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The working class are not ‘Woke,’ which is supposed to be ‘alert to injustice,’ on account of the fact that they don’t need to be, having experienced much more discrimination and unfairness throughout the course of their lives than could reasonably be expected of the middle classes.
The average working-class man and woman of the United Kingdom knows more about injustice than any Guardian journalist or upper middle class woke campaigner, the daily grind of experience is a much more proficient teacher than any university lecturer who insists for example that gender is a spectrum. Working class men know all about working class women and the reverse is also true and whilst most are liberal enough not to care should someone they know wish to transition from one to the other, they do understand that wearing a dress and makeup does not make one a woman and neither does surgically removing breasts and donning a shirt and tie make one a man. Reality is what ever it is and can’t be changed by wishful thinking.
What most of the great and the good, the rank and phyle of the establishment don’t ever seem to understand is that the common folk of the British Isles are wed to reality in a way that their superiors (by virtue of rank alone) don’t seem to understand taking the hard knocks without complaint as and when they come.
They take it on the chin when the best job goes to an inferior candidate who may have darker skin or a disability. They also take it on the chin when their leaders describe them as unproductive after they’ve experienced a hard week working for minimal wages in a dead-end job. They take it on the chin when bus services can’t be relied upon and when train tickets cost more than a nights hotel accommodation. They also take it on the chin when the costs of beer, cigarettes and petrol are increased in the government’s budget statement year in, year out. They take it on the chin when prices of essentials shoot up like a rocket in response to a sudden crisis only to fall like a feather when the emergency is over, should they fall at all. They take it on the chin when their son or daughter comes home in a body bag from some foreign theatre of war that they no interest in, the people of which they have no grievance against. Finally, they take it on the chin when politicians lie to them.
What most of the great and good, the rank and phyle of the establishment don’t ever seem to understand is that the working classes take a great deal of comfort in the ideal of a predictable tomorrow. Should every day be the same and tomorrow remain certain the government is considered to be good, if this isn’t the case then the regime is considered bad. The working classes have had a tough time of it throughout the centuries and value stability above all other things. The job of government is to provide steadiness at home first and foremost, yet despite this we have seen during the last forty years or so a succession of British governments that care little for the needs of the people who voted them in, showing them nothing but contempt by repeatedly breaching the social contract in order to create an ever-improving global climate for big business. Whilst it is true that we live on one planet, made ever smaller by advanced technology working class problems are always local, so why is that people we elect keep on choosing global solutions that see working class jobs being sent to China, India and Vietnam? One answer as frequently pointed out by lots of social commentators, philosophers and anti-establishment figures is the resounding success of the Marxist march through the institutions that have seemingly put us in a position in which every arm of the state has been taken over by its enemies making its behaviour instantly explainable as eloquently pointed out by Robert Conquest:
“The behaviour of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.”
But this is not the correct answer, it’s a symptom of our times to be sure, but during the latter half of the 20th century and into the present we’ve witnessed a phenomenal growth in communication technologies, allowing information to reverberate around the world at the speed of light. Money travels at the speed of information because it has become information, virtual bits and bytes in computer systems that aren’t backed by anything tangible such as gold, silver, oil or natural gas and so on, but instead are deemed to be valuable by the will of the markets, the group think of speculators and various movers and shakers all around the world, making money and the value of currency a type of religion that we all go along with. It’s for the benefit of this latter group of global citizens that our government works hard to create stability for, making speculators, bankers and brokers their secret constituency. These are the people that our Members of Parliament, ministers of state and civil servants work for, putting the needs of the global economy ahead of the needs of the people who they’d promised to serve in return for their vote. Is it because they think that global solutions will eventually benefit the little folk of the shires? That money will trickle down from the top to the bottom when history tells us otherwise. I’m sure that’s some justification, but is it true?
