So today is 50 years since the publication of the Beeching report that signaled the death of many a station and railway line in this country. It is also a warning to the future.
Beeching was wrong, the Government of the time was wrong, Governments since have been wrong. The railway network was a lifeblood to many small places throughout this Kingdom. Roads do not have the same arterial flow no matter what people may think. Roads are capillaries motorways are arteries and as it stands there are only a couple of dozen major arteries in the UK. The railways gave us hundreds if not thousands. Resorts like Brighton, Blackpool,Bournemouth, Torquay, Great Yarmouth, Margate and Southend would never have grown had it not been for the railways. Small villages became connected to major cities, people became free to move the country had life.
Why a lesson to the future?
Well for Beeching read Lansley, Hunt, Duncan-Smith, Gove, May, Cameron and Osborne and all those in Government today who would cut the lifeblood from our country.
The NHS is the next to go, it will soon be a monument to all that was great about Great Britain. I think Scotland may have the right idea get out while they can. I wouldn't blame Wales if they felt the same way because to be quite frank this bunch that rule our country would sell them off if they could.
I hear food vouchers have been mooted again by Count Ian von Bismarck instead of cash benefits. Why not just make people on benefits shave their heads and walk around with high vis jackets saying scum on the back because that is how people will treat them.
Don't believe it? I had a friend at school who received free school meals because his family couldn't afford to pay and word got round. I remember mothers at the school gates cackling about his family and how poor they were and how they resented that a child was being fed by free meals when they had to pay. It still rankles me today how people could do that to a child yet the same will give ten pounds to Comic Relief to relieve them of their guilt because that's a poor child in Africa.
I am telling you clearly the same will happen all over again.
It is time the good people of Britain stood up and stopped this country sleepwalking to an early grave. The middle class need to get over themselves because once the poor are gone who do you think is next !
Take a lesson from Beeching making cuts in the wrong place at the wrong time does not make the tree grow stronger It kills it!
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Education matters for more than a lifetime
I am an educator, a psychologist, a human being but most importantly a father.
Yesterday I became extremely concerned at the psychological state of my young son. He is eleven , nearly twelve so his hormones are starting to fly around his body in preparation for puberty and in many respects he is likely to be up and down at the moment. However his state of being yesterday was beyond the norm.
Now he has had several challenges with school and due to being physically attacked by a teaching assistant at the age of four and a half it took until Year 5 before he was integrated back into the schooling system. This is something I have blogged about previously so will not go any further into that here. What I would like to concentrate on is what has happened to cause yet more distress and what is turning a bright articulate child into someone who is again becoming disillusioned with the educational system.
He has already had challenges with his Spanish teacher, an old fashioned beat them around the head type teacher, and those were addressed with his head of house however I have now discovered that his Geograpy teacher, someone known for hating teaching Year 7, threatened in front of the class to break his thumbs.Now although I did not witness this my son is no liar and I have been in turmoil as how to proceed forward.
You see the Neanderthal in me wants to take this guy out and show him that force will be met by greater force but the psycholgist and teacher in me tells me that that is not the right way to handle things. I know the higher brain functions will kick in and override my Neanderthal yet I don't want to be seen as a neurotic parent or a grass of any kind because I am neither of these things. Something clearly has to be done though for not only the sake of my son but because of other children too.
My first concern is that the school will deflect the issue, my second concern is that the teacher will target my son but my overriding concern is that my son is missing out on his education. And that is ultimately what this is all about. The schools in the Trowbridge area are all pretty poor. They may fool OFSTED but I am a parent who is also an experienced teacher and I know how you can fool the inspectors as I've seen it happen time and time again in many establishments. The tick box culture that we live in is all about perceived accountability not about education and it belittles the learning process at all ages.
Learning is a human right and should not be interfered with by outdated ideas in what is right and wrong about teaching. Teaching is something that evolves as the human species evolves, as the need to learn different skills evolves, or so it should be. Good teachers are often destroyed by a system that allows bad teachers to get away with bad practice. For it is the bad teachers that cause the child, or adult, to resent the need for learning. The good teachers then often have an impossible task of turning around the learner so as to empower the individual into loving the learning process all over again. And I say all over again because inately we are a species that wants to learn from the moment we have a nervous system and higher function.
So what will I do? I'm not entirely sure still. I have been reflecting on the challenge all through the night and deep into this morning which I why I decided to blog in the hope it would clarify my mind set. I know I have to speak to the school and I know I have to support my son. The trick is to make sure that there is a win win scenario for everyone involved.
