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Everyday I am surprised by how little I really know about people.

I seem to be afflicted with a dose of too much introspection at the moment.I am trying to work out a plan here on the off chance that I am still extant in a couple of years.

The one thing in life that is certain is that nothing stays the same and the more one try’s to hold to the good things the more stuff slips through your fingers. Forward is the only way to go if you can.

Everyday I am surprised by how little I really know about people.

On the net with so many peoples real identities often masked or obscured it makes you wonder what lies behind the nature of some of the more vociferous postings. I find particularly amusing the degree of certainty in some peoples convictions as though they have a total understanding of the world. To them it would appear everything is simple, and it is only those that hold other views who are sadly misguided on matters of politics, religion, or any moral issues. O how blessed to be so sure of everything and that you are right, it must be a wondrous state to exist in, and other mere mortals like myself can only wonder at their awesome powers and infallibility. If there is dissent they have only to repeat themselves or shout louder.

Strangely away from the world of the net and the LCD screens this approach does not seem to work in quite the same way. Such things are of course a mystery to simple folk like me.

It is also interesting how those same knowledgeable folk can know immediately that ones own direct experience of the world is invalid where as everything that they may utter should be taken as truth. At times of frustration they will quote from appropriate sources with great erudition when their “Truth” is disputed.

Still I am a neophyte having only been on this earth 56 years and having of course in that time learnt nothing and been mistaken about everything that I have experienced which I have of course misinterpreted.

Pity me, where will I find guidance 😉

Looking back and stuff

Today has not been the best day for me, I have feeling quite low and also suffering from some ongoing aches and pains related to a problem that started over a year ago. I have been thinking back over what I have done with most of my adult life and trying to reconcile the fact that I did miss the boat in many ways.

With Mrs T’s passing, its a bit like a sign post as many people seem to have very selective memory’s of that period, and its made me take a bit of wander down memory lane. The Brixton riots being a particularly vivid memory for me for example. Time seems to have flashed by, I seem to have been on this forum for ever too.

Some people gained and some lost a lot.
I suspect that there could well have been a better way to make change happen. To describe some sections of society as the enemy is hardly the way to have anything other than a divided Britain and the same style of rhetoric is in use today. So enough with the scapegoating its really not helpful.

Postcard from Battersea

Well here we are then, still in a complete state of confusion and waiting for some good news, but the weathers still shit, the governments shit and I am feeling a bit shit myself. OK the reasons for optimism to balance it, well I am still alive, actually that’s about it really. Everything is bad news and we are fed a constant diet of inaccurate and distorted news, and there even seems to be what can only be interpreted as government sponsored hate campaigns against those who are most vulnerable in our society. The more you inquire the worst it gets and yet more duplicity is revealed. OK tell me I am paranoid I dare you.

Yet here in Battersea I am surrounded by the most blatant conspicuous consumption, recently a new restaurant has announced its open and distributed its gilt edged menu through my front door (my hovel being cheek by jowl with some of the most expensive property in London) and the menu has no prices in it, Presumably if you have to ask….

Apart from that, well its business as usual.
Wrote a song a couple of days ago, which can be heard here >

http://www.reverbnation.com/dianastone/song/16675904-pretty-gilded-cage