Theres a few threads about Britain lately, and just for the record Britain is in parts an amazing place.
But as a society youve been there and done it.
You've scaled the Empirical heights and now you are on the down side. Its only natural. You are a small country with big expectations, warm beer, crap weather and big chips on your shoulders.
Your stuck with the tedium of being overtaken by progress. You spread the seed of the western world and you gave it its morality and its language. English.
Boss language that and we thank you, but you know when things get old and they need to move aside? Thats whats happening to you now. Sad but true. Ive seen Little Britain and I know youre really like that. What you've become. Why British guys are always the villians.
Ben Eltons on the TV over here at the moment and never a truer symbol for Britain cultural cringe has there ever been.
Young and rebellious, a beacon of free thinking radical utopia and the push out of the Thatcher driven society. Now older and fatter and addicted to suckling the teet of commercialism till the milk is dry. Born of an authoritarian standards longing to break the vice grip of rule, now lounging, blighted, long forgotten of the fight and breeding the next generation all holding out their hands wanton of the wealth they never worked hard to hold. Maybe not, maybe he's just too old and wealthy to care. The wealth your fore-bearers never dreamed; happy just to raise children in peace, or torn by war to understanding the fundamentals of a simple existence now invades all our souls.
Society needs to experience the hardships to respect them, and that's where we are, circa 2009. Ripe to be overtaken by those who respect it more.
And no LCAB, I havent been smoking!