The Middle-Class English Ninny
We were down on the Lizard peninsula and went for a walk to Church Cove.
The church is St Wynwallow, founded by a Breton saint in around 600 AD. It is ‘a place of peace and quiet away from the business of life.’ There is a concession to religion once a month when Evensong is held.
There he hangs, the man who summed up the whole library of Jewish religious teaching in two sentences: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.’”
A little further down the hill towards the roaring water was a house made open for a Ukrainian display. Compare the iconography:
Jesus is worshipped in various Orthodox denominations in Ukraine but the Kiev regime banned the Russian version last year and the Russian language the year before. The brave journalist Eva Bartlett details the war crimes committed for years against Russian heritage civilians in the Donbass.
Other than Peter Hitchens, few in the mainstream British media make plain what has gone on in Ukraine and why.
So it is not surprising that there is a house in a hip Devon town whose owner put the old yellow-and-blue in the window to show they were on the right side of History (that fictitious god of the Marxists.)
Later they replaced it with a Palestinian flag.
Only the middle class can be that stupid. They take on an idea given them by the official governmental propaganda machine and will then defend it against all comers, including facts and logic.
If we must deplore democracy it is not because of the less educated but on account of gullible, bloodthirsty, bourgeois English ninnies.
(Photos: author.)
In America, things got worse with the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012. The government thought that this huge propaganda machine, used to sway opinions in foreign countries, would be wonderful to use on us. And fake news became more mainstream.
This is sadly true: "Only the middle class can be that stupid. They take on an idea given them by the official governmental propaganda machine and will then defend it against all comers, including facts and logic."
However, it wasn't always thus. I suggest this is another horrible relic from the covid years - remember the clapping for 'Our NHS' and the hearts and rainbows painted and scrawled everywhere? That was taught - and the middle classes are now applying it everywhere.