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A superior brand of urban myth

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Even a brief survey of the UK political and media landscape leads to various conclusions, but there are two linked and unmissable aspects –

Imbecility – the UK has a major problem with influential stupidity. 
Intransigence – the UK has a major problem with influential blockheads.

Influential imbecility is not a few wrong moves which could be corrected, it is an intransigent shift towards what appears to be a significantly lower level of intelligence within governing classes, institutions and professions. It is not new and not restricted to the UK.

One possible route down the rabbit hole is fashionable elite conversation. However fanciful or absurd they may be, some memes seem to become particularly fashionable, rather like a superior brand of urban myth. Some myths have clearly evolved into official policy, perhaps because elite thinking must remain on a higher plane – or private jet to be more materialistic.

It is as if an important social censor has been degraded – the censor which should detect stupidity within influential social contexts. Not a surprising conclusion unfortunately, influential stupidity has always been a problem.

Yet something may have moderated influential stupidity in the past, and an aspect of that moderation could have been a sense of place, of physical belonging, an essential stake in what works and has worked in the past, socially and culturally.

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of the earth, for the labours men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amid the future widening of knowledge: a spot where the definiteness of early memories may be inwrought with affection, and kindly acquaintance with all neighbours, even to the dogs and donkeys, may spread not by sentimental effort and reflection, but as a sweet habit of the blood.

George Eliot – Daniel Deronda (1976)

Perhaps this is it and always was. Those who would rule our lives should be well rooted in some spot of native land. Maybe an international, globalist outlook hinders a grounded viewpoint because those who could easily be elsewhere are in a sense nowhere and not suited to rule anywhere.


Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-superior-brand-of-urban-myth.html


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