The Theraputic Society Is Destroying Civilisation

Many of the problems afflicting Britain and its European neighbours and transatlantic cousins appear to be related to what in the recent past has been called The Theraputic Society, Nanny State and paternalistic liberalism. As government (and with it the amount of tax we pay) grows, corporate industry and private business is increasingly coming to resemble the public sector, ruled less by economic rationality than by an intrusive bureaucracy functioning increasingly like an HR department.

Concepts like profit and dividends and values like commitment to quality have become alien in thisd environment; replaced by concerns about Diversity,Inclusivity and Equality; Environmental Social Governance goals; staff welfare and mental health issues and the instruction to “just be kind”.

What is driving this explosion of worklessness. Many of those now receiving incapacity benefits rather than working for wages have been diagnosed as disabled because of mental health conditions, particularly depression. The number of Personal Independence Payment claims based on psychiatric illness rising over 50pc since 2019. Some 1.3 million people now fall into this category and as well as generous benefits are gettin medication and talking therapy when the most effective cure for their condition is a good kick up the arse.

As well as the rise in numbers of people permanently disabled by mental health issues, psychiatric illnesses account for over a quarter of all sick leave in the large organisations.

In the HR state, attempts to shift people into employment are frowned upon as unkind, even though work can be beneficial for mental health problems in the same way as a good kick up the arse can.. And so the taxpayer continues to fork out for workers who don’t work, public services decline, and the tax burden grows.

Once you start to see the growing power of Just Be Kind culture, it soon becomes obvious that it has permeated all levels of society. It’s in the way we speak to each other, with normal, everyday interactions increasingly governed by rules on what ideas and opinions may 'trigger' a sensitive listener, or what level of rudeness incurs civil or criminal liability.

Rather than taking offence – with the implication that we can choose how to respond, including shrugging ill-judged words off – the idea that we are actually harmed by insensitive language has been firmly planted in the minds of many people. And the HR state intervenes to protect us, even to the extent of telling us what we are offended by. Judges are handing out jail sentences to people who are rude online of simply fail to use a person's preferred pronouns, juries and tribunrals are handing massive payouts to those offended by their colleagues at work.

It doesn’t matter if that offence is given with good reason. Demanding adequate performance from highly paid civil servants and employees is out. And getting rid of employees isn’t always an option either: in one notable case, a judge found in favour of an employee complaining about being let go after taking 808 sick days and picking up £96,000 in sick pay).

It is a common misconception that more laws mean greater protection. Legislation has become increasingly complicated and ambiguous for employers. There comes a point when the added benefit is questionable and must be outweighed by the burden which it places on business. This is especially the case for small and medium sized employers who may not have a specialist, in-house HR function staffed by people whose job is to be aware of all the issues surrounding workplace interactions.

In the past twenty years there has been a continuous flow of new employment and human rights laws passed ranging from the new Agency Workers Regulations, the Age Discrimination Regulations to European case law on rights to accrue holidays even while on long term sick leave. New employment legislation is estimated to have added £70 billion per annum to costs for businesses over the last decade.’

The costs of employing people and doing business is bankrupting businesses, and yet the government has confirmed at least 10 new (HR) laws for 2024’

We, along with several other major economic powers have elections to appoint a new governments later this year though because these people are products of the university system and are advised by those who have spend  their entire lives detached from reality in the cocoon of the scholarly environment, will the new lot do any better that the ones who created the current mess. We the voters know what to do of course:

It is necessary to curtail major areas of government spending: welfare, health, education and defence. Emergency cuts, or at least freezes, in welfare benefits and public sector pay are imperative, the kind of measures seen recently in struggling central European countries. We must abandon virtue signalling policies like 'net zero', open borders immigration and the funding of foreign wars. 

 If welfare benefits are not pegged to wage increases then there will be no incentive to work and more people, though able bodied, will claim disability status due to mental health issues.

Longer-term reforms that reduce the scope of government are needed. A new government could start by tackling public sector pensions (a liability of over £1 trillion), move on to welfare reform and then health and education,  cutting waste, terminating the jobs of diversity officers, sensitivity advisers and racial awareness tutors, and getting rid of the costly bureaucrats who compile statistics to justify these expenditures.

And let’s not forget regulation. Removing red tape – for example, the new gender pay audits – would reduce the government payroll while lowering costs for businesses. But no-one running for high office will have the testicular fortitude to do any of this, so they in turn will be removed…..and so will the next ones and so on until someone gets the message.

