I sat here at my computer yesterday wondering what I could write, in fact wondering if I could be bothered to write particularly with the way I've been feeling over the last few weeks. Then it kind of struck me, you know one of those Eureka moments, so I thought I'd better jot it down, You know for posterity and all that.
We have forgotten the nature of truth, we have forgotten how to believe and we have forgotten how to hope.
Now today whilst I write this on my bed my young son is writing out his Santa list. Yes I know it is July but he's ten years old and has just finished school for the summer holidays so by nature he is already bored, and of course Christmas starts in about two weeks. He's not put a lot on it but he's written this wonderful heart wrenching piece about how he's been bullied this year, and how he doesn't want a lot but these things will help him feel better.
Now how does that fit in with what is in bold type?
As a ten year old he is now learning about disappointment and how frail the human psyche can be. People whom he thought were his friends are clearly not his friends, As an adult it is easy for me to spot these parasites, for that is what they really are using his good nature so that they may abuse what he has then move on, but for my son well that is not quite the case.
Yet it his is absolute belief in Santa that made me realise that hope is what we are missing in our lives.
This whole murky world that has been dragged up before our eyes in the News of the World hacking scandal is something that in reality we have known about for years. If it's not the State spying on us it is business and if it's not business it's the press. So where is the hope?
I watched a television programme recently about the Bader-Meinhoff Gang and something that was called the Red Army Faction and it reminded me to look to history. Throughout civilisation there has been a constant desire for a few to dominate many and from time to time that backfires and some anti-establishment group pops it's head above the water only to be shot down. Ultimately though the system comes along and everything is normalised again.
This is sheer nonsense. We are all involved in a game that ultimately means there will be winners and losers. We live in so called civilisation but we play games because as Orwell so deftly put it "All pigs are equal but some pigs are more equal than others". Sure we need structure just look at what happens to bees if they lose their hive structure, but maybe that is the point.
Is the reason that bees have started to die out because they have given up hope and belief?
I can hear you laughing already, Trace the madman is back again. Bees? have hope? have belief ? those are human qualities stop talking hippy nonsense and stop taking the LSD.
I can assure you that I am no more sane or insane than the next person in line for if I have swallowed the pill that is one far more potent than LSD, it is the pill of mediocrity. Average Joe's like myself are the simple workers in the hive whilst the Murdoch's are the Queen's and they must survive.
If we give up on this system for it is all we really know then like the bees that suffer from colony disorder our civilisation is bound to fail.
Our civilisation will only fail if we give up hope and belief.
And so we must weed out the truth, however unpleasant it is, we must burn out the rot that has taken hold at the top to allow for new growth at the roots. And before anyone says it I am not talking armed insurrection. We have to give our children back what so clearly we have lost. We have to give them back Santa, we have to give them back something to believe in and something to hope for.
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