Including the Neanderthal who still thinks he is a teacher
Yesterday I became extremely concerned at the psychological state of my young son. He is eleven , nearly twelve so his hormones are starting to fly around his body in preparation for puberty and in many respects he is likely to be up and down at the moment. However his state of being yesterday was beyond the norm.
Now he has had several challenges with school and due to being physically attacked by a teaching assistant at the age of four and a half it took until Year 5 before he was integrated back into the schooling system. This is something I have blogged about previously so will not go any further into that here. What I would like to concentrate on is what has happened to cause yet more distress and what is turning a bright articulate child into someone who is again becoming disillusioned with the educational system.
He has already had challenges with his Spanish teacher, an old fashioned beat them around the head type teacher, and those were addressed with his head of house however I have now discovered that his Geograpy teacher, someone known for hating teaching Year 7, threatened in front of the class to break his thumbs.Now although I did not witness this my son is no liar and I have been in turmoil as how to proceed forward.
You see the Neanderthal in me wants to take this guy out and show him that force will be met by greater force but the psycholgist and teacher in me tells me that that is not the right way to handle things. I know the higher brain functions will kick in and override my Neanderthal yet I don't want to be seen as a neurotic parent or a grass of any kind because I am neither of these things. Something clearly has to be done though for not only the sake of my son but because of other children too.
My first concern is that the school will deflect the issue, my second concern is that the teacher will target my son but my overriding concern is that my son is missing out on his education. And that is ultimately what this is all about. The schools in the Trowbridge area are all pretty poor. They may fool OFSTED but I am a parent who is also an experienced teacher and I know how you can fool the inspectors as I've seen it happen time and time again in many establishments. The tick box culture that we live in is all about perceived accountability not about education and it belittles the learning process at all ages.
Learning is a human right and should not be interfered with by outdated ideas in what is right and wrong about teaching. Teaching is something that evolves as the human species evolves, as the need to learn different skills evolves, or so it should be. Good teachers are often destroyed by a system that allows bad teachers to get away with bad practice. For it is the bad teachers that cause the child, or adult, to resent the need for learning. The good teachers then often have an impossible task of turning around the learner so as to empower the individual into loving the learning process all over again. And I say all over again because inately we are a species that wants to learn from the moment we have a nervous system and higher function.
So what will I do? I'm not entirely sure still. I have been reflecting on the challenge all through the night and deep into this morning which I why I decided to blog in the hope it would clarify my mind set. I know I have to speak to the school and I know I have to support my son. The trick is to make sure that there is a win win scenario for everyone involved.
Including the Neanderthal who still thinks he is a teacher
Sunday, 10 March 2013
Of painful recollections
Mother's Day is always difficult for me. That's something I may have said before yet I feel I need to say it again and again until I come to terms with why it is difficult for me.
You see Mother's Day is the day I lost my dad. He died whilst I held him and it still hurts. Obviously today wasn't the exact day he died however it is the day that will always remember him dying. I miss him, really do. Not the nasty drunken dad that made mine and other people's lives hell, but the gentle caring man that was there when my youngest son held his hand on our final New Years Eve together.
For those of you who read my other blog http://alcoholdebate.blogspot.co.uk/ you know how much my father's drinking has influenced my life and how I have challenged many of the preconceptions about alcohol and alcoholism however my father did so much more for me than he will ever know. And of course so did my mother who also is no longer with us. In fact I am the oldest surviving member of my family the Patriarch as so to speak.
As parents they did the best they could for me. I see that now as a father myself. They had many faults, both of them, but they did have good qualities that are often forgotten especially because people remember the bad days. I hope that my children will come to realise over time that I have many faults but I have always done the very best for them that I could at all times. My children you see mean the world to me. I have watched them grow into young adults and my youngest grow into a confident young boy and I m so proud of everything that they do. I will always support them the best that I can and to the best of my ability no matter what they may do in life. I hope though that they understand that above all though that I love them.
Now some may say I'm being a sentimental fool talking like this but know that I never really connected with my parents the way that I think they hoped I would. I was always struggling with my over possessive mother, particularly when I started having girlfriends, heck she actively sought to play one off against the next at times. I remember when I was at Liverpool and my parents came to visit one day my mother said to my the girlfriend Zara, I'm so glad that he's got you, yet behind the scenes just as with Karen before, she was trying to engineer the relationship to fail. I mean what kind of mother doesn't want her son to be happy? When I eventually married (neither of the above I may add) there was constant pressure on me from my mother and constant sniping about my wife (although in the end that was the one that my mother probably called right). It was inevitable that we would fall out in time I guess. But not being with her when she died was a moment that I'm not sure I can ever forgive myself for even though it was 23 years ago this year. I should have been there rather than a hotel room in Dorchester where I was staying for the night because of work.
