Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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This is because you are British (to this day, idolaters of Rome), both empires being made upon colonization and exploitation of others to every extent possible, and that is part and parcel of the mindset you were brought up with, impossible to see it any other way.
That is an excellent explanation of how Britons might perceive the economy, exploitation being the key, something Britain has a history of, and if it was not exploitation of peoples overseas via conquest and colonisation, it was and it seems now the people at home, the UK citizens are being exploited by those that wield the economy, dog eat dog and the more money and status one has the longer they can fend off the other dogs if that is they operate in the economic sphere.
But our Prime Minister, what is he at, why is the economy so important, well from a speech he made back in 2010 ;
�Economic weakness at home translates into political weakness abroad. Economic strength will restore our respect in the world and our national self-confidence.� The Prime Minister will say that he will �focus like a laser� on defending Britain�s national interest and will insist that the country remains a �great economic power�.
What I understand he is saying, is British politicians are nothing abroad if they do not have deep pockets to bribe their way in the world, so the economy is necessary to give those politicians their spending power.
The man on the street isn't interested in Britain's colonial exploits overseas, he just wants to live his life as best he can, and in many respects it is the man on the street that reaps the hatred of foreign nationals for the British elite's past meddling in other countries affairs, not the elite that perpetrated the actions, the public as world news always shows is the receiver of foreign hatred and actions, not the ivory towers.
Even the US dislike for the British over the tea party affair a couple of centuries back, was the action of the elites, not the man on the street at home, America was but a distant land to them, that many might emigrate to and oppose the British elite whence given a home where there is hope and action of a better future.
But national interest, what is Britain's national interest, well seeing as we are not a socialist country, I can only guess the national interest is the same as it has always been the enrichment of the few at the expense of the many, as money is the great pursuader, the political elites want the power to bribe their way around the world, as the age old cheaper option of employing the publicly funded and manned military to swing interests in their favour they know in this present world is increasingly being seen as unpalatabe by the more educated and aware mob, so the only option they have now, is to baffle us with bullshit to tow their line.
But yes, the analogy of ancient Rome is a correct one, and it would do many well to understand that ancient system, as many later empires are modelled on it, and if more understood, they would understand the power of the mob and how the elites must pacify the mob to maintain their status.
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