The Hump of the Camel

To follow up on my last-but-one post, consider this.

The time has come for judgment to begin, and God’s own people are the first to be judged.

1 Peter 4:17

The thing that upset many people most during COVID, and in the permacrisis since, was the total failure of a majority of people to comprehend that there was anything fundamentally wrong. That blind attitude has persisted into the most recent manifestation of the crisis (if you don’t count monkeypox and the NATO invasion of Russia at our expense), that is the protests and riots that have many US commentators wondering what has become of English justice, and even caused a friend in the impoverished and violent state of Sri Lanka to phone me to see if I was safe.

I’m not safe, of course, because I write “anti-establishment rhetoric,” and that gets people jailed over here. But it seems that a majority accepts the narrative that Far-Right groups instigated the protests for the mindless hell of it, and should all be banged up and the key thrown away. The despair of ordinary folk goes unnoticed by those more fortunate, as well as by Keir Starmer.