I will always love my parents for they were my parents and for what they helped me become. I will not make the same mistakes they made with me with my children I hope, just probably different ones. And I hope in years to come that they will forgive me for I am only human
You see Mother's Day is the day I lost my dad. He died whilst I held him and it still hurts. Obviously today wasn't the exact day he died however it is the day that will always remember him dying. I miss him, really do. Not the nasty drunken dad that made mine and other people's lives hell, but the gentle caring man that was there when my youngest son held his hand on our final New Years Eve together.
For those of you who read my other blog http://alcoholdebate.blogspot.co.uk/ you know how much my father's drinking has influenced my life and how I have challenged many of the preconceptions about alcohol and alcoholism however my father did so much more for me than he will ever know. And of course so did my mother who also is no longer with us. In fact I am the oldest surviving member of my family the Patriarch as so to speak.
As parents they did the best they could for me. I see that now as a father myself. They had many faults, both of them, but they did have good qualities that are often forgotten especially because people remember the bad days. I hope that my children will come to realise over time that I have many faults but I have always done the very best for them that I could at all times. My children you see mean the world to me. I have watched them grow into young adults and my youngest grow into a confident young boy and I m so proud of everything that they do. I will always support them the best that I can and to the best of my ability no matter what they may do in life. I hope though that they understand that above all though that I love them.
Now some may say I'm being a sentimental fool talking like this but know that I never really connected with my parents the way that I think they hoped I would. I was always struggling with my over possessive mother, particularly when I started having girlfriends, heck she actively sought to play one off against the next at times. I remember when I was at Liverpool and my parents came to visit one day my mother said to my the girlfriend Zara, I'm so glad that he's got you, yet behind the scenes just as with Karen before, she was trying to engineer the relationship to fail. I mean what kind of mother doesn't want her son to be happy? When I eventually married (neither of the above I may add) there was constant pressure on me from my mother and constant sniping about my wife (although in the end that was the one that my mother probably called right). It was inevitable that we would fall out in time I guess. But not being with her when she died was a moment that I'm not sure I can ever forgive myself for even though it was 23 years ago this year. I should have been there rather than a hotel room in Dorchester where I was staying for the night because of work.
I will always love my parents for they were my parents and for what they helped me become. I will not make the same mistakes they made with me with my children I hope, just probably different ones. And I hope in years to come that they will forgive me for I am only human
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Musing from a spotless mind
To mark my 15000 tweet I said that I would blog and the title of that blog was suggested by one of my tweefriends (Is there such a word? I don't know but there is now!) The challenge was what would I muse on?
So after some serious thought I've decided to look at several things that are doing the rounds at the moment. After all blogging is about recording moments in time as well as feeling rather self satisfied because you have actually sat down and put pen to paper (or rather finger tip to keyboard).
Magna Carta, is that some kind of ice cream?
In 1215 at a place called Runnymede King John signed a piece of paper that would enshrine some fundamental rights to our people
"No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseized of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land."
In 1642 Parliament and the King declared war upon each other because the King had decided that he was above the law of the land. It led to the end of the Monarchy as Britain had known it since pre-Norman times. It was the largest single realignment of power in this country since Harold had his eye put out. It was effectively a changing of the guard and a strike for democracy and the rule of the people and their representatives.
In 1939 this country stood alone against a tyrant that would bring the world to the edge of collapse. Once again we stood for freedom. And throughout my childhood there was constant fear of nuclear attack because we again were at the front of the war for democracy.
And now in 2013 we roll back to 1215 pre-Magna Carta. Why? The use of secret courts.
This government, as the previous one would like that our dirty linen not be washed in public. It would like that we Joe Public were not aware of the nasty little things that go on behind closed doors in the name of national security. Or better put in yours and my name!
The idea of bringing in secret courts is as abhorrent to this commentator as it should be to every free man, woman and child in this country who cherishes democracy. It should be condemned to history like the rack, the Spanish Inquisition and the gallows.
We rally against Syria, Iran and North Korea for their total disregard to their citizens yet are we any better?
