The Talking Gardens Of The USA

Americans and their garden signage are a curious thing..

You walk past these talking houses and you see placards telling you “Black lives matter” , ” Gay rights ” , ” Trans rights”
“Equality for women” …” I’m with jesus ”
and , for the goths ” I worship the devil ” ( this one is helpful as you know off the (flying) bat ..That lot are gonna be possibly over weight and certainly somewhat braindead )…. You get Xmas decor , Halloween decor , “Welcome to spring ” and ” I love Autumn ” bows.

You get the persons voting preference and pop culture choices as garage stickers …Their gate fittings,at times, tell you about their pets and they leave books to browse, borrow or keep ..They even leave take away philosophy quotes and homemade poems

In short the American garden is a social media post before social media was invented

 

Cancel House

“Cancel Culter ” is a culture born of the modern “Left”

Its a movement derived from self-appointed tastemakers deciding what fits in with their moral/ethical belief systems.

These systems, these days are packed and labelled as “Woke”. They are essentially based on well-meaning but abstract idea’s that used to only be found birthed, breathing and dead on the college campus.

“Woke”, used to be a student phase, like listening to Devo, watching Dogme 95 cinema, having bi-sexual threesomes, thinking wearing a shirt with the buttons done up the wrong way makes you eccentric, wearing an Ironic T-shirt means you are rebellious and thinking everyone in the world must know you are “Pansexual, actually”- even though you don’t know what it means and are really just “ambidextrous “

These idea’s never could stand toe to toe with the reality of the “real world” ..Thus, they were thrown away within the first day of leaving University (along with henna hair dye, army jackets with slogans written on them with marker pen, Manic Street Preacher’s and John Grant merchandise and the books of Martin Aimless…I mean Martin Amis.

That was the old world, at least …In the new world, over the last 10 years, the rules of the campus became the guiding hand of the media.

Twitter, FB, Reddit and 4chain created an audience for extremes. The “kettling” effect of modern algorithms pushed each tribe into a cyber reality that only reflected their own idea’s of reality. Isolation breeds distortion.

The right-wing became a more extreme version of itself, the left became a more extreme version of itself … So extreme in some ways, it’s now more fascist than the actual right

These days “woke” is the mainstream and if you don’t want to subscribe you are “Cancelled”. ’cause you see there is no sense in modern life.

Surely, a movement that seeks to “cancel” art, is fascist by very nature?

The worst thing is, often the cancelling isn’t even done for moral reasons, the outcry is usually just from some “journalist ” or blogger, trying to make their name by ruining another’s- an old trick, that the modern call “Trolling”

The hunter aims to kill it’s prey, with accusations of lack of virtue. Whether there is no lack is here nor there.

Its all click to the bait

America In Forward Motion

So, who would have thought it, America a land that was once so scared of the feminine male it invented the Marlboro Man and John Wayne – though after much homo appropriation those two now seem as camp as Richard Simmons sock collection – has now, at last,at last, at last  made gay marriage legal..Ireland lead the way and America followed. Still the USA are the first super power to make such a move and that is no small thing, it really is a historic moment and  America should be VERY proud of itself….

It seems as England moves backward, America keeps its “New World” promise and moves the everyday  forward – Take that Vladimir Putin, you cretin!

Celebrate the change, enjoy the moment – though please, don’t say “I’m grateful” say “About time”

The light is love, the light is hope, the dark forces may try to stop it BUT they can’t, they merely cause a delay.