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I was reading Dominic Cummings blog over the weekend, as one does - probably closest thing to a single mind coordinating this crisis right now. He is clearly driven to change what you quote in the last sentence, the total disbelief and cynism in politics because nothing works (Whitehall institutionally and genetically incompetent), and our last four or five primeminsters have done essentially nothing serious in 25 years for the strategic direction of the UK (e.g. Cameron privately not wanting a majority because it would mean having to do something meaningful with policy).A passage from Paul Mason's article today in the Guardian on thre mindset required for this mess to happen:
"I don’t want to encourage paranoia, but as a mental exercise ask yourself: if there was a single mind coordinating this crisis, what would it be thinking now?
First, that the fragility of the unwritten constitution is a proven fact. If parliament can be prorogued once, it can be prorogued again.
Second, that parts of the British media have no stomach for the task of actively defending the rule of law and the principle of accountability.
Third, that an atmosphere of weariness is descending on the mass of people. They were already weary of Brexit and are now getting weary of endless headlines about a constitutional crisis that never seems to end.
In the 1930s, the psychologist Erich Fromm noted that the ideal conditions for the rise of dictators and autocrats was a “state of inner tiredness and resignation”, which he attributed to the pace of life in stressed, industrialised societies.
Among the German working class, Fromm observed “a deep feeling of resignation, of disbelief in their leaders, of doubt about the value of any kind of political organization and political activity … deep within themselves many had given up any hope in the effectiveness of political action”.
Chaos is being normalised. It is all part of Boris Johnson’s pernicious plan | Paul Mason
The prime minister has deliberately brought darkness to our democracy and to our streets. We must resist, says writer and broadcaster Paul Masonwww.theguardian.com
The fact that Cummings is so influenced by science, mathematics and technology thinking to change this is extremely unusual - and hard to relate to what he is actually doing in his role right now, which just seems like alehouse political streetfighting.
[unusual in the sense that prob a lot of people have these sort of futurist blogs but most of them aren't special advisor to the leader of a major industrial nation].
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