We are supposedly a democracy and we are supposedly free. How can that be when the State is seeking to deny us of knowledge or of a fair trial? That is no better than dictatorship and isn't that what we fight so readily against? So are we heading for another Civil War? I hope not and I would not suggest ever taking arms up against a democratically elected body. However if we are fundamentally going to change the whole focus of our Justice system surely we the public have a right to our point of view don't we?
This is serious folks it could easily be you in the dock and these powers make it virtually impossible for you to fight against.
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=20659
The Death of an Icon
The National Health Service is one of the greatest icons that the world has ever seen in a drive for civilisation. It is a proud achievement that a country as small as the United Kingdom could lead the way in how we look after our sick and needy. And today it is headed by a man who will not resign even though he admitted he was complicit in the deaths of hundreds through neglect. It's a bit like welcoming back Josef Mengele and saying run our children's homes for us Herr Doktor.
Why won't the new Nazi's in power do anything about this? Is it because they are in cahoots with Nicholson? ( I no longer use the phrase Sir David because a knight should have honour) Does he know something that we don't?
And you may think that I am being disparaging by referring to Cameron et al. as being the equivalent of that heinous regime the Third Reich however all evidence is to the contrary at the moment. Sick and disabled are being maligned, rights are being eroded and the NHS something they swore to protect has been effectively put up for sale to the highest bidder. And when people die then those responsible get to keep their jobs and smile into their pensions.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-privatisation-plan-stopped-health-1734326
The NHS may not be perfect and it can be improved but do you really want to be wondering if you will be able to afford medical treatment should the need arise? Block this now and prevent the greatest travesty of our generation taking place. Defend the NHS, defend the right to healthcare.
I'm only being human
The Home Secretary has decided along with the other members of the coven that run our country that we will pull out of the Human Rights Act.
Now I can understand why people hate the Human Rights Act when it allows certain individuals to preach hate however there are fundamental rights that we all have that should be respected regardless and this Home Secretary would have us in sack cloth and ashes again
True democracy is defending the right of someone to say something that you would disagree with and vehemently oppose with your last breath.
And if we kill the Human Rights Act what if a new Marx or Engels came forward would we be able to hear their views or would be restricted by the State to what is good for us?
Sorry did I hear you say Goebbels or was that No Balls?
Suffer the little children
As an educationalist I am concerned that the propaganda that is been spouted about raising standards is really all about return to Victorian brainwashing. It is intrinsically a move made by Government, any Government who wants to be seen to appealing to worried parents about children getting on in life.
Watch this short video from Sir Ken Robinson and RSA animations. Maybe it will challenge your thought process about how we learn and why we are controlled in that learning.
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_changing_education_paradigms.html
Gove is an education minister that doesn't understand learning and how to make a better future for all of us. We can't predict what will happen in 5 years now yet we are educating children with methods that are hundreds of years old for a future in 60 years. How can we possibly know that that will work? Even Einstein or Hawking could not be classed as that clever!
Change the Paradigms improve the possibilities
It's tough up North
Rebecca Meredith is regarded as on of the top 20 public speakers in the world apparently yet the Cambridge student came in for a right ear bashing up in Glasgow
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2288148/Cambridge-debating-stars-left-tears-sexist-heckles-looks-prestigious-student-competition.html
Now Miss Meredith you really need to develop a tougher skin. Glasgow is a tough audience, even the fleas on the rats have bodyguards up there. I know I've lectured up there they don't take prisoners. The thing is though if you really are as skilled as your write ups suggest then surely you wouldn't run off stage crying at the heckles of a man who had obviously left his guide dog at home. And he must have been blind because let's face it you are pretty and you are good looking. I've debated in Varsity championships and have won may a trophy in years gone by but remembering one debate in Liverpool in the 80's I recall what Austin Mitchell said about following Matthew Parris.
" I feel like a cross between a man with herpes and HIV, an incurable romantic"
Now I didn't like Austin Mitchell but he enthralled me by that speech and he changed my mind about him. The secret to surviving a heckling audience is to either turn them round in your favour or buy a book called
Stand Up Put Downs by Rufus Hound
There's one or two good ways of shutting up idiots in the audience that way. Even shuts up the odd hardened Glasweigian.
And Finally
There's a phrase that has become close to my heart and something of a catchphrase to me particularly on twitter. And the reason for that? Well I just hate it when there is trouble and strife about and want to make sure I leave people with a positive thought.
