Political correctness

As well as helping to evolve society, political correctness also provides the means for the wolf to profile as the sheep. That is, the means to be deceptive by playing the role that is expected rather than the role that comes naturally from the heart and soul.

Wu-Tang-Clan/Les Nubians Philosophy

The following Philosophical realisation is a product of the Wu-Tang-Clan. "Love is the highest elevation of understanding". The following philosophical realisation is a product of Les Nubians (a  black french female music duo). "What you understand, reflections of yourself".

The two philosophical statements go hand in hand. "Love is the highest elevation of understanding" suggests that it is through the ability to understand someone that one can develop a love for someone. "What you understand, reflections of yourself" suggests that what it is that you can truly understand represents an element of yourself within it and therefore reflects a part of you from within it. Perhaps this is why we generally tend to love members of our family more so than anyone one else, because our family are literally, a reflection of parts of ourselves.

These philosophies then, might help in understanding why certain people may tend to love or hate certain people. It is also possible that somebody might not like someone else because they have not had a chance to get to know what that person is about and therefore cannot understand the reasoning behind that persons behaviour.

Differences between people may be even more pronounced if they belong to a different worldview consciousness. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (2008) believes that within the human race there are gaps in consciousness that represent the different worldviews that constitute the human race. The two most polarised worldviews being the Afro-centric worldview and the Euro-centric worldview, which both have a unique way of 'being' and 'seeing' the universe, which defines the rationale or reason behind behaviour. 

The best hope for living in harmony without resentment, is to allow everyone to be who they are and to express themselves without fear of rebuke (as long as it is not harmful to others). To understand and accept that a gap in consciousness exists across the human race, that is a gap between what it is that one person can perceive or see and what another person can perceive or see and therefore accepting the blindspots that exist within our own consciousness instead of trying to impose our own limitations or confines onto others.         

Gods Actors

Actors can play the perfect role for you. They have within them the capacity to produce a performance that god is in, that is, a performance that connects with you, your 360 degree reality, the reality of your universe, your soul. In that moment captured on film that actor or actress has been designed by god to be part of your reality, your universe, your journey.

I see no difference here to all people who you encounter who god has designed for a role in your life's journey. The wisdom here is that reality, that is the reality of ones universe dictates that it is only this perfect role that is relevant to us and therefore that one must train oneself to let go of anything that one fears to lose because attachment is greed and misery. Only god is the constant in ones life, the architect of your soul and the only one who can quench the thirst of your soul. Flesh or the physical, void of god, is chaotic, it is also by design, fleeting and transient.

Lenny Henry emigration row with UKIP candidate

Last year Lenny Henry tweeted that there was a poor representation of ethnic minorities on British television. In response to this tweet a UKIP Enfield candidate William Henwood, on his twitter account tweeted: "He should emigrate to a black country. He does not have to live with whites."

This racist response from William Henwood suggesting that Lenny Henry who is a British institution, should emigrate to a black country where he will not have to live with whites, I find astonishing in relation to its level of ignorance. It suggests that some how all ethnic minority peoples are the same and identify themselves within the racial category of black and furthermore that all white British people are the same and subscribe to a white supremacist agenda of exclusion and that this fictional white group of people are morally destitute with an inability to evolve in their way of thinking. It also suggests that this fictional white group of people live in a vacuum without the real life affect of cultural exchange, which gives birth to hybrid cultures that contribute to the constant redefinition of what British culture is and what it means to be British.

We can therefore identify that the issue, which Lenny Henry has raised in relation to the lack of ethnic minority representation on British television has got nothing at all to do with white British people as a heterogenous group of individuals with conflicting ideological beliefs, but with those white or not who sustain institutional racism within television, which serves an agenda of white supremacy and privilege.

