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Well let’s see. Right now they’re working on a new anti-encryption bill to chase tech industry away from Britain. That’s right after they withdrew from a huge t
by api 3y ago
Well let’s see. Right now they’re working on a new anti-encryption bill to chase tech industry away from Britain. That’s right after they withdrew from a huge trading bloc.
- gabereiser 3y agoMake Britain Great Again is going so well… Nationalist views are a nostalgia for “the good ol days” prior to globalization of the economy. Problem is, you can’t go back. If you do, you do what psychologists call “regression”. You’re witnessing this first hand with Britain.
- Finnucane 3y agoApparently the “good olde dayes” of Elizabeth I.
- gabereiser 3y agoI believe you missed a “ye” in there somewhere.
- api 3y agoI see signs that China, juggernaut of globalism, is starting to flounder due to its own Emperor Xi Xinpeng style of make China CCP again nationalism.
- realjhol 3y agoNo, you are confusing things together, because you believe in Whig Historiography. In reality, most of the west is declining due to bad ideas and the rejection of good ideas that our people once held. To return to ideas and traditions would not be to go back in time - noone can do that, rather to reinvent, to rejuvenate, and revive the good ideas of the past in the context of the present.
- gabereiser 3y agoNo, what you just said is confusing. You can’t take good ideas from the past and apply them to the present. Times have changed. The situation is different now. We need new ideas, new philosophies, new approaches, to the new problems we face today. To return to whatever golden years you are referring to is a return to the dark ages, no matter how noble your intent. What we need is for people to stop wishing for golden years and make these years golden. You aren’t going to do that with 1950s thinking. We need 2050 thinking.
- realjhol 3y agoWell a positive vision for the future would be some new ideological synthesis for Britain. It would involve remixing the good parts of 1950s thinking and learning the lessons from the things that have gone wrong in more recent decades. For example, in the 1950s people would have been appalled by the idea of mass immigration. In 2023, it is at the root of many of the UK's most significant problems: the housing crisis, the collapsing NHS, the destruction of the high trust society, the shattering of British identity into dozens of cultural enclaves. There is no honourable way to undo the mass immigration that has already happened. However, we can radically reduce it. At the current immigration rate, it is simply impossible for the rate of cultural integration to keep pace with the the rate of influx. At vastly reduced rates of immigration, our society would have space amd time to forge a new British identity. We have made choices that have proven themselves destructive, but it's not too late to revisit those mistakes, and then build anew from the ashes of the current decade.
- gabereiser 3y agoIt’s not just a British problem. Climate change, war, population growth, all play a factor. America and “The Wall”. Britain and the “mass refugee immigration”. Italy and theirs, Greece, the list goes on. People want to live, in security, and prosperity for their children and in some places of the world that’s not possible. So they migrate, immigrate, or become refugees of a war that only makes sense in the nonsensical. I’m not saying there aren’t problems, there are, but to put up walls and restrict humans and deny empathy is not the answer.