Britishness - the Orwellian version
I was going to do a joke about schools teaching Britishness to avoid the dreadful danger of middle-aged Englishwomen being radicalised by reading the Anglo-Saxon epic of Judith but life beat me to it.There's a nice flavour of 1984 in the way the council were then sent for
It also turns out that the reason why the travellers in question were there in the first place is that the Cambridgeshire Constabulary are rubbish at police harassement. We're English: we don't do that sort of thing.
Bizarrely, while trawling for an online Anglo-Saxon site for the Judith, google threw up a link to the BNP site as a place to buy Alfred the Great's translation of Boethius (link here is to amazon). Not exactly Mein Kampf, is it?
"I now think that foolish men will marvel at what I said a while ago, that wicked men were naught, seeing they are more in number than the others. But even if they were never to believe it, yet it is true nevertheless; the wicked man we can never account pure and single-hearted, any more than we can call or account a dead man a living one. The living man is of even less account than the dead, if he repent not of his sin; but he that liveth an unruly life, and will not be true to his own nature, the same is naught.
Yet I fancy thou wilt say the cases are not alike that the wicked man is able to do evil though not good, whereas the dead man can do neither; but I say unto thee that the power of the wicked comes not from any virtue but from sins. If the wicked were ever good, they would do no evil. That a man can do evil is not power, but weakness; and if that be true which we proved before, that there is no evil, then he that works evil does naught."
posted by Brituncula @ 10:20 AM
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