Rich people are particularly good at holding on to money, which is why they are rich, poor people usually don’t have enough money to hang on to and are forced to spend what little they have in order to get by. A poor person’s money always flows upstream like wild salmon leaping over every hurdle it can until it get into the hands of the elite, at which point it stays there, free to swim forever in a damned off portion of the global money supply that is constantly expanding in size at the expense of all other things. Is it because our leaders are unhappy with their public salaries that they betray us so readily, that they use their influence to get part time yet lucrative positions on company boards? Do they wish to climb out of government and into globalism in the same way that a town councillor might wish to become an MP? Do they instinctively recognise a hierarchy whenever they see one and demand that they be at the top of it? The nation state has become too small for them so they wish like Alexander the Great to rule the world?
“My son ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee”
— Philip II of Macedon
Is this the final answer? The Will to Power, the brainchild of Nietzsche, the striving and restless will to dominance found in all living things that continuously desires expression. When the will is repressed sadness, despondency and pessimistic nihilism is the result, when successfully discharged happiness follows. The Will to Power is not a zero-sum game, there’s always winners and losers in the battles commenced by the Will to Power, one cannot successfully discharge one’s will into the outside world without cost to someone or something else.
“…do you want a name for this world? A solution for all of its riddles? A light for you, too, you best-concealed, strongest, most intrepid, most midnightly men?— This world is the will to power—and nothing besides! And you yourselves are also this will to power—and nothing besides!” – Friedrich Nietzsche
This is why the working classes are so despondent, angry and resentful of their representatives and civil servants, because once elected they direct all of their energies to either pleasing the globalists in the most sycophantic way possible or suppressing the genuine grievances of the working classes because they get in the way of the Will to Power that demands of them that they be king of the World and not just sovereign of an isolated country, the inhabitants of which, just want to be left alone to pursue their own way of life in accordance with their own cultural traditions.
There’s only one way to discharge the will to power at no cost to something or someone else, and that is to turn it inward against the self. We might like Nietzsche, choose to hammer out our own morality by smashing apart values that do not serve us, dropping them like the dead weight that they seem to be. We might even sublimate the will by choosing to pursue virtue as espoused by the great thinkers of antiquity such as Aristotle who wrote extensively on the subject of ethics, when we seek to improve ourselves and to engage honourably with the people who put us where we are, to discover virtue and to pursue it relentlessly, is to be in the Nietzschean sense always overcoming, making yourself afresh, always striving, but never arriving, continuously growing in spirit. Good philosophy is always pursuit of the Will to Power turned inwards, self-improvement is a good outlet for the Will to Power as are artistic pursuits such as music, high art, poetry, writing, sculpture and so on, by doing so we put the will in a position where it can uplift all who encounter it.
Good politicians are few and far between, because the Will to Power is rarely combined with good ethics and a desire to serve the people justly. Very few of our leaders are schooled in philosophy, have an understanding of vice and virtue and a desire to serve their constituents consistently and honestly but when it is present the results are noticeable. Men and Women of good character emerge seemingly from nowhere to become Great leaders that the history books will never forget, just like Marcus Aurelius, the stoic and dutiful leader of the Roman Empire during the 2nd Century AD whose meditations or thoughts recorded on paper for his own use are still wildly read today remaining as relevant to our times as to his.
Marcus could have been like many of the other roman emperors, cruel and inhumane, delighting in the humiliation of enemies at court, he ruled by fiat, meaning that once an order was given he would have to have been done. He could have killed any person, took anything he wanted from anyone that he deemed fit, he could compel labour and order men to die for him in the most degrading ways whilst living a degenerate life, but he did not. Marcus pursued virtue, turned the Will to Power inward at himself, continuously pursued self-improvement and exercised restraint in all of his dealings with friends, foes, allies and enemies alike. He was a temperate man but could easily have been otherwise had it not been for his choice to pursue the philosophical life incorporating it into his duties.
So, we can see that the globalist project continues, that our leaders in fact answer to unseen forces and people beyond our borders and do so because they are relentlessly pursuing power, dominance and status thanks to the motivating factors of the Will to Power without the necessary philosophical insights to sublimate it by turning it against the self and in the service of others mistaking lines on a graph such as an increase in GDP for virtue and fiscal downturns for vice. They all desire to be the great men and women of history but none of them have the tools to do so, not like Marcus Aurelius, one of the greatest leaders of all time.
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
