When Ash Wednesday is Valentines day. The first day of Lent. I think if
the Lent to come from the consequences of Brexit. We are becoming a
narrower inward looking UK. There is a closing of so many minds. We fail
to understand the European culture that we stem from. We fail to
understand that our Magna Carta in 1215 was imposed by French Knights
and the Glorius Revolution of 1688 by a Dutch army. I and many like me
feel this closing of the mind in the implications of Brexit.
It's felt psychologically and in ontological experience. I see closed
minds coming forward and mocking learning and perceptions.
There is a
narrowness circulating through the xenophobic society that Brexit he
normalised.its almost an existential crisis that closes the books, mocks
the thinkers and reduces those who love Europe, it's thoughts, it's
history and links to the brutally reductive word " remoaners". All of
that learning from the classical world through the Renaissance and on to
the Enlightenment, through the wisdom of Freud, Sartre and the
existentialist reduced to one narrow brutal little word. The myth of
getting our country back is a short hand model for destruction and the
defence of the closed mind . The Hobgoblins that are the closed minds
Gove, IDS and Farage illustrate the point that knowledge is about jobs
and training and obedience and not thinking critically. This Brexit
island is a closed island , a septic carbuncle of prejudice and
certainty set in a sea of separation. A Casino economy of bargain
basement conservatism led by poundshop Powellites and perverse
bluekippers. Our minds are closed by them and books ate for display
purposes only. Each "snowflake feels this and each one is different but I
am afraid the closed minds that rule do not have the ability to see the
variety and difference. Each bluekipper and poundshop Powellite is
alike in the prejudices but each 'snowflake' unique and diffetent and
frequently unsure. Yes this is Ash Wednesday and marks the beginning of a
Lent that is spiritual, cultural; historical and psychological...books
are never for display purposes only but so many want tbem to be..
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