Political Agendas

Having dealt with various groups from admin level down to ordinary member, you get to meet all kinds. In real life profession I had the opportunity to interact with people of various nationalities from all levels of society, in and out of their countries. Although the internet provides a degree of anonymity, it isn’t that hard to suss out the deceitful by their limited choice of words. Interestingly, in many groups, allegedly seeking a global audience, tend to forget that their ideals are not necessarily the way of the world. This easily degenerates into an echo chamber of xenophobic acolytes, gradually fobbing off anything not ad populum in their books. In two UK groups, I became targeted by what turned out to be the divided front between two politically motivated attempts for a lobby. The first one was by the state religion trying to dictate all seculars into one charge. The second one was a heathen group trying oppose that by siding with dubious nationalists (say nothing of the notorious Nigel Farage). It was plain to see that this would not end well so I got the hell away from that lot. They couldn’t even get it through their heads, that despite my father’s British passport, I had sod-all to do with any of it. I’m an EU citizen by rights of legitimate choice, regardless whether you like it or not.


Then I was invited to a site on Ning for a little comic relief, until it turned into a right circus of new age wannabe gurus, and hell knows what else. Then along came some BDSM whack job with a huge repertoire of outlandish esoterica, and they all flew off like moths to the flame. When the Chinese took over we tried our luck on various other platforms including FB and Reddit, but it seems the hoards are more into rebellious fashion statements than anything ethnically traditional. Still, I’m going to keep that subterfuge going, back to php boards for those of us who are fed up with all the snake oil trying to depreciate science. Those of us who were always bog standard naturalists, come what may.


I still belong to a number of special interest groups, but that list is steadily shrinking with the recent political turn of events. I see that demon of xenophobia again, taking a stranglehold on free independent will. It’s particularly bad when Americans come onto me like being German is congenitally national socialist, when the whole time they’re trying to enforce their patriotism like it’s the new world order. Don’t you see, that’s exactly how it all started. I digress, ask yourselves who it was that backed that psychopath when Hindenburg, in all his senility, admitted defeat? Who was it that got the biggest share of Nazi scientists, and where did all the rest go, after the Nuremberg trials? What goes around, comes around.