Matthew Parris the fascist!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9583091/Liberal-commentator-Matthew-Parris-calls-blanket-ban-Travellers.html

You can see his argument the media is controlled and the law courts dominated by Capitalism. It is the idea of the establishment in the UK. But Matthew Parris has become a dangerous ideologue more in league with Hitler and Satan than with anything good or correct. We don't need to remind Mr Parris that the Romany Gypsies suffered 85% extermination at the hands of the Nazis because they did not "fit in" to the ideology. He is treading on extremely dangerous ground. Next step the Jews do not fit in for not accepting the King as the head of state.

But firstly by Capitalism we mean the owning of things, and ultimately for profit. But how did this come about?

The UK is not really dominated by the ideas espoused by Parris.

We have "Public Rights of Way" which force the owners to allow passage of regular humans without property rights. And we have "Commons" important relics of the Past that remind us where we came from and about the truth of humanity. They embody the central ideas of equality and freedom that we inherit from the Past, but which are always under threat from political powers wishing to cement their control.

"Public Rights of Way" are ancient and hark back to times long before Capitalism or the Norman Conquest and the Doomsday Book when the country was occupied by tribes. Our beloved London, heart of the world's finance, in those days was a swamp in the corner of Cantiaci (Kent) and Regnenses (Surrey/Sussex) territory in the South and Catuvellauni tribes to the North of the Thames.

And before the Iron Age and Bronze Ages before when land became a commodity, back in the Palaeolithic, tribes would have had a much looser, freer tie to the land. Yet these Ways along which people walked would have existed even then, especially the Downs which would have been dry and clear routes through the landscape.

Mankind's relationship with the land of Britain is as ancient as us humans ourselves and that remains with us, and is the most important thing about us, and it is tied into the very concepts we have about what humans and life are about. In Modern speak we have "rights" and we all have a right to a relationship with the land, just as we have a right to a relationship with the sky, even if that is all just to walk the dog in the morning. 

Overlaid over this natural understanding is the political rise to power of certain individuals. And they have cemented that power through ownership. We see that gradual expansion of power through the closure of Commons and the "enclosure acts" where tribes are pushed off the land they have lived on since the dawn of time to make room for owners to set up industry and reap profit. India is currently in this battle over the freedom of people to live on their land, and Capitalists to buy up that land and turn it over to exploitation for profit. Indians are much freer than Brits, and the Indians are winning this battle at the moment and resisting the invasion of international investment and exploitation.

It is a long history. We have seen invasions endlessly as overseas powers seek to take over the land and enslave the people into working for them. The British have been mostly successful, expelling the Dane Law under Alfred the Great, expelling the Nazis under Churchill (altho we only went on to fall under US control instead). But most famously we failed to keep the Romans and later Norman Kings out. In the later case Britain was subjected to complete slavery and the land was taken over by oppressive Castles and Feudal Lords which set up the system that we still struggle under today. 1066 was a very dark day indeed for Britain. But 1688 was equally dark because under William of Orange the UK once again under slavery this time to investors and the rise of Central Banks in the start of Georgian Capitalism.

Throughout all this time Britain the land has remained, the stage upon which power battles are played out. And the Brits regardless what political system understand this. You cannot defeat us, for whatever system of slavery or government is enforced by the rich, we are always ultimately unified by the land and the history. This is the soil from which equality and freedom come. Once we are uprooted from any fundamental right to be on this planet then we are as good as dead and become true slaves.

This unfortunately seems to be the corner that Matthew Parris has ended up arguing himself. He wants to divorce humans of any rightful place on this planet and leave them renting and working to earn the right to stand where they are and even exist.

At the wandering monks in India said to Alexander the Great: a man can only truly own the land on which he stands. This is the true ownership which transcends anything that Matthew Parris may be conjuring up.

In Matthew Parris' England you cannot even stand on the soil without paying the land owner. You cannot even breath without recompense for the owner of that air. You cannot even look at the sun without paying back the owner of that light. You have no right to exist beyond what you have paid for. But as everyone has always known God owns everything because He made it. Only under Capitalism has mankind slipped into the greatest sin of thinking, hoping, that we might really own what we do. An obvious lie in a universe we had no hand in making. We cannot make ourselves, we were given ourselves and everything we are and do. How can we ever pay some one else for something given wholy by God?

One wonders how Matthew Parris has even earned the right to think! Isn't that controlled by the establishment itself? And in fact this might well be why Mr Parris has been allowed to speak, for serving the interests of his masters.

