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map_of_the_worldbut I'm not so time for some musing
So i was thinking that hardly anything makes me cry, I cry when I'm depressed to the point of exhaustion and then its the exhaustion that makes me cry, not the depression. I used to cry at college when stressing over my academic performance and I cry about politics and stuff that's going o in the world. I cried when George bush was reelected. I cried when the kidnappers released Alan Johnston. Stray says the r4eason I don't cry about my own life is because I'm emotionally retarded but I think we just care about different things.
I am getting my groove back politically. been doing some stuff for the feminist group today and I found out that half of rape crises centers face closure because of lack of government funding which makes me really angry and which we are going to do some campaigning about.
one of the reasons I've not been switched on to politics lately apart from the burn out funk I was is was because it got so grinding boring, same old, same old war, NHs is crap, people not being listened to Tony blurgh etc. and I am under no illusions that brown will be any better than Blair but he will be different.
And there is some interesting if infuriating stuff going on in the political home news. I don't know what the fuck the conservatives think they are doing but they aren't fooling anyone. i saw an interview with David Cameron on the politics show (which in all honesty is the sesame street of all current affairs shows but even) And he made me cringe the number of times he felt the need to say how many times his cabinet has the first muslim in it. Yeah I'm sure she enjoys being a poster girl.
And then Ian Duncan smith has done that report "breakdown Britain" or whatever its called. and they are doing the same old crap of blaming societies breakdown on single parent families. which the daily wail is loving obviously and there's a big thing about how married people should get tax breaks because bringing up a child when your married is better than bringing up a child when you aren't married. apparently more people who are cohabiting are likely to split up. But really that hardly means that being married is better or more healthy, often it is much more healthy for everyone involved including the kids if people walk away from a relationship that just isn't working. Fuck I wish my parents had got a divorce.
I thing being a single parent must be really hard but I don't think its bad, i just think we should live in a more child friendly society where everyone thought it was their responsibility to help raise children, instead of leaving it to one (or even two) separate individuals and really the fact we don't is the fault of mad greedy right wing individualistic capitalists.
I'm sure selling of council houses has significantly lowered the living standards of all those who were in the eligible group but aren't any more. And one of the reasons communities break down more here than in Europe is because we are forced to work longer hours and live in a culture where we are expected to own our own extremely overpriced houses.(apparently in most of Europe renting is the thing, it is much cheaper)
And really if you are worried about children, why give tax breaks to married people across the board, why not give tax breaks to couples who live together regardless of the legal status of that who have children.
And there seems to be the demonising of the actual kids that grow up in single parent families with "seventy percent of criminals come from single parent families" for fuck sake that's not because they are single parent families, its because they have no support, i want to know where they got those stats from anyway and weather there the equivalent of junk science.
Some moron in the independent (the independent not the daily Male for fucks sake!) said "[the report] will argue that the social and moral decay of the underclass is costing the rest of us £100bn a year. That does not include the fear and the heartache caused by the murders, rapes assaults nd burglaries committed by the feral products of the ill fare state (Bruce Anderson, who is this person? I have no idea) which is just horrible who judges what moral decay is anyway? and really talk about over blowing it, even the research is correct that kids from single parent families commit most crimes I bet in reality it is stupid shit like graffiti, and joy riding and stuff. obviously I'm not saying that kids from single parent families don't commit nasty crimes, but I don't believe they commit 70% of them and I don't think its being from a single parent family that causes them to do it. The people that raped me and beat me up etc were all middle aged, middle class men from affluent backgrounds, all married with well paying jobs so it wasn't being from a single parent family that caused them to be fuck wits. And I wonder if they took white collar crime into that survey, I bet they didn't. Also calling anyone an "underclass" just pisses me off, its so rude.
And there was this other thing somewhere about immigration eroding the British sense of christian identity. What does that even mean? of all the people I know only three are Christians and I think that only one would consider "christian" to be one of the main pillars of her identity (or maybe Petra would as well but shes not British shes Irish) Apparently 70% of British people consider themselves christian. No they don't! they just write that on questionnaires and surveys. pretty much anyone who got Christened and doesn't follow another religion or consider themselves a dyed in the wool atheist writes CofE (Church of England) in surveys and censuses. That doesn't make them christian for Christs sake. It just seems like another way to bash immigration and immigrants.