So to end this blog just remember
Live your life with passion and above all........
peace and happiness to you all
So after some serious thought I've decided to look at several things that are doing the rounds at the moment. After all blogging is about recording moments in time as well as feeling rather self satisfied because you have actually sat down and put pen to paper (or rather finger tip to keyboard).
Magna Carta, is that some kind of ice cream?
In 1215 at a place called Runnymede King John signed a piece of paper that would enshrine some fundamental rights to our people
"No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseized of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land."
In 1642 Parliament and the King declared war upon each other because the King had decided that he was above the law of the land. It led to the end of the Monarchy as Britain had known it since pre-Norman times. It was the largest single realignment of power in this country since Harold had his eye put out. It was effectively a changing of the guard and a strike for democracy and the rule of the people and their representatives.
In 1939 this country stood alone against a tyrant that would bring the world to the edge of collapse. Once again we stood for freedom. And throughout my childhood there was constant fear of nuclear attack because we again were at the front of the war for democracy.
And now in 2013 we roll back to 1215 pre-Magna Carta. Why? The use of secret courts.
This government, as the previous one would like that our dirty linen not be washed in public. It would like that we Joe Public were not aware of the nasty little things that go on behind closed doors in the name of national security. Or better put in yours and my name!
The idea of bringing in secret courts is as abhorrent to this commentator as it should be to every free man, woman and child in this country who cherishes democracy. It should be condemned to history like the rack, the Spanish Inquisition and the gallows.
We rally against Syria, Iran and North Korea for their total disregard to their citizens yet are we any better?
We are supposedly a democracy and we are supposedly free. How can that be when the State is seeking to deny us of knowledge or of a fair trial? That is no better than dictatorship and isn't that what we fight so readily against? So are we heading for another Civil War? I hope not and I would not suggest ever taking arms up against a democratically elected body. However if we are fundamentally going to change the whole focus of our Justice system surely we the public have a right to our point of view don't we?
This is serious folks it could easily be you in the dock and these powers make it virtually impossible for you to fight against.
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=20659
The Death of an Icon
The National Health Service is one of the greatest icons that the world has ever seen in a drive for civilisation. It is a proud achievement that a country as small as the United Kingdom could lead the way in how we look after our sick and needy. And today it is headed by a man who will not resign even though he admitted he was complicit in the deaths of hundreds through neglect. It's a bit like welcoming back Josef Mengele and saying run our children's homes for us Herr Doktor.
Why won't the new Nazi's in power do anything about this? Is it because they are in cahoots with Nicholson? ( I no longer use the phrase Sir David because a knight should have honour) Does he know something that we don't?
And you may think that I am being disparaging by referring to Cameron et al. as being the equivalent of that heinous regime the Third Reich however all evidence is to the contrary at the moment. Sick and disabled are being maligned, rights are being eroded and the NHS something they swore to protect has been effectively put up for sale to the highest bidder. And when people die then those responsible get to keep their jobs and smile into their pensions.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-privatisation-plan-stopped-health-1734326
The NHS may not be perfect and it can be improved but do you really want to be wondering if you will be able to afford medical treatment should the need arise? Block this now and prevent the greatest travesty of our generation taking place. Defend the NHS, defend the right to healthcare.
I'm only being human
The Home Secretary has decided along with the other members of the coven that run our country that we will pull out of the Human Rights Act.
Now I can understand why people hate the Human Rights Act when it allows certain individuals to preach hate however there are fundamental rights that we all have that should be respected regardless and this Home Secretary would have us in sack cloth and ashes again
True democracy is defending the right of someone to say something that you would disagree with and vehemently oppose with your last breath.
And if we kill the Human Rights Act what if a new Marx or Engels came forward would we be able to hear their views or would be restricted by the State to what is good for us?
Sorry did I hear you say Goebbels or was that No Balls?
Suffer the little children
As an educationalist I am concerned that the propaganda that is been spouted about raising standards is really all about return to Victorian brainwashing. It is intrinsically a move made by Government, any Government who wants to be seen to appealing to worried parents about children getting on in life.
Watch this short video from Sir Ken Robinson and RSA animations. Maybe it will challenge your thought process about how we learn and why we are controlled in that learning.
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_changing_education_paradigms.html
Gove is an education minister that doesn't understand learning and how to make a better future for all of us. We can't predict what will happen in 5 years now yet we are educating children with methods that are hundreds of years old for a future in 60 years. How can we possibly know that that will work? Even Einstein or Hawking could not be classed as that clever!