But he dressed it up in Ethnic and Cultural terms to talk about Gypsies and Traveller communities a common, but petty, point of hatred amongst the land owning bigotry of the UK.

No one who has worked hard to buy some property, or who has worked hard to keep their area clean, wants a bunch of unwashed ill educated savages turning up and trashing the area, stealing and exploiting us before moving on to punish someone else and leaving us to clean up.

This is a fact! Parris is correct to address these concerns.

But the idea that we are limited to thinking about the UK in terms of property plots and our freedom limited to the law courts is profoundly trivial, pedestrian, small minded and mercenary. It is a solution in the same way as shooting someone you disagree with is a solution. Rubbing it out, removing it means we all lose.

No man is an Island Mr Parris. Words written on this very Island to remind us that the fate of one person is the fate of all.

Lets just make travellers bow down to the Hegemony. To which they have every right to stand up and say why don't you sell everything and follow us (to quote Jesus and there is very much in this statement).

If Mr Parris is successful at eradicating the "nomadic lifestyle" from Britain he will only serve to build higher the fake façade of  order that is manufactured in the UK. When Death comes for Mr Parris let him wonder then how his ideas have any relevance! No amount of land ownership, property rights, or wealth will stop his death. All these ideas are as rules in the game of chess. And this was very much the preoccupation of the earlier parts of this blog.

So it is one thing to force travellers to get educated, get jobs and settle down, but it is quite another to suggest that their way of life is irrelevant. The first is just a trivial and practical matter and one they can decide on. The second is a profound statement about the nature of life!

So most definitely Mr Parris has strayed unwittingly into territory (nice irony) where he himself does not belong. If he is really committed to this idea of excluding ways of thinking and defining territory he should exclude himself. He is referring to things that he has absolutely no idea about and his ignorance in these matters is only too apparent. It will be up to readership to decide, but let us hope his small matter of social order does not obscure the profound attack on the founding principles of British people and human life in general that he has made.

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Its a big topic in fact. The largest genocide in human history was the near eradication of all Americans by European Invaders to America in the 18th and 19th centuries because they did not accept property rights. This eclipses the famous eradication of Eastern European tribes by the Nazis in the 1940s. But they are identical : removal of unwanted people to make way for wanted people. If even the United States is built upon this genocidal idea it is clearly very prevalent. But it is not something the UK has ever entertained... not yet anyway. I don't think Matthew Parris realises the heritage of his current brain state!

Perhaps it rather suits him?

But all this said it does not solve the problem. What happens when more recent property-rights following cultures meet non-property rights cultures. Certainly the properties people have invariably chosen eradication in the West and Parris is not new to this. This perhaps is the danger of the ideology of property. It inevitably ends in genocide?

But if we look at India we can see happy co-existence between wandering ascetics and landed people. Indeed Buddhism is based upon these two classes of people. The homeless monastics that make the Sangha and the lay devotees who live landed family lives. In North Africa Bedouin and other wandering tribes still exist and in the frozen North Inuit still hunt in unclaimed lands. In Australia there are growing rights for the aboriginals to continue their ancient relationship with the land. And in South America every picture you see contains indigenous people carrying on as they have for 1000s of years. As Niall Fergusson points out the South never enforced property rules (which he claims is why the USA has done so well economically - but it's also why there was a genocide in the North and you never see American Indians any more - take your pick Niall). It is just America that stands out as continuing a genocidal attitude to humans who do not accept the ruling elites. This is extremely ironic given that America thinks itself the land of the free.

But you don't need some ethnic or genetic link to these peoples to inherit their way of life any more than you need to be born into property rights to live that way of life. The idea of homelessness and the propertylessness reminds us where we come from, our true state, and remind us the limits of this fabricated existence that we live in the West.  When we die we return to the homelessness and propertylessness that we have with us every day of our lives and which underpins our freedom.

How can we move home if we are truly propertied people? We can pick up property, we can put property down. We can buy this house, we can move to that house. We can only do this because we are actually propertyless. There is no freedom in property as many have found out. It is a hollow temporary victory to achieve property and land! The only gain is antisocially forcing other people to go away, and when mortgages are paid no longer paying rent to Capitalists (which is a circular reason as property was the reason we were paying rent anyway). 

I can write on indefinitely, the depth and profound ignorance of Matthew Parris is extraordinary and the shallowness of his soon to end life (74 this year) is pitiful. I pray only that other people do not follow him down into the dark and dank tomb of ownership into which he has fallen.

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And I realise I have not solved the problem of what differing cultures, ideas and people do when they meet. But extermination cannot be the way. Or maybe it is and the Nazis and Americans are forgiven?