In Ukraine, they are tearing down statues of Alexander Pushkin, and renaming streets that had been named after him. But don't worry, they are also going to legalise pornography to help pay for the war, with some people already taking payment to strip on camera via a "charity project" called Teronlyfans, giving the money to the Armed Forces.
Pornography had been legally prohibited and practically unknown in the Soviet Union, but post-Soviet Russia was flooded with it by and from the West in order to placate the young male population during the larceny of their country by means of the economic "shock therapy" that created today's oligarchs. The rest is history.
That tactic was not new. "Sex work" of various kinds has always been encouraged when the young men have needed to be stupefied, and it still is. The pornogrification of our own society is no accident. Of course, there cannot be a "free" market in general but not in this, which is one of the many reasons why there must not be a "free" market in general. Every economic arrangement is a political choice, not a law of physics. Sohrab Ahmari has come a long way since he was seconding Kevan Jones against me. Thank God for Opus Dei.
Ukraine understands the suppressive role of pornography, and in an astonishing departure from all previous practice, our Government casually admits live on-air that our Special Forces are fighting for this. The United States is supplying it with cluster bombs and with F16s, while, with American permission, the latter are also being supplied by Denmark and the Netherlands.
Britain is even worse, supplying Ukraine with the weapon of mass destruction that is depleted uranium, and doing so on a cross-party basis that appears to extend to every single member of the House of Commons. With that level of support, a World War has begun over whether Kupiansk should experience its fifth change of sovereignty in the last 100 years, between Vladimir Putin and this.
But when I tell you that there is going to be a hung Parliament, then you can take that to the bank. I spent the 2005 Parliament saying that it was psephologically impossible for the Heir to Blair's Conservative Party to win an overall majority. I predicted a hung Parliament on the day that the 2017 General Election was called, and I stuck to that, entirely alone, all the way up to the publication of the exit poll eight long weeks later. And on the day that Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, I predicted that a General Election between him and Keir Starmer would result in a hung Parliament.
To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.
I'd never thought of that about Russia but you're right, the USSR's state controlled economy didn't make porn.
ReplyDeleteRussia was flooded with it to stupefy the young men who should have been in revolt against the economic "shock therapy". A variation on the oldest trick in the book.
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