Chapter 26 in the serialisation of the book 'Insurrection' 4th book in the 'Corpalism' series

26

This is the culture you're raising your kids in, don't be surprised if it blows up in your face
Marilyn Manson

The Preacher was reminiscing, "When I was young, after school I would play out with my friends. We'd play football, or war. I remember my mother cooking bangers and mash, steak and kidney pie, chops, liver, stew with dumplings, we always had a pudding that involved custard and at weekends we had a roast."

He started to pace, "I remember music from the time, Beatles, Stones, Queen, Led Zep, Lizzy and I remember feeling English. Even though I had a sense of what Britishness is, I still felt English and I had a great pride in my country, in my parents and my grandparents and what they achieved in both world wars. I remember reading about the Empire with even greater pride. When I recall these things I feel a sense of being comforted in a blanket, secure and familiar."

He paused, then continued, "When we are young we are moulded by the world that surrounds us and for me that world is the smell of home cooking, the sound of kids running and laughing through the streets, and I get a great warmth in my heart when I think of it. It is the period that moulded me and involved family, community, socialising with my neighbours, going to the local shop, a relationship with the streets round where I lived. For me it represents England." There were a few nods from the audience, and a few audible sniffles, "I would imagine it was much the same for the Hitler Youth."

Barry felt the atmosphere change in that second.

The Preacher noticed nothing, "They would have been moulded by the events of their youth and would find modern Germany abhorrent. Even if they rejected everything that Hitler and the Nazis stood for they would not be able to shake that sense of home, of comfort when they think of those times or when they smell a familiar smell. That's the way of things," he said, firmly, looking out into his audience, "the undeniable truth, we humans are moulded by events that occur in our youth, by the world that surrounds us."

He placed his hands behind his back and paced, "So what effect did Maggie's world have on the youth of the 90s and what effect is our current world having on today's youth?"

He gave them a moment then continued, "In the 90s it was all about the drive for profit over people, looking after number one, greed. It saw the birth of the new elite; the super model, the celebrity footballer, the consumer culture. It also heralded the collapse of the nuclear family, social integrity, social unity, the church. The collapse of everything that makes us civilised."

He paused, then spoke again, "Which is why young people today are unable to form lasting relationships; because they have been ingrained with the concept of self. Why people today are obsessed with the lottery; their only goal in life is to be mega rich. Why youngsters fill up their bags with cheap products that they know were made in sweat shop conditions; because nothing in their youth taught them respect for others and they have no empathy.
Why, in the midst of a riot, people are less interested in expressing demands for social change than in looting; because their education did not include social awareness but was instead bent on self-aggrandisement. It is why those who are lucky enough to have work look with disdain at the unemployed, the weak, the homeless who beg in the streets; because they were told in their youth to despise those who couldn't help themselves, told that all beggars are frauds who live in big houses or those on benefits are getting a huge whack for free whilst they have to strive. All of which is why society is crumbling."

After a brief pause he continued, "Consider, if this is how the working-age youth view things, what are our young children becoming? What are they being taught in school? Are they allowed to be English in this day and age when everywhere accusations of racism are being flung about and when, if you go by the adverts on TV, you could be forgiven for thinking that white English people are now in the minority. Are they aware of our history and encouraged to understand its context? Are they allowed original thought? Or are they being mass-produced like the Hitler Youth to serve the messages up to their parents about racism, green issues, homophobia and date stamps on food as if it's mandatory, and not up for discussion?"

His pace quickened as he patrolled the stage, "We must ask ourselves, where did this pressure to deconstruct England originate? Where did this desire to destroy English culture come from? Who initiated it and why have successive Governments propounded it?" He raised his hands, "Why are they trying to eliminate the English race? Why are they trying to pretend that the White Anglo Saxon doesn't exist? Why are they hell bent on writing the British Empire out of history? Why are they destroying the bonds that held us together for nearly five hundred years?"

He waited for an answer but there was none forthcoming, although there were plenty of glum faces, "Because the rich no longer need us, they have their new cheap labour force, in the third world. We are excess to requirements."

He grabbed a bottle of water and took a long drink, then continued, "Quick history lesson, we had the Yom Kippur War 1973, the Arabs attacked Israel, six days later it was all over and the Israelis had won.
The west backed Israel and the Eastern block backed the Arabs. In revenge for their defeat OPEC put up the price of oil and created an artificial reduction in supply, a pending reality the experts have termed as Peak Oil. Here in Britain we had the three day week under Heath, power cuts, rising unemployment and a rise in union strikes. This all culminated in the Prime Minister, Jim Callaghan going cap in hand to the IMF."

He glared out at his audience, "Now I ask you, what lessons did the government learn from this experience? They learned that if ever there was another energy crisis our society would be in trouble, we would have strikes, power cuts, riots and a general social leaning towards communism. This would be intolerable to the British Right wing and to the Americans who, believe me, are always meddling in our affairs."

He pointed to various people in the first few rows, "They had to ensure that by the time Peak Oil became a reality we were no longer socially cohesive, that we had lost our collective sense of ourselves. Thus, through the intervening years they have been deconstructing our social unity, they have been denying Britishness to the extent that they are planning the break up of the UK. Eventually we will be nothing more than a few small weak countries stationed off the coast of Europe, meanwhile the rich will still be rich for they will continue to receive their tax free off-shored dividends from the companies they've been setting up in the Third world."

He strode to the front of the stage, "We are weak now because we are divided and have become anti-social; we are willing to buy things from high street shops when we know their supply chain uses child slave labour, we don't care about our neighbour any more, hell, we don't even look after our own parents. We shove them into old people’s homes to be looked after by East Europeans who don't give a rat's arse about them, they might even bear a grudge against them for something that might've happened in WWII, who knows, but the thing is we don't care. We don't care how many old people die in the winter from cold because we resent them their winter fuel allowance, we resent them their pensions, we resent them their homes and their money. We demand that they sell their homes to pay for their care in their dotage yet when it's our parents we kick up a fuss because we might lose our inheritance."

There was a lot of shuffling in the audience, a few people stood as if planning to walk out but they were grumbled at and promptly sat down again.

"The truth is, they have splintered us, they have shattered our society so that they can better control us when prices rise and wages drop, so they can maintain their own station in life whilst we suffer when the world's fuel crisis hits, and it will hit, it's here with us now and they have seen how dangerous it will be for their world, for the world of the rich. The Occupy movement reminded them what cohesion can do, the Independents tried and were squashed before they had a chance. The powers that be fear what the people can do if they gather and move as one and they will not allow this to happen."

"How do you boil a frog?" he demanded, and then answered his own question, "slowly."

Cheers

Arun







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