It is said that British wars were won, not in the battle fields, but at its schools where young British children were inculcated with patriotism and noble values. One of such schools at Eton had its ceiling made of planks taken from Spanish ships sunk by the British navy. A child would gaze up during class and remember the valor of his ancestors. Today’s Britons have moved far, far away from the classrooms of Eton. I do not know if they have those classrooms or whether ‘multicultural sensitivity’ has dismantled those ceilings.
If the British patriots were formed inside the classrooms of Eton, its hooligans have also been fashioned in open classrooms across the country. A new generation of English has grown up under a public education system which taught that their forefathers were thieves and brigands and their country was founded on exploitation. Added to this, the instruments of adult education in Britain, the media, is wielded by an elite whose hatred for their own nation only surpassed by the guilt of the privileges they enjoyed. A new curriculum of words and terms for public discourse is in place. Thus, even as the rioters were looting and burning in central London, the BBC was referring to the rioters as ‘protestors’. The use of the term ‘rioter’ was seen as ‘politically incorrect’. The BBC was echoing Darcus Howe, writer and broadcaster who called the riots 'insurrection of the masses of the people’ akin to that in Port of Spain Trinidad, Syria and other parts of the world. So whatever happened, Britain was to blame.
Powerful ideas affecting our behavior can be visible only in brief sentences, even a phrase. Doris Lessing , Nobel Laureate, says that the phrase ‘political correctness’ was born as Communism was collapsing. The torch of Communism has been handed on to the ‘political correctors’.
Thus the success of the Liberal thought police is that it has been able to use words - loaded words meant to convey totalitarian ideas which automatically blacked out any other point of view and in making these words the reference for public discourse. Words like 'committed', ‘racist’, 'progressive' 'politically correct' and ‘culturally sensitive’ have defined righteousness and sought to direct actions ( or inactions ) in relation to anything – starting from race , gender to riots. Thus Policemen who acted against the rioters with firmness were 'race insensitive' and hence to be condemned. To point out that the rioters were looting shops is not 'progressive', never mind if the hooligans were taking away Reeboks and HD TVs.
The conduct of the majority, especially the white Anglo Saxon element, is today constrained within the walls erected by these words - their ability to think outside this box severely curtailed by years of indoctrination. It is revealing that while others migrants like the Sikhs stood up to the looters, the Englishman stood around like sheep and watched the mayhem. He is like a programmed robot paralyzed by conflicting inputs. He is somewhat like the Hindu who having been given a liberal does of Gandhism is faced with the reality of Malabar riots.
The conversion of the British, from the resolute people who fought the Nazis to a standstill during WWII, into a confused and sheepish element has been one of the main achievements of Liberal thought control.
PM David Cameron has his task cut out. To inculcate moral values in a patchwork of nationalities that is the England of today will be quite a task and may require a major surgery.
Perhaps, it is Karma, a poetic retribution for the British- to be brought to heel by the same forces it sought to enslave throughout its history.
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