Ignore Them And They'll Go Away
Feb. 2nd, 2023 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloA British Chancellor of the Exchequer gets sacked for tax evasion. He was known to be a bit dodgy but the man who appointed him is still Prime Minister- or, at least, he was the last time I checked.
I don't follow politics as closely as I did. Once you've realised the whole show's a masquerade concealing (or these days barely concealing) rottenness you don't need to know the details.
Also the more attention you give to those in power the more you validate them.
Ignore them and they'll go away? Well, why not? But we have to really ignore them- along with all their mandates, their dictats, their propaganda...
And simultaneously create our own local networks, sharing power, building from below.
I don't follow politics as closely as I did. Once you've realised the whole show's a masquerade concealing (or these days barely concealing) rottenness you don't need to know the details.
Also the more attention you give to those in power the more you validate them.
Ignore them and they'll go away? Well, why not? But we have to really ignore them- along with all their mandates, their dictats, their propaganda...
And simultaneously create our own local networks, sharing power, building from below.
