The UK is currently going through one of its periodic political crises when the powers that be decide to swap one of their indentured servants for another in the hope that the public's dissatisfaction with its controllers will be ameliorated and everyone can start looking forward to a bright new future when everything will be different. It's one of those occasions when tragedy and comedy are hard to prise apart.
When will we learn that nothing can be changed for the better by politics or social action or anything that people actually do? Perhaps at one time that was not the case but it certainly is now. The state of our Western civilisation has reached the point at which everything external has been corrupted and anyone who climbs to the top of the greasy pole will have had to compromise their soul in some way or another. No exceptions. As I always say, this is not a counsel of despair or a reason to do nothing. It simply means that the source of the rot is spiritual and the remedy must also be spiritual first and foremost before anything else can change. If the root of the problem is not addressed than nothing will change and things will continue to decay.
Therefore we must ignore what goes on at the edge of the circle. We must return to the centre for only then will external issues start to correct themselves. Changing yourself is the most radical political action you can take. Not your ideas, though those too, but your very self which must be reoriented to God.
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Well said. Despite the mass media's positive and negative propaganda; outside of the infintitely-manipulateable managerial/ intellectual middle classes - I don't know many people who expect anything but incompetence and lies from any Prime Minister nowadays. The Big problem is that people have not grasped that "democracy" and the political system cannot possibly - and therefore will not - deliver anything but more of the same.
Nor do many recognize and accept that this is not merely a problem of a minority of evil leaders corrupting a majority of basically-decent people; but that the problem is very general indeed.
This problem ranges from people's basic beliefs about reality (as purposeless, meaningless, wholly material etc) - to their aims for life going no further or higher than a "barnyard morality" (i.e. suitable for cattle, pigs and hens on a farm) of prosperity, comfort, convenience, amusement etc.
In such a situation of generalized and institutional corruption it is only at the centre of the circles, i.e. starting with ourselves, that we can find what we most need.
If the people were not corrupt themselves or at least somewhat so then the leaders would not be so bad.
Political drama is a machine crafted to harvest your outrage then sell you a new illusion of pointless hope-gas.
Clarity begins when you stop feeding the political drama machine harvester your emotion fuel.
Democracy killed Jesus.
"Clarity begins when you stop feeding the political drama machine harvester your emotion fuel." That is correct. The system wants your attention as it validates the illusion that you can do something about it and distracts you from what is real.
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