Change the Paradigms improve the possibilities
It's tough up North
Rebecca Meredith is regarded as on of the top 20 public speakers in the world apparently yet the Cambridge student came in for a right ear bashing up in Glasgow
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2288148/Cambridge-debating-stars-left-tears-sexist-heckles-looks-prestigious-student-competition.html
Now Miss Meredith you really need to develop a tougher skin. Glasgow is a tough audience, even the fleas on the rats have bodyguards up there. I know I've lectured up there they don't take prisoners. The thing is though if you really are as skilled as your write ups suggest then surely you wouldn't run off stage crying at the heckles of a man who had obviously left his guide dog at home. And he must have been blind because let's face it you are pretty and you are good looking. I've debated in Varsity championships and have won may a trophy in years gone by but remembering one debate in Liverpool in the 80's I recall what Austin Mitchell said about following Matthew Parris.
" I feel like a cross between a man with herpes and HIV, an incurable romantic"
Now I didn't like Austin Mitchell but he enthralled me by that speech and he changed my mind about him. The secret to surviving a heckling audience is to either turn them round in your favour or buy a book called
Stand Up Put Downs by Rufus Hound
There's one or two good ways of shutting up idiots in the audience that way. Even shuts up the odd hardened Glasweigian.
And Finally
There's a phrase that has become close to my heart and something of a catchphrase to me particularly on twitter. And the reason for that? Well I just hate it when there is trouble and strife about and want to make sure I leave people with a positive thought.
So to end this blog just remember
Live your life with passion and above all........
peace and happiness to you all
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Security is the last part of Insecurity
Maslow describes how man is going through a process to reach a psychological state where he self actualises. In other words transcends the need for the human world in it's consumer sense. It is all about the inner relationship and the relationship on an emotional level with those around. The challenge within this is man's own desire to trip himself up.
Now interestingly I use the words man, his and him and that is because traditionally men were seen as everything and women as well, women. That concept today is totally outrageous and it is actually by looking how women are psychologically that we see where man is going wrong.
You could argue that man bases his self actualisation on my penis is bigger than your penis therefor my seed will spread further and last longer. Man has an overriding need for bigger and better toys, more powerful cars, more money in the bank. To him that is security but in reality that is his insecurity. This powerful motivator added to large amounts of testosterone drives the world we live in. The problem was that woman bought into this early on. Women were physically smaller, could be dominated more easily (and no I'm not talking 50 shades here) and whilst man would hunt woman would gather.
This is a different world today and man quite frankly has too many balls for it. You see in this humble commentators mind man is too bothered still about his penis when he should be more bothered about his brain. Woman is now coming to the fore because if we are logical about evolution the next evolutionary process in man will be the ability to connect with thought or feeling. In other words the ability to mind read.
How many men have gone on about I don't understand women? How many women have felt insecure because they can't get the right man? Or spend years with men who they care for but don't really connect with. How many men still hunt the trophy wife rather than look below the skin and the breasts and the legs? (although I have to admit I rather like legs myself )
Physical attraction is still a good thing , we have to procreate after all, and well sex is fun of course. But if you don't connect at a psychological level then what's the point? It's just a couple of hours (or about 30 seconds in my case) of extreme physical feeling and then its's all about "Is that the time? better be going then"
The problem is man has used this insecurity and somehow stuck it on to woman's psyche. Therefore it is the woman, who naturally has a greater emotional connect with herself, who starts to believe that she is at fault. She therefor starts to doubt herself when in reality she is still playing into the oldest power game in the book man v woman.
Experiencing some of the things that have challenged me through life has taught me that if I don't connect with myself how can I possibly connect with anyone else? My penis is large enough thank you for what it needs to do but in reality it feels a million times bigger when I am in real psychological harmony with someone. And for that I have to understand that emotions are the key to everything.
So it is good to feel it is good to feel insecure. Because if you feel insecure you are learning that at the end of insecurity comes security. Security within yourself and that is the only totally secure position you can ever truly have.
So if you are feeling insecure today rejoice as it is a part of a journey on your way to self-actualisation. Seek out the freedom insecurity will ultimately give you
Now interestingly I use the words man, his and him and that is because traditionally men were seen as everything and women as well, women. That concept today is totally outrageous and it is actually by looking how women are psychologically that we see where man is going wrong.
