Poppies and rememberance

Do you wear a poppy and go to rememberance services?

I feel really ambivalent about them and it. I wish there was more focus on those who came/come back brokens. I say this as the Grandaughter of one of the "lions led by donkey's", my Grandda suffered from what we now know as PTSD, he sacrificed his sanity and the legacy still runs through our family to this day. Why do we not remember the sacrifice people like him made?

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  • When you buy a poppy you are supporting the Royal British Legion which is there to help veterans. 

    I don't do remembrance stuff because I don't agree with it. Its a national lie which is peddled to justify Liberal Progressive policies. At this point I would pull down all the war memorial across the country and blow up Cenotaph. We need to move on as a country and let go of the trauma inflicted upon us by a cruel and unjust state. 

    The truth my view is that the Liberal Progressive overthrew the Aristocratic High State in England, in 1906, then waged a war to overthrow the High state across Europe. In doing so it conscripted and murdered over 1 million British men, and use there sacrifice as a catalyst event to sweep away what was left of the traditional structures of Europe. So we need to get over it and move on.   

  • Aristocracy is merely an accident of birth. Most societies where great strides in culture, science, arts, industry and commerce are made have not been rigid aristocracies, but have had meritocratic routes towards social betterment. This was even the case in Late Medieval England. The De la Pole family went from provincial merchants based in the city of Hull, to dukedoms and eventual pretenders to the throne in about 6 generations.

  • England from 1700-1900 literally a Aristocratic society, which found the greatest strides in the history of the world, recreating the world economy two times over with the Industrial and Technological revolution. Since we overthrow that system, we have become a impoverished back water. 

  • Isaac Newton was not an aristocrat, neither was Charles Darwin. The two greatest scientists the UK has produced. Darwin was middle class, his father was a physician and his mother was part of the Wedgewood pottery family. My 3x gt grandfather, who owned an iron foundry, was not an aristocrat, neither was another ancestor who owned a coal mine in the Black Country. Iron and coal were the two main drivers of industry. Some industrialists became aristocrats through their wealth and involvement in politics, but the driving force behind the Industrial Revolution was not the hereditary aristocracy.

    You are nostalgic for a fantasy that never existed.

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  • Isaac Newton was not an aristocrat, neither was Charles Darwin. The two greatest scientists the UK has produced. Darwin was middle class, his father was a physician and his mother was part of the Wedgewood pottery family. My 3x gt grandfather, who owned an iron foundry, was not an aristocrat, neither was another ancestor who owned a coal mine in the Black Country. Iron and coal were the two main drivers of industry. Some industrialists became aristocrats through their wealth and involvement in politics, but the driving force behind the Industrial Revolution was not the hereditary aristocracy.

    You are nostalgic for a fantasy that never existed.

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