Smoke and Mirrors

Okay so you voted out, not because you support racism, but want to see the great back in Britain? Well that's your call. As for the rest of us Europeans, we have our own matters to contend with, let alone the mess you've already left behind. As much as we regret your decision, it's not so much your choice that disappoints us, but through what lobby you made that choice, unaware that its not just the UK they want, but have their perpetrators in our countries as well, trying to divide us. In fact, this was the game plan your oh so well meaning Nigel Farage related to me on FB, before I blocked his impertinent ass. I am a German, you have no idea what the Nazis did to my mother and her family. I know the polemic and the blame-shifting smear campaigns, and there it was all over my FB wall. I told a friend of mine to knock it off, that's when he pitched up and it just got worse. I told him to bugger off, I'm not a member of his constituency. So, he started pushing the AfD and Front Nationale at me and that's when I pulled the plug. Conspiracy theory? Yeah, tell me it’s just a figment of my paranoid imagination. Go ahead and sue me you bastard.

Now you wonder why your parties are falling apart for all the resignations and in-fighting? It's called the tactics of division to give the instigator an uncontested majority he couldn't get through a proper election. If you want to call that a democracy then you obviously don't know the difference between solidarity and segregation. Save the proselytizing and see the blame game for what it is. There are no angry mobs taking to the streets around here, just his cronies. It's not like us Germans don't know the duplicities that come with that kind of talk. Your problem if you don't think it could happen to you, because it just did.

I remember Gary and the Arthurian Legends. It would have been very interesting if it were true, but that was obviously not what it was really about. It was this strange thing they call patriotism under the flag of St.George. Then one day he asked if I would sign the petition to support the British troops in Afghanistan. This was probably the last time I had to explain that I'm a German citizen, resident in Germany. My vote doesn't qualify- that aside the fact that our own troops are out there on a limb too. Needless to say, I got unfriended. Now had it been an EU petition, I would have seen sense in signing it.Or I could have said "thank you I've signed it because it's such a good thing", and leave him satisfied with himself. This was the strange thing about that particular lot, like trying to speak with them from behind a mirror, but I got tired of it.

Brexit Fecksit

Frankly, I'd rather not think about it, because it's not like anything I say is going to change anything, but I'm still gonna say it anyway because it's not like I didn't see it coming. I remember my first time in London back in 1967, the trendy fashions of Carnaby street. A nice hot cup of Typhoo in a little Soho sandwich shop to escape that perpetual grey. We even met Michael Caine running a colourful little souvenir stand on the Strand, demonstrating how to speak cockney. In those days the common market was still in its baby steps and each had its own unique blend of wares and ideas. The shear diaspora of it really seemed so magical. Despite all unstable exchange rates, people still had the freedom to be personally creative to at least maintain some kind of continuity in their lives. When it all became the EEC that changed, not because of the tariff agreements, but the greed of big business, cheap mass production (and of course OPEC) swallowing up all the small competitors. They dictated the trend and then enforced their own restrictions. There the demon of globalization began to raise its ugly head. It didn't matter where I went, it was all the same rubbish, nor did the standards ensure quality. Of course when that market overdid it, they expected governments to bail them out or face massive unemployment, then fired them anyway. Loans to plug the deficit never got paid and without a viable GNP, taxpayers couldn't foot the bill either. Then 9/11 did the rest on the foregone promise of Iraqi oil. It didn't matter if us Europeans didn't buy it, the world banks centralized anyway, and failing this, foreclosed, and demanded their bailouts too; then came Spain, Italy and Greece. Germany's been scraping bottom since the wall came down, but still everyone takes us for some kind of socialist utopia, thriving on impossible riches stashed in some unheard of off-shore account. All these stupid demands for preferential treatment, threatening to throw the baby out with the bath water just leaves us cold. Did Norway make a fuss or threats when they opted out for the less demanding EEA arrangement? Don't talk to me about Iceland, because they still owe the central bank more than they can ever pay off, no matter what they do.


 I remember the Dover ferry, all those whiners hanging around the duty free, always complaining about the EC and avoiding us foreigners like we had something contagious. I don't think I've ever heard them not complain about the EEC, the EU or how us foreigners are just not like them, as if we should feel obligated. Well, guess what, I could say the same of them because it seems no matter where I've tried to communicate with that lot, they're too full of themselves to make sense of anyone else. So, don't cry at me about all the lies you've been told when you can't fess up to your own stupid mistakes. You've sold out to your own inner schweinehund, so you're just gonna have to sink or swim like the rest of us. No preferential treatment, you had your chance too many times already, like the foolish child who kept crying wolf. You have yet to learn that the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend if you keep playing the blame game.


P.S. Note that I am addressing this rant to the sheeple who think the bully-boy vigilante tactics of undermining partnerships through blame shifting defamation, especially motivated by the unlikeliest promises, is anything other than a narcissistic want of its own absolute power. So you say its not about racism. Ask yourself what UKIP and its affiliates like the AfD and the Front Nationale stand to gain from breaking up the whole EU? You don’t think so? Most didn’t think so about the Beer-Hall Putsch either.

Cultural Mis-identity

I often get the typical assertions from North American neo-pagans that they're ethnically some kind of nationality or another. What they often forget is this thing we call „Zeitgeist“, namely the period attitudes of a culture. Take for instance what the English call a mid-Victorian. It refers to a pious abstinence bound to keep a few rude skeletons in the closet. Indeed , the Victorian Age was rather schismic in this way; with its stiff-upper lip ethos on outward appearances of the upper class wannabe catering to the gentry. What they don't tell you about is the household concubine, just in case peerage has its patrilineal shortcomings. Of course whatever doesn't measure up to that regime, stays among the servants until further notice. This way, all due secrets are kept neatly in the family closet. Failing this, there were always magisterial opportunities elsewhere, namely the colonies. That is where my father's parents landed.


On my mother's side, things were a hell of alot more complicated. As magistrates of the Hapsburgs, they were appalled by Bismarck giving in to the national socialists. It was their worst nightmare become reality. Her father landed in a labour camp, and she was involuntarily conscripted into the Luftwaffe and treated with utmost suspicion and contempt. Much of her family committed suicide rather than divulge the names of their jewish employees. Needless to say, at the first window of opportunity she fled to Prag, then managed to get the last train out of Dresden We've had a bitch of a time trying to track down all the records for some kind of compensation but between the military archives of England, America and Poland and each wanting a ridiculous fee, it's futile. After being employed by NATO at the time when Putin was liaison officer in Baden, there's no doubt the KGB had all that on file too. This may seem so long ago but I still shake my head saying WTF? when I think about it. So when people talk to me about their alleged ethnic roots, they should ask themselves about the circumstances that landed them when and where, before assuming they can relate to some ethnicity or another.


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