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There was a brilliant article from political researcher and analyst Kos Samaras last week:
“Burn it all down movements” https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/burn-it-all-down-movements/ “Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York reveals the collapse of the entire post-World War II political settlement that shaped Western democracies for three generations”
This is a far more eloquent and forceful presentation of what I have been trying to write about for some time - especially in emails to politicians.
My arguments have been along the lines of:
political parties need to genuinely respond to young people's valid concerns - especially the climate crisis, but also inequality, and the loss of affordable housing to corporate capture of those political parties - if they are going to survive, which is also the result of my and preceding generations totally ****ing up our responsibilities for the future (especially every fool who got scammed by neoliberalism)
Mr Samaras has summed up that the current political establishment is dead, and we are returning to the old, dynamic version - the version that I consider would be better served by combining a few adjoining electorates into larger but multi-member electorates across the nation, the approach that was thrown out a few years ago in our local government scene - and basically, IMO to cater for patriarchal, toxic masculinity, authoritarian tendencies, the tendencies that have seen all my emails and other efforts (for decades, actually) fall on deaf ears ... (or blind eyes)
These changes will also extend to things like the future of the UN, but we will see more parties and micro-parties springing up as the mainstream parties die out.
One of my other realisations has been just how devastating all the attacks on confidence of children and young people in this toxic, soul crushing, neoliberal culture have been - to the extent of making paid work impossible for some people and/or causing extreme illness in some and/or stopping people seeking help they are entitled to under current systems ... and that also can be blamed on the patriarchal, toxic masculinity, authoritarian flaws of people who have various types of power ...
Combined with some urgent family issues, all this has led to me considering some major life changes - more to come in due course. Both realisations - the political change, and the depths of illness that can be caused by lack of confidence/fear - feel like end of life passages, and I feel quite comfortable about making major changes as a result (including acknowledging I may be too far ahead of my time, and thus letting go now of all I am trying to do for someone else to rediscover or rechannel at a future date).
Possible flaws
Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:
- there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan
Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
- I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
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