “JUSTICE, AMELIORATION, RECONCILIATION AND RACIAL PRIDE.For most Europeans the position of Africa as a continent, and the general view of it’s people is very much badly placed as denagrative. To my mind within this globalised environment from which a lot of sociological changes occur, I for one expect the “African Dilemma” to be physically less of an issue for a generation shown rightly to be repulsed by the idea of colonialism and exploitation.
If most parts of the world are faced with the extents of emigration, we see at present, it is nothing unusual, to expect that migratary populations arrive from countries which are self-sustaining and it allowed to be transposed to another hemispere also show themselves to be independent and culturally astute.
In no way do I hope that the context of this entry to be fuelled by racist connotations. It is merely constructed in order to put thoughts on observations I have made over the last couple of years.
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John
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