You could argue that man bases his self actualisation on my penis is bigger than your penis therefor my seed will spread further and last longer. Man has an overriding need for bigger and better toys, more powerful cars, more money in the bank. To him that is security but in reality that is his insecurity. This powerful motivator added to large amounts of testosterone drives the world we live in. The problem was that woman bought into this early on. Women were physically smaller, could be dominated more easily (and no I'm not talking 50 shades here) and whilst man would hunt woman would gather.
This is a different world today and man quite frankly has too many balls for it. You see in this humble commentators mind man is too bothered still about his penis when he should be more bothered about his brain. Woman is now coming to the fore because if we are logical about evolution the next evolutionary process in man will be the ability to connect with thought or feeling. In other words the ability to mind read.
How many men have gone on about I don't understand women? How many women have felt insecure because they can't get the right man? Or spend years with men who they care for but don't really connect with. How many men still hunt the trophy wife rather than look below the skin and the breasts and the legs? (although I have to admit I rather like legs myself )
Physical attraction is still a good thing , we have to procreate after all, and well sex is fun of course. But if you don't connect at a psychological level then what's the point? It's just a couple of hours (or about 30 seconds in my case) of extreme physical feeling and then its's all about "Is that the time? better be going then"
The problem is man has used this insecurity and somehow stuck it on to woman's psyche. Therefore it is the woman, who naturally has a greater emotional connect with herself, who starts to believe that she is at fault. She therefor starts to doubt herself when in reality she is still playing into the oldest power game in the book man v woman.
Experiencing some of the things that have challenged me through life has taught me that if I don't connect with myself how can I possibly connect with anyone else? My penis is large enough thank you for what it needs to do but in reality it feels a million times bigger when I am in real psychological harmony with someone. And for that I have to understand that emotions are the key to everything.
So it is good to feel it is good to feel insecure. Because if you feel insecure you are learning that at the end of insecurity comes security. Security within yourself and that is the only totally secure position you can ever truly have.
So if you are feeling insecure today rejoice as it is a part of a journey on your way to self-actualisation. Seek out the freedom insecurity will ultimately give you
Thursday, 14 February 2013
On a dreamy day
Sitting watching the world go by
Heart a churning, wonder why?
Hands are shaking, knees a quiver
It's only a thought but it makes me shiver
Thinking on what the future holds
Letting my soul break free from molds
Running free amongst the stars
When at last they break my prison bars
Passion is the truth that matters
Even if my life were in tatters
You are all I need to hold
To keep away the freezing cold
With warmth and hope in streams
You are always in my dreams
So as I sit and watch the word go by
It is you who will always make my heart fly
Copyright T Senior 2013
Heart a churning, wonder why?
Hands are shaking, knees a quiver
It's only a thought but it makes me shiver
Thinking on what the future holds
Letting my soul break free from molds
Running free amongst the stars
When at last they break my prison bars
Passion is the truth that matters
Even if my life were in tatters
You are all I need to hold
To keep away the freezing cold
With warmth and hope in streams
You are always in my dreams
So as I sit and watch the word go by
It is you who will always make my heart fly
Copyright T Senior 2013
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Lincoln decreed that slaves should be free! And now the courts rule that it is OK to bring back the chains of pain!
Well I've not really waded into this whole workfare debate too much yet however I think I have now made up my mind as to where I stand
It is okay to expect people to contribute to society however that contribution should not only be for the good of the person it should be for the good of all.
How can forcing someone to go and work at Poundland be in anyway helpful to their rehabilitation on to the jobs market? What exacting skills training does this job bring about and in reality if Poundland actually has the work for someone to do then surely they should pay them the national minimum wage for doing it. Oh I'm sorry I forgot that's not what all this is about is it?
If there is the work there to do then there is a job that can be paid for by the employer.
"A fair days wage for a fair days work" F.D.Roosevelt
Now FDR was a man who knew a bit about our society. In the midst of the worst depression seen in the Western World FDR brought forward his new deal. Okay you detractors will say that it didn't work for all, true I will give you that, but it did turn America from the slumbering giant into the powerhouse of manufacturing and business that it is today.
And the idea was simple pay someone a fair days wage for a fair days work. Not what workfare is doing I'm afraid. What it is doing though is reducing the figures and through clever PR manipulating the nation!
This country is in need of a rebuild. Quite a significant rebuild as it happens. We have infrastructure that was built in the 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's and some would say not the 1900's but the 1800's. We have hospitals that need repairs badly, we have railway stations where if you're disabled you can't access properly and we have town centres that are dying.
