Refuel

We all of course spend most of our time nowadays from morning till night warring in the midst of an ideological battleground, of good versus evil, light versus dark - though it might get a bit confusing at times as to which is which and who is who. For instance someone we might have been endlessly told was demented turns out to be kind of good, and someone supposedly good turns out to have dementia. 

But occasionally you have to take a break from all this battling, whatever side you’re on, or you end up just exhausting yourself and with nothing left to give, except that is for perhaps repeating idiotic slogans as quickly as possible regardless of the situation. “Climate change is racism!” That’s the kind of thing you might even end up coming out with as things get confused and you crash and burn. You’d look a right fool. ... Though then again, who knows, you might be applauded for it. You may even be considered to have taken things up into new heights with this act of intellectual fusion created when your brain was running on empty. 

You become, as it turns out, the flavour of the month, a focal point for liberation - at least that is until someone else perhaps comes out and surpasses you with some offshoot like “Climate change is transphobic! Get vaccinated!” And all attention sadly leaves you. Bitter would be the taste. And it’s not as if you couldn’t have come up with that yourself, but you alas were too busy basking in the glory, and inspiration went elsewhere.

But anyway, like I said, we can’t just keep battling on fruitfully unless we pause and refuel every now and again. Otherwise our contributions may be too weak to do justice to the cause.

*** Just in case, out of interest, someone had beat me to the punch with some of the above ideological brilliance I did a quick internet search which, amongst other results, yielded the following from The Guardian way back in 2016 - that deeply ethical newspaper generously funded by amongst others the lovely Bill Gates, and whose editor has in editorial print bowed down and exalted George Soros as the most wondrous man imaginable:

Climate change is a racist crisis: that’s why Black Lives Matter closed an airport

Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert

This article is more than 4 years old

Today’s BLM protest at London City airport makes perfect sense: whether it’s via air pollution or police detention, race inequality is alive and kicking in Britain.

* * I would only pollute the waters if I endeavoured to add to such mighty words of grace and beauty, and to add, whilst I didn’t read the rest of the article, I’m sure it was amazing. I must admit I was a bit undecided about the whole Climate Change agenda, but now that I realise how bound up with racist abuse it all is, as revealed by the Marxist BLM group, I’m fully on board. The environmental catastrophe side of things I can take or leave, but racism is a big no no for me.