Are we losing our grip?
Recent events, the stabbings in Glasgow, incidents at Bournemouth on the corona-crowded beaches, trouble with more heavy handed policing in the city. I wonder how much more our socity can take. Is the collective unconsciousness screaming for release? Something soon will have to give, but unfortunately because of the catastrophic failure of the Tories to manage this crisis it could manifest a very ugly way. People won't want to go back into lockdown; that could lead to riots.
Last night the local scamps and scalawags were out, as they are a lot now, in the fields. Up till 1am making noise. Obviously it's not the first time kids have make noise while I'm trying to sleep - and it won't be the last. But, along with the increased prevalence of litter and mess, I'm getting a sense they are beginning to struggle with this. I would hope their parents can take charge. This is not the time for what otherwise would be youthful exuberance. Things are different at the moment. You just can't behave like this.
I fear our society is not coping. I suspect, even considering the heatwave, the beaches would have been slightly else busy on a normal summer day. The local spokesplonker tried to blame it on the fact everywhere else was shut so people could only hang out on the beach. What alternative would she have preferred I wonder? Virus in the penny arcade? Covid stick of rock?
Any viral fallout from the Disease Dunkirk of the last couple of days will lead to more class division. An excuse to blame the working class for being characteristically stupid and ignorant. Even the Daily Mail, having spent the last 3 months berating the lockdown, has taken a derisory view to the beach goers. This isn't because they care about the virus. It's because they are offended by "louts". It's the new "hoodie"; another working class bogeyman to sell to the shirefolk that read their rubbish.
In truth the working class, as with austerity, are hit the hardest by the pandemic. Simply because they have less leverage: smaller incomes, less savings, than the ruling rich. They have fewer options and less tolerance for the vicissitudes of the period. While I certainly deplore their behaviour, it has to be taken in context. As much as I despise being kept awake on a hot night by shouty kids, they are the manifestation of a deeper problem. They want to express themselves, they want to get out of an oppressive situation, and this is how it will happen. The Tories have given and will continue to give, no answers. They do not, and cannot, understand.
I am sensing a falling apart. Lockdown has already cracked. It ended a month ago when the Prime Moron adopted the confused "stay alert" approach, and then his selfish narcissist adviser drained the government of any moral credibility whatsoever. That could have been dealt with decisively but doing so would have crippled the PM. Now they are as thieves, as we can see from Boris' refusal to sack his corrupt housing minister, having been caught red handed. Their arrogance spits in our face and infects us with the grubby saliva. They fiddle we burn.
Something is going to give.
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