Month: November 2021

Allowing indulgence to delusioned individuals who believe in utter bollocks is one of the major drivers in modern life on planet earth.

From US evengalists, to Brazilian Catholics to Hindus or the BJP and all those mad mullah inspired mass murderers, there is so much bad that is done in the service of utter dogma.

Religion isn’t a crutch, it’s an excuse, used to enslave and control.

It destroys opponents and pretends to have benevolence, yet is mostly based on the ideas of primitive middle eastern gurus and paedophiles.

Christianity is nothing to do with the super white churches of the mid west.

Mormonism is so funny it makes me laugh – perhaps a little bit less than Scientology or Christian Science.

The shia hate the sunni more than they hate the jews or christians, apparently.

Apparently there’s one god. And all these people ‘follow’ him, but is it the same god, and why do they therefore hate each other so much ?

It’s all utter bollocks.

People of privilege believe that they are special and chosen. They follow various idols – a religion or money or their own self image.

People of privilege see others as beneath them: they are immigrants, or foreigners or socialists or scum. They are, worst of all, different.

They see themselves in the castle on the hill, not the poor ghetto they exist in. They see themselves as gods, not humans. They see themselves as protectors of the past, not the inventors of the future.

Because tomorrow they will leave their trailers or two up two down and become as rich as Donald Trump or Putin or those other guys that people of privilege vote for, just as the turkeys welcome Christmas.

A watch is an interesting edifice. It’s basically a handcuff to time.

But people collect them and invest in them and you can buy one for a couple of quid or for millions.

Time has a fascinating history, and the ability to enchain it in a device was a true indicator of mechanical and industrial progress.

Its relationship to navigation was even more profound.

However, I have never worn a watch – well not since I lost the very expensive Omega that my parents bought me for my eighteenth birthday. I think it lasted two years before being left in a campsite washroom.

Recently I took to wearing the Apple Watch 4 that I bought and inherited from my mum as she became frail and kept on falling at home.

I have a bad heart and it is genuinely good at helping me monitor this. But it has loads of useless functions too. Almost nothing works unless you have an iPhone within ten feet.

There’s no wrist iConferencing, you can’t even play spotify without a phone. It’s a £800 conceit, which is still more functional and far more sensible than a £10k Patek Pilippe.

The point is that we are all handcuffed to capitalism, to stupid conceits.

You need to spend £2.5m on a petrol car that will get you from 0-60 in around 2 seconds. An EV will dot his for £150k. But who, and why would you, want to go from 0-60 in 2 secs in the real world ?

Utility and value have long been disconnected, and this is where the theses of our great capitalist writers fall down.

The rich gather more, pointlessly, and the poor suffer more, tragically.

As we all watch the time tick on…