Back To The Beginning 7: The Least Cunning Fox

Abused dildo and professional outrage merchant, Laurence Fox, is pretending to run for London Mayor. He has no policies nor political experience - which no doubt endears him further to those that fear the spectre that is 'woke'. He has a political party as well, based on 'freedom', which is to say the freedom to expose yourself and others to a potentially deadly/debilitating disease. Needless to say, he's a con artist, whether he knows it or not. What he's selling is a lie and my concern is who is funding him. Who is fronting the money no doubt required to stand for high office. I doubt I could afford it, even if I was a nobody actor with a penchant for singing badly (that I can do!).

Realise taht people like this, rising now from the fertile febrile soil of late stage capitalism, are not interested in your wellbeing. This is a grift. There is no doubt dark money behind Fox, just as there is behind other troublemakers and psyche-botherers, for example Farage or Stephen Yaxley Lennon. In fact Farage has just decided to stand down, again. He'll return; he's as consistent as an Ozzy Osbourne farewell tour. Their act is one of permanent heckling, where they sit on the periphery. free from responsibility, all the more able to criticise while offering no solutions. No skin in the game, yet funded by god knows whom.

Fox won't win. He's an idiot. He isn't even very good at the 'free speech' grift, where he rocks up across the mainstream media. Given a voice that you and I will never know, all just to complain about how he (and by extension straight white men) is the real victim. It's false of course. This is just the voice of aggrieved privilege; a status quo afraid of challenge, of losing its power. For this to be a concern would require a justification for that privilege. Meanwhile the real victims of that privilege are the minority representatives, BAME LGBTQ+ etc, who face daily oppression from the cohort Fox wishes to defend. Of course to go along with this he has a funding stream; a patreon you can subscribe to. You can join and make yourself feel special while in reality being fleeced.

It is sad that this is happening. It is worrying that these are the times in which we live. A postfactual state of affairs. It doesn't matter what is real, it matters how you feel. Not simply in the trite reductionist 'facts don't' care about your feelings' motif (beloved of people like Fox), but in the sense of basing our views on evidence. Feelings are important. No one who is a victim of structural oppression would disagree, it would be inhuman to deny that part of ourselves. We are not machines. However it is not real to argue that while people are the most oppressed minority just because you feel it to be true, or because a chance encounter with, for example, a Muslim challenged your assumptions about social hegemony. This is reactionary politics and it must be deconstructed because it is based on a lie.