Morning, what will the week bring?
The timeline is carnage at the moment, basically a constant stream of stuff about Labour sleaze, immigration, US election or Isreal/Palestine. But then I suppose the reason for that is that’s what’s in the news, that’s the reality of the world at the moment. I know most people use The Scroll in order to see what’s happening without having to watch the news or go on social media themselves, so I pretty much just have to lean in to what’s there. I’m going to do another questionnaire at the end of the month to confirm why people are here and if there’s anything I can update in the way I’m doing stuff.
What I would like to emphasise though is that although I’m giving my opinion of what comes up, I’m never trying to persuade you one way or another, this isn’t an outlet for any particular ‘side’, because I try to take things as I find them. I’m only ever interested in understanding what’s really happening and reacting to it - we have a bit of fun here with the conspiracy stuff, but even that as we’ve found is often just reality delayed. As you should have realised by now I view the world through the frame of personal responsibility, that you are your actions and although it’s important to understand the background of those actions, the final decision to act is always the individuals’ whether good or bad. This is why it’s important to deal as much in reality as possible, because if you don’t you’re going to get lost in feelings and obfuscations. I want to know what is actually happening because if I don’t know that, I cannot effectively act. If there is a problem you are tasked with understanding and solving and you are allowed to see 95% of the data, but not the final 5% how can you be expected to effectively understand and solve the problem? Sometimes you may get away with it for a while, or manage a kind of bodged fix that slows the effects, but if the solution to the problem lies in that final 5% that’s off limits to you, you will fail.
Reality doesn’t care about your feelings, or your politics, or your idea of how the world ought to be, it is just reality. Much of what we endure today in terms of failures and decline is due in no small part to all of the above being given priority over reality. Eventually reality does indeed bite and when it does we bleed and we are starting bleed out. I’m realising this more and more and I think I’m not alone. If there is one essential battle to fight currently it is bizarrely to defend reality without fear or favour. Fight to find it and then stand on it, no simple thing to do in this day and age, but you must, regardless of how uncomfortable or inconvenient what you find is.