 

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False Economy

December, and as we brace ourselves for another slew of depressing economic figures it is understandable that consumers aren't spending.

Economists and business people describe national economies as being in one of two states, growth or recession (they never mention the S word of course - stagnation). What state the economy is decided by taking the sum total of certain types of transactions (selected by statisticians) and then deflating this total by a rate of inflation also devised by statisticians and not representative of the essential spending of ordinary people, but of the political interests of whoever is paying the statisticians. A nominal figure for gross domestic product is thus created, adjusted to take account of inconvenient factors like reality, and termed real GDP.

The fist thing to understand about GDP is that it does not measure the health of an economy but only the rate of churn of money within that economy. For example if a government allows one million migrants into the country and pays them £300 a week each, and these immigrants spend their benefits on food, housing, clothes, transport, a little entertainment and a few other things, GDP is increased by £300 million a week, and hey! The case for immigration benefitting the economy is made.

Another GDP scam understate the rate of price inflation, thus showing growth in GDP where in real terms there has been contraction. If GDP grows year on year by less than the rate of price inflation, in real terms the economy has contracted. More paper money has been spent but less goods and services have been paid for. From the inflation scam it only takes a small leap of flawed logic to associate rising prices with an increase in economic activity (i.e. to show more money has moved when we should be looking at the fact that less trade has been done. It also follows, based on the fallacious assumptions of GDP economics, that falling prices are to be avoided at all costs.

Assumptions and statistics. All statistics are based on assumptions and they lead to ridiculous conclusions. As Socrates said 2500 years ago, if we keep questioning in the end we come to the assumption or fallacy all established truths are founded on

The received wisdom that falling prices are bad for business is being questioned by some economists who have at last woken up to the fact that a double triple quadruple dip recession is in fact a depression. The improvement in everyone's standard of living through falling prices for communications, access to data, and the technology in our homes and everyday life could not possibly have happened, the glass is half full merchants chirrup. Here the fallacy stands out like a sore thumb, obviously if only half the glass is full, the other half is empty. For those in work whose earnings have kept pace with or moved ahead of inflation falling prices have been good, they can afford to fill the empty half of their glass. But what of those whose incomes have dropped. Or those formerly affluent people whose jobs have been offshored or taken over by robots. Falling prices, or rather the conditions that have caused prices to fall have not improved their lot.

It does not end there of course, as deflation bites because profits are being squeezed and tax revenues are falling, employment falls further, people in work cut back more, not knowing when they will be hit and unemployment rises. Then taxes must rise more to cover the increased welfare bill and people in work have less spare cash to spend. And so it goes on with that glass looking more empty than full all the time.

And spare a thought for the prostitutes in Greece who due to a glut on the supply side as women are forced to sell themselves to feed their families, and falling demand, are only able to charge €5 for half an hour.

If rising prices are good for the economy, as one school of economics tells us, how come everyone was so unhappy in Germany's Weimar Republic in 1923, or in Zimbabwe fifteen years ago? Surely, as inflation accelerates the happiness level should rise. Conversely as prices fall and consumer goods become cheaper, people's living standards improve and they should become happier. So how come wherever I look, it's only children and retired people with good pensions like myself who are happy.

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Driving Europe Towards Catastrophe

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Feeding The Monster

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UN Panel Says Redesign The World Economy For SustainabilityPoliticians can phrase their press communiques in fine words and soaring rhetoric but in the end they cannot disguise the fact that their latest initiatives on saving civilizartion are just another thinly disguised move towards global government, a global economy and culture the suppression of the individual and a New World Order.

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Dog Depression

The Brown Dog confronts its Black Dog

The once fashionable and prosperous ship-building centre of Dumbarton is the centre of an apparent spate of canine “suicides” after at least five dogs are said to have jumped from a historic bridge in the past six months.

Animal behaviourists are warning owners to keep their dogs on a strong leash when crossing Overtoun bridge.Canine social worker Jock McMutt said "Crivens, its no canine depression the wee duggies're sufferin' fra.

The lads are in fine fettle inside thur heids, theyse enthusiastic an' ready tae chase anything. The problem's cause by teenagers hoyin' thur empty carry - oots over the rail. The wee doggie thinks its a game and sets off tae fetch."

Rev. Jock McHolyjoe responded "the truth is the dugs' wee brains are addled. Dug owners should keep thur pets awa' frae the Ouiske an' Buckie. Dugs are nae meant tae booze."

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