What exactly is spent on improving infrastructure in this country each year? what is the market worth to Civil. Mechanical and Electrical Engineers? Billions I would guess. What if we offered these organisations the money from the social security budget providing that they did exactly what FDR set out to achieve. What if instead of plowing that money into merely sitting at home playing on the XBox we rebuilt our manufacturing industry. No not like it was but aimed at 21st and 22nd Century goals. Where is our modern Brunel? Where is our modern Stephenson? Ah I forgot they're too busy getting fat and rich and forgetting that your company is only as good as the investment you put into it.
And the biggest investment should always be in the people!
We have generational unemployment because the rich don't like the poor and the rich don't like the buses. We have generational unemployment because we have gradually forgotten that Great Britain was the powerhouse of the world and it led that through science and technology and engineering and pioneering.
And it also led it through the compassion of people like Lever, Cadbury, Fry, Boots and Clark to name a few. People who actually saw that you get the best from a workforce if you teach them to aspire and teach them the skills they require. That you teach them that collaboration is better than confrontation.
Lincoln decreed that no man should be a slave and a nation went to war. Well if we bring back slavery in this country Ladies and Gentleman I am prepared to go to war. I will not allow, and nor should you, the enslavement of your fellow human being. Let us live by higher principles not by higher profit margins. Let us live by loftier ideals not by rising dividends.
I think the man who founded Merck and Co the pharmaceutical giant said it best
"If you look after the patient the pennies will look after themselves"
And our patient today is those people who want to work who want to contribute but who are being manipulated by a few for the sake of a few middle class votes at the next election!
Do not play politics with people's lives be bigger than that !
It is okay to expect people to contribute to society however that contribution should not only be for the good of the person it should be for the good of all.
How can forcing someone to go and work at Poundland be in anyway helpful to their rehabilitation on to the jobs market? What exacting skills training does this job bring about and in reality if Poundland actually has the work for someone to do then surely they should pay them the national minimum wage for doing it. Oh I'm sorry I forgot that's not what all this is about is it?
If there is the work there to do then there is a job that can be paid for by the employer.
"A fair days wage for a fair days work" F.D.Roosevelt
Now FDR was a man who knew a bit about our society. In the midst of the worst depression seen in the Western World FDR brought forward his new deal. Okay you detractors will say that it didn't work for all, true I will give you that, but it did turn America from the slumbering giant into the powerhouse of manufacturing and business that it is today.
And the idea was simple pay someone a fair days wage for a fair days work. Not what workfare is doing I'm afraid. What it is doing though is reducing the figures and through clever PR manipulating the nation!
This country is in need of a rebuild. Quite a significant rebuild as it happens. We have infrastructure that was built in the 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's and some would say not the 1900's but the 1800's. We have hospitals that need repairs badly, we have railway stations where if you're disabled you can't access properly and we have town centres that are dying.
What exactly is spent on improving infrastructure in this country each year? what is the market worth to Civil. Mechanical and Electrical Engineers? Billions I would guess. What if we offered these organisations the money from the social security budget providing that they did exactly what FDR set out to achieve. What if instead of plowing that money into merely sitting at home playing on the XBox we rebuilt our manufacturing industry. No not like it was but aimed at 21st and 22nd Century goals. Where is our modern Brunel? Where is our modern Stephenson? Ah I forgot they're too busy getting fat and rich and forgetting that your company is only as good as the investment you put into it.
And the biggest investment should always be in the people!
We have generational unemployment because the rich don't like the poor and the rich don't like the buses. We have generational unemployment because we have gradually forgotten that Great Britain was the powerhouse of the world and it led that through science and technology and engineering and pioneering.
And it also led it through the compassion of people like Lever, Cadbury, Fry, Boots and Clark to name a few. People who actually saw that you get the best from a workforce if you teach them to aspire and teach them the skills they require. That you teach them that collaboration is better than confrontation.
Lincoln decreed that no man should be a slave and a nation went to war. Well if we bring back slavery in this country Ladies and Gentleman I am prepared to go to war. I will not allow, and nor should you, the enslavement of your fellow human being. Let us live by higher principles not by higher profit margins. Let us live by loftier ideals not by rising dividends.
I think the man who founded Merck and Co the pharmaceutical giant said it best
"If you look after the patient the pennies will look after themselves"
And our patient today is those people who want to work who want to contribute but who are being manipulated by a few for the sake of a few middle class votes at the next election!
Do not play politics with people's lives be bigger than that !
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