So i was thinking that hardly anything makes me cry, I cry when I'm depressed to the point of exhaustion and then its the exhaustion that makes me cry, not the depression. I used to cry at college when stressing over my academic performance and I cry about politics and stuff that's going o in the world. I cried when George bush was reelected. I cried when the kidnappers released Alan Johnston. Stray says the r4eason I don't cry about my own life is because I'm emotionally retarded but I think we just care about different things.
I am getting my groove back politically. been doing some stuff for the feminist group today and I found out that half of rape crises centers face closure because of lack of government funding which makes me really angry and which we are going to do some campaigning about.
one of the reasons I've not been switched on to politics lately apart from the burn out funk I was is was because it got so grinding boring, same old, same old war, NHs is crap, people not being listened to Tony blurgh etc. and I am under no illusions that brown will be any better than Blair but he will be different.
And there is some interesting if infuriating stuff going on in the political home news. I don't know what the fuck the conservatives think they are doing but they aren't fooling anyone. i saw an interview with David Cameron on the politics show (which in all honesty is the sesame street of all current affairs shows but even) And he made me cringe the number of times he felt the need to say how many times his cabinet has the first muslim in it. Yeah I'm sure she enjoys being a poster girl.
And then Ian Duncan smith has done that report "breakdown Britain" or whatever its called. and they are doing the same old crap of blaming societies breakdown on single parent families. which the daily wail is loving obviously and there's a big thing about how married people should get tax breaks because bringing up a child when your married is better than bringing up a child when you aren't married. apparently more people who are cohabiting are likely to split up. But really that hardly means that being married is better or more healthy, often it is much more healthy for everyone involved including the kids if people walk away from a relationship that just isn't working. Fuck I wish my parents had got a divorce.
I thing being a single parent must be really hard but I don't think its bad, i just think we should live in a more child friendly society where everyone thought it was their responsibility to help raise children, instead of leaving it to one (or even two) separate individuals and really the fact we don't is the fault of mad greedy right wing individualistic capitalists.
I'm sure selling of council houses has significantly lowered the living standards of all those who were in the eligible group but aren't any more. And one of the reasons communities break down more here than in Europe is because we are forced to work longer hours and live in a culture where we are expected to own our own extremely overpriced houses.(apparently in most of Europe renting is the thing, it is much cheaper)
And really if you are worried about children, why give tax breaks to married people across the board, why not give tax breaks to couples who live together regardless of the legal status of that who have children.
And there seems to be the demonising of the actual kids that grow up in single parent families with "seventy percent of criminals come from single parent families" for fuck sake that's not because they are single parent families, its because they have no support, i want to know where they got those stats from anyway and weather there the equivalent of junk science.
Some moron in the independent (the independent not the daily Male for fucks sake!) said "[the report] will argue that the social and moral decay of the underclass is costing the rest of us £100bn a year. That does not include the fear and the heartache caused by the murders, rapes assaults nd burglaries committed by the feral products of the ill fare state (Bruce Anderson, who is this person? I have no idea) which is just horrible who judges what moral decay is anyway? and really talk about over blowing it, even the research is correct that kids from single parent families commit most crimes I bet in reality it is stupid shit like graffiti, and joy riding and stuff. obviously I'm not saying that kids from single parent families don't commit nasty crimes, but I don't believe they commit 70% of them and I don't think its being from a single parent family that causes them to do it. The people that raped me and beat me up etc were all middle aged, middle class men from affluent backgrounds, all married with well paying jobs so it wasn't being from a single parent family that caused them to be fuck wits. And I wonder if they took white collar crime into that survey, I bet they didn't. Also calling anyone an "underclass" just pisses me off, its so rude.
And there was this other thing somewhere about immigration eroding the British sense of christian identity. What does that even mean? of all the people I know only three are Christians and I think that only one would consider "christian" to be one of the main pillars of her identity (or maybe Petra would as well but shes not British shes Irish) Apparently 70% of British people consider themselves christian. No they don't! they just write that on questionnaires and surveys. pretty much anyone who got Christened and doesn't follow another religion or consider themselves a dyed in the wool atheist writes CofE (Church of England) in surveys and censuses. That doesn't make them christian for Christs sake. It just seems like another way to bash immigration and immigrants.
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Date: 2007-07-10 02:03 am (UTC)it does seem strange reading about 'the underclass'! what is that?
not just white collar crime and the shit you went through but what about the general greed of the already rich. i have met so many rich criminals in my time. and why do 'they' always blame the poor (underclass)?
greed and power (the basis of capitalism) are the main reasons i think but maybe also with the belief you deserve you should get what you want