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We Are the Normal Ones - And the Outside World are the Fruit-Loops

Desmond1979

Having heard about the Train Stabbing, last night, I can safely assume that we're the level-headed ones.

Perhaps our way of living spared us from the savagery out there. We know how to process ills better. Rather than lash out, we find other outlets for satisfaction.

Some Inner-City areas, in our country, would make the Third World Squirm. A society trained, like dogs, to attack at will.

The problem is Centralised Planning. Trying to make every town and city the same. In the end, they lost their sense of character. Too many aspiring architects, with connections, ruining everything.

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  • Desmond1979 said:
    I can safely assume that we're the level-headed ones.

    I wouldn't be so sure about that.

    We have had some on here saying we should get the aristocrats to take over power in the country to take us back ot the the good old days.

    Some are advocating getting rid of immigrants to take us back to the good old days.

    Others saying we should put the church in charge to keep the sinners under control like back in the good old days.

    And so forth.

    The one thing all have in common is an opinion that it was better in the good old days, whatever that may mean.

  • in reply to Iain

    The good old days is a fairytale, different for everybody, Yesterday is gone. Civil society and (British) values need to be protected though. 

  • in reply to pietro_21
    pietro_21 said:
    Civil society and (British) values need to be protected though. 

    How could you define these though? A serious question.

    Values change with time and need to be constantly revisited otherwise women would not be able to vote and slavery would still be legal.

    Who will be responsible for defining these and then policing them?

    All are important questions.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    A Constitutional Republic, as opposed to a Democratic Republic.

    That was America's original aim. Then it got skewed, in a myriad of war and espionage.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    Prince Andrew, isn't he the scandal that keeps on giving!

    His proper title now is "The Andrew formerly known as Prince".
    Apparently they're threatening to take away his campaign medals from the Falklands, which seems to me a step too far: he did serve, even if they did make certain that his service didn't put him in danger (which they may or may not have done).

  • in reply to Iain

    Prince Andrew, isn't he the scandal that keeps on giving!

    Perhaps we should bring back the idea that all members of a common gr grandfather should be eligable for the throne, and hopefully the best is picked by the family. This seems to have been a common system in mediaeval Ireland and probably much further back than that, the Witan in Anglo-Saxon England seems to have worked in much the same way.

    Primogeniture seems about the worst way to pick a leader and wasn't established firmly in this country until quite late on in the Mediaeval period.

    I think most of the aristocracy had affairs, its because of arranged and dynastic marriage, marriage was a business arrangement, allying families and vested interests with the "right blood". Even for women once you'd produced an heir and a spare, you were quite often free to follow your own romantic interests.

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  • in reply to Iain

    Prince Andrew, isn't he the scandal that keeps on giving!

    Perhaps we should bring back the idea that all members of a common gr grandfather should be eligable for the throne, and hopefully the best is picked by the family. This seems to have been a common system in mediaeval Ireland and probably much further back than that, the Witan in Anglo-Saxon England seems to have worked in much the same way.

    Primogeniture seems about the worst way to pick a leader and wasn't established firmly in this country until quite late on in the Mediaeval period.

    I think most of the aristocracy had affairs, its because of arranged and dynastic marriage, marriage was a business arrangement, allying families and vested interests with the "right blood". Even for women once you'd produced an heir and a spare, you were quite often free to follow your own romantic interests.

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