A terrible day among bad days

I think the title of this entry says it all really.  Today is a really terrible day for me as I feel the loss of my beloved cat Merlin even more keenly than the preceding days.

It’s not the inability to remember what he looked like that’s the problem but the fact that he left a gigantic hole in my life and there’s nothing in the world that can fill it.  Waves of tearfulness come crashing down upon me and they are wearing me down as it is in the nature of water to do so.

No one in my life understands just how deeply I am wounded and how hollow and meaningless my life has become.  Losing Merlin came upon a tsunami of misfortunes that have decimated what I laughingly refer to as my life and, whilst I have somewhat overcome some of those misfortunes, there are still enough continuing to damage my fragile psyche.

Oh, I can whack out some humorous memes and make the odd humorous remark but inside I’m dying, pieces of my soul worn away by grief, loneliness and the eternal blackness within which I live.

The light that once shone throughout my life has gone and, piece by piece, it’s killing me.  The most stupid things trigger suicidal thoughts in me and I feel the greatest urge to act upon them so that I can be with my beloved Merlin even though I know that there is nothing beyond this torturous life.  My head feels as though it is numb and filled with cotton wool.

I don’t think I’ll be able to make it through Christmas without something giving.

The problem with the Syria/ISIS debate

There has been much debate over the last few weeks over whether the UK should have sent bombers to Syria to take out areas under the control of ISIS and that debate has, obviously, been divided between the pro-bombing and the anti-bombing camps.  The decision was made by a majority of Members of Parliament to send in the bombers on the premise that some of the bombs may actually his a member of ISIS and not several innocent bystanders.

The problem with the debate, I believe, was that it largely surrounded the greater or lesser use of Irrational Criteria (IC).

Jeremy Corbyn tried to stop the UK going into an unwinable war in the Middle East by wanting to use rational and less violent means or, to put it another way, used an argument that was less on IC.

Unfortunately, David Cameron managed to scare a majority of MPs into voting for war in Syria by using much more knee jerk emotional and irrational arguments or, to put it another way, used a more on IC case and people fell for his half-lies.

I have always known that Cameron was more-on-IC but now it seems that a great deal more MPs are more-on-IC than any of us could have thought.

Some more pro-Corbyn memes

I really admire Jeremy Corbyn so it gives me a chance to create some positive memes.  Enjoy!

The second meme has gotten a great reception on Facebook and has shown the amount of goodwill and support for Mr Corbyn.

My latest anti-Tory memes collected in one place

Here's the latest collection of memes.  Enjoy!

 

Learning the lessons from history

I have come under a certain amount of criticism on Facebook for being offensive and/or disrespectful to the victims of the Holocaust with my latest meme (above).  I can see why some people may take that stance but I see the meme as not even being about the Holocaust at all.  What the meme does is bring a comparison between mentality of the regime that created Auschwitz and the mentality of the current administration of the UK by using a topical image of Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to the scene of such human carnage.

I certainly have no wish to offend people with my meme but I believe that it is necessary for the human race to learn the lessons given to us by history.  The Nazis had a very negative view of the disabled as well as the Jews and anyone who did not fit into the society they were trying to create.  Disabled people were killed in concentration camps and were experimented on in the most horrific ways and, whilst the Conservative administration in the UK has not resorted to such overt methods, they have a very negative view of the disabled as being a drain on the State and have caused the deaths of many poor and disabled people with their welfare ‘reforms’.

The Conservatives seem set upon a regime of social cleansing that will reduce the numbers of poor and disabled people that uses eerily familiar language to that used by the Nazis.  Iain Duncan Smith used similar words to those found above the gates of Auschwitz – “Arbeit Macht Frei” (literally “work makes [you] free”) – when selling his welfare ‘reforms’ to the Great British public[1].  This, together with the deaths due to the welfare ‘reforms’, cannot be ignored as having unnerving parallels with what happened in Germany under Hitler’s rule so I believe that, as a political commentator, it is my duty to highlight these similarities so that the UK does not allow what happened in 1930s/1940s Germany to happen here.

Being a depressive, I prefer to use humour to capture people’s attention as people tend to respond to humour and satire rather than long drawn-out debates which is why I have been creating memes to draw attention to how ultra-Right-wing the current administration has become.

The Auschwitz visit meme is drawing attention to the similarity in the language used then in Germany and here in the UK right now.  It also draws attention to the deaths caused by the welfare ‘reforms’ with the mention of “population reduction” and to how far to the political Right the ‘Government’ has become with the mention of invasion plans (which also refers to Cameron’s willingness to bomb Syria as well).

The meme has nothing to do with belittling the human tragedy that was the Holocaust because I would never do something that crass; however, I must point to the lessons that history is teaching us lest we repeat the mistakes of the past.

Causing offence is certainly not my intention but I must, as a human being, speak out in whatever way is most effective to bring about public awareness.  Offensive humour, however unintentional, is not wrong if it highlights where a society is going down the wrong path or highlights an injustice.

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[1] https://youtu.be/QGY15gSc8OM?t=4m18s

You want more anti-Tory memes? Oh alright then!

Here are my latest anti-Tory memes.  Enjoy!

 

Are nuclear weapons really a deterrent?

This has been a recurring question over the last few weeks as the UK is in a debate about whether to renew the country’s nuclear ‘deterrent’ or scrap it and spend the money on something more important.

The answer to the question I posed is both ‘yes’ and ‘no’.  Well thank you for clearing that up I hear you say but give me a moment to explain.

Yes, nuclear weapons are a deterrent but only for those people who are intelligent and restrained enough not to use them.  They provide no deterrence to those who are foolish enough to be the first one to push the big red button and launch nuclear death just for the Hell of it.

In fact, having nuclear weapons poses a hazard to the human race merely by their presence because they provide madmen with a readily useable source of death on a scale the human species is unlikely to ever see again as those who are unlucky to survive will have had their eyes turned to coal by the blast.

All the human race needs is one overly paranoid world leader or a sufficiently ambitious terrorist and we’re looking at the end of the species in a scenario aptly named MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).

All the nuclear ‘deterrent’ truly is, is a means to exact revenge on an aggressor for having the stupidity to launch a nuclear strike first and it worries me that there are so many leaders who are willing to push the button at all.

The UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron is one of those morons who would press the button but he is a very vindictive man who probably thinks that he and his colleagues will survive a nuclear exchange.  He isn’t so confident because he will be in a fallout shelter but because, according to accepted wisdom, cockroaches will be the only species to survive, nay, thrive in a post-apocalyptic world and he and his colleagues are most certainly cockroaches.