Ciaphas Cain

This is a superb piece by @Madz_Grant. Weirdly, it touches on a theme I have been talking a lot about recently. A great deal of 1990s television was the last moment when inherited British middle and upper middle class culture could appear on screen without apology. Two Fat Ladies, Food and Drink, Keith Floyd, Lovejoy, Inspector Morse, Jancis Robinson's Wine Course, A Year in Provence, Jeeves and Wooster, older Countryfile, and parts of Antiques Roadshow carried assumptions that are now much weaker in British broadcasting. With its unapologetic emphasis on meat, dairy and a motorbike roaring through the British countryside, Two Fat Ladies would not merely be considered unfashionable today. It would be judged as being fundamentally incompatible with the moral priorities of Net Zero by 2050! I wouldn’t blame New Labour entirely, because some of these programmes were still being made in the 2000s. But I do blame the Conservatives for failing to conserve the cultural inheritance they claimed to value. They did not do enough to challenge the 1997 settlement. Indeed, they turbocharged it. That is why these programmes feel so strange now when you watch them on YouTube. They captured a country that still had a coherent sense of itself. spectator.com/article/the-gl…

This is a superb piece by @Madz_Grant. Weirdly, it touches on a theme I have been talking a lot about recently. A great deal of 1990s television was the last moment when inherited British middle and upper middle class culture could appear on screen without apology. Two Fat Ladies, Food and Drink, Keith Floyd, Lovejoy, Inspector Morse, Jancis Robinson's Wine Course, A Year in Provence, Jeeves and Wooster, older Countryfile, and parts of Antiques Roadshow carried assumptions that are now much weaker in British broadcasting. With its unapologetic emphasis on meat, dairy and a motorbike roaring through the British countryside, Two Fat Ladies would not merely be considered unfashionable today. It would be judged as being fundamentally incompatible with the moral priorities of Net Zero by 2050! I wouldn’t blame New Labour entirely, because some of these programmes were still being made in the 2000s. But I do blame the Conservatives for failing to conserve the cultural inheritance they claimed to value. They did not do enough to challenge the 1997 settlement. Indeed, they turbocharged it. That is why these programmes feel so strange now when you watch them on YouTube. They captured a country that still had a coherent sense of itself. spectator.com/article/the-gl…

In the BBC comedy Red Dwarf, the crew encounter an artificial life form which is, unknown to them, made up of all the inhabitants of its ship. Legion. Legion, keeps them prisoner to sustain his own existence. At one stage, Lister hatches an escape plan based on a film called Revenge of the Surfboarding Killer Bikini Vampire Girls which he assumes will succeed because no one else in the universe will have seen it. It fails as Legion, “benefitting” from Lister’s intelligence, knows of that plan too. During the brief scuffle, Legion's face-plate falls away to show his face is a composite of all four of his prisoners (with Lister's contribution disappearing during a brief instance of unconsciousness). I am of the opinion that @kunley_drukpa is Legion. He knows exactly as much as we know collectively. No more, no less. In the days of the early internet one assumes Kunley could manifest >160 IQ insight into matters of technology. However, as the world has come online the breadth of cultural understanding has skyrocketed alongside a tragic collapse in intelligence. The Eternal September. If my hypothesis is correct then BILLIONS must be disconnected from internet.

@Babygravy9 The real damage they have done is not to the girls They have turned white identity into a branch of feminist me too hysteria All of you right wing guys are just feminists moaning about the brown patriarchy now, saying believe all women. Nothing exists outside of that ⛓️🌹