Also worth mentioning here is a debate, which took place on BBC One's Sunday Morning Live programme, which took place last year, entitled: "Is the UK too hostile to immigration?" On the programme Springwatch presenter Bill Oddie expressed that he felt ashamed to be British because of the way in which the British socio-political agenda has historically constructed immigration as villainous. I believe that this topic, which Bill Oddie engaged with, has its roots embedded in the beginning of British chauvinism, which began as a response to the Norman invasion by William the conqueror in 1066. British mythology claimed that before the Norman invasion, perfect Saxon liberties were enjoyed throughout the land, in a sort of pure blood Saxon utopia. From this moment the seed of British racial chauvinism was sewn, especially in relation to immigration. In 20th century post-war Britain West Indian immigration was seen as a source of sorrow for the British people as they continued to come to terms with the dissolution of empire and their immediate economic circumstances. In short there is an irrational racist British ideology that is intrinsically linked to immigration, which blames immigration for the shortcomings of the British people. This is not to say that there are not genuine problems linked to immigration but that there is an irrational historically racist dimension to the British immigration debate.

In response to Bill Oddie's statement, he was challenged by the presenter Sian Williams to leave Britain if he did not like it. Now this suggestion by Sian Williams seems awfully similar to the suggestion by former UKIP candidate William Henwood that Lenny Henry should emigrate if he does not like the status quo in Britain. These suggestions unequivocally support a racist agenda of non change, they are ignorant and lazy statements that remove responsibility from the debate. If you love your country, which I am sure Lenny Henry and Bill Oddie do, then surely you want it to be the best that it can be, you want to help to fix the problems that it has so that you can truly be proud of it, I imagine in the same way one would want to be proud of any loved one. So it seems quite bizarre that because somebody wants to address the faults of their country, they are presumed to be better off leaving the country that they love. It also suggests that Britain is this homogenous edifice of racists with no desire to change for the better. Finally I would like the reader to reflect on what sort of country Britain would be today if everyone who fought for positive change was expunged?

   

 

Immaturity

Immaturity, similarly to human reason is a product of the human principle of error, an error which cannot be transcended because we are not god or all seeing and knowing beings. Immaturity is born out of shortsightedness, which can become all consuming and acute, thus evoking the emotion in a bid to come to terms with our frustrations.

Love

Love cannot be found anywhere within the skilful art of rhetoric. Rather it resides immovable, within a silent agreement.

A balanced personality

One measure of a truly balanced personality, is to possess the requisite insight that allows one to perceive ones humble position within the universe to the point where ones own existence does not seem quite as important as the lives of others.

Pure righteousness

In a conversation with an old friend once, I suggested that there was no point in buying my mother a present or card for her birthday with her own money, to which my friend explained that I was mistaken! This conversation comes back to me now as I sit in the cinema spilling popcorn on the floor in memory of my mother who loved popcorn and who I selfishly begrudged for sharing mine once upon a time, instead of bathing in the joy of someone so selfless who found joy in a very rare moment of self centred consumption.

In my mothers untimely death I have now learnt the true meaning of my old friends words and have realised that it is never too late to share or do the right thing and that in being righteous there are no excuses.

Fate

Tonight an inanimate object appeared to disappear into thin air as I took my eyes off of it for a second in my preparation for bed. I cannot make sense of this and so it is as if by godly magic this inanimate object simply vanished in an impressive illusion.

The lesson here is interesting, in that through our lapse in concentration, a gap in our memory, overwhelming emotions or any other inhibitor of insight, we are made unaware of movement or reality extending beyond our perceptual universe, because perception is subjective and not objective or all knowing because we are not god or a superior all knowing force and therefore it is our subjectivity that reveals our human flaw and the fact that we are subjects of a higher power because we lack the ability of absolute control. It is this subjective veil that provides the grime reaper with his cloak of invisibility, an ability which is embedded within the trajectory of our subjectivity, our genetic equations, our experiences, which play out within an interconnected web of life forces that make up the universe. 

I cannot perceive any equation that transcends this matrix of destiny or fate, but then who am I but someone who is helplessly trapped within his own subjectivity who eagerly awaits enlightenment to wake him from his subjective slumber.