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April 18
Knowledge is Power 'The Boy Scientist' 1926 edition - 'without knowledge no man can be free' - 'without knowledge you are subservient to the whims and wishes of other people'. The most powerful (off the top of my head) social theories: 'Lamarckadian Thought' Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (viruses) 'Stream of Consciousness' Naguib Mahfouz - 'The Proper Structuralised View of the World' Erich Fromm (and) 'The Infantile Situation' Geza Roheim (and) 'Important Civilizations' and 'orientation is impossible without a map' Bertrand Russell. On Cultural Transference: 'The Domestic Influence'. Peter J Wilson 'The Domestication Of The Human Species'. "Privacy is inextricably bound with giving and receiving attention". 'The Making of the Human Mind' by Colin Renfrew and the 5 sequential stages of human development, "a very persuasive one". The first three stages are 'uni-lineal' (where the idea of memes or memetics of Prof R.Dawkins is found to be a bit loose in its terminology) as in the evolution to Homo sapiens from Homo erectus. Based on 'Origins of the Modern Mind' Merlin Donald 1991 and refined by Colin Renfrew and later - accepted by Donald. Of course, 'The Long Childhood' J.Bronowski and his definition of the (inherent) 'closed system of thought' or 'the clever imbeciles' of A.Koestler.
*Parents duty to know - History, Evolution and Cosmology. Without (HEC) we are prisoners of the times (in 'the closed system of thought' of Koestler's 'Clever Imbeciles') and are at the mercy of every crackpot idea and political nonsense. No solid base and therefore no freedom, producing no ideas. But, duty is a dirty word today! The uneducated are not conscious of History. The rise of the West and why? The connection between - freedom and capitalism; the psychological fallacy; natural selection and selection of groups in history; or the 'freedom of ideas'. No 'freedom of ideas', such as in religious or secular; dogma or ideology. See, 'Ascent of Man' of Bronowski's, at the end of his DVD 'The Long Childhood' and the DVD's of Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' series and film 'Contact' - Carl Sagan's worldview, as demonstrated in Contact, is critiqued from a ... Ellie's data instruments recorded a full 18 hours--not a few seconds--of static. http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/contact.html The must have book, 'The Demon-Haunted World' C.Sagan. The 'closed system of thought' and the 'clever imbeciles' of A.Koestler and his 'Jerusalem Sadness' - 'Bricks To Babel'.
"Jenni Murray presents a special Programme on Raising Teenagers."
Listening to the news bulletins would lead you to believe that our teenagers are out of control. The picture is terrifying - a generation involved in violent crime, drug abuse, binge drinking and having underage and unprotected sex. But how true a picture is this? What is it really like to be a teenager at this time, and what challenges do we face, as parents and carers to the new generation?
Jenni will be finding out about the physical and mental changes which take place as children mature into adults - and hearing how these developments create some of the stereotypical teenage behaviour. Ref, DVD 'The Long Childhood' Bronowski - obviously, science has come a long way, but Bronowski has the art and the emotion, to show the way, or to bring some light, on those particularly perilous years. http://www.bbcshop.com/History/Ascent-Of-Man-DVD/invt/bbcdvd1608
She discusses how to manage problematic parenting situations. And, in the light of all the headlines about gun and knife crime, she asks what can be done to help disaffected young people in society?
Including drama: Restless. BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Woman's Hour, 15/04/2009
Some Notes, from Notes:
13) Immaturity of Youth (see, Farb p30-31) Today's high school and college students are sexually and socially mature, while technologically still juveniles. Denied the economic and social benefits to which maturity entitles them, simply because they have not yet acquired all of the technologies skills needed in the modern world; young people may become restless and antisocial in their behaviour. (menstruation females 1900-14 - 14-15 years - now? 1980's 12.6 years. An evolutionary trend?
16) Advice to young. Do not engage in any causes or political movements (*exception - Climate Change - War - Ignorance - Poverty http://libcom.org/history/march-2003-schoolkids-against-iraqi-war). Timescale is too short. Just - learn, teach, and explore, and add a little knowledge to the world - remain free in every sense and very mobile.
17) Respect for authority is always wrong and violence is sometimes right. Karl Popper.
18) It will require a supreme and concerted effort of the best scientific brains, to pull man out of his mess and to diagnose and to recognise his complaint.
20) Becoming Human is a process which still continues. Always bear in mind the short time scale of civilization.
21) The dream worlds of "Capitalism and Socialism" - see, Koestler's essay, as outdated, as the "Wars of The Roses".
22) It is science and philosophy which rule the world, and it has always been so, but there is a long time lag. Construct a chart showing this.
23) Conditions for survival of the human race.
1) Nature is objective - not projective.
2) Man is part of nature and a single 'super species' (freak of the universe).
3) History is a race between education and catastrophe.
4) Only use of the best scientific brains, can succeed in making world of humans work.
24) We have the facts of human behaviour in our history books. All we require is a best-able theory to explain those facts.
25) What is the psychological reason for most men's indifference to nature; whereas physics and biology are difficult - sociology and government should be easily agreed functions and not worth much serious attention (The Infantile Situation): like drains or water services. Stacks of jobs to do, if you want a job, or more education, just needs: a focus of basic attention and finance by (lazy - inept) National or Local Authorities: a good reason for our young to rebel and to claim their world from their massively overtly greedy peers (example, bankers, 'overpaid officials', and some advisors). http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2009/04/map_of_the_week_young_victims.html
28) "High technology has made the world a global village. This village will only prosper if people realize that fact and grow from it". Sir Peter Parker, New Scientist Magazine.
29) Democracy = the role of the ignorant masses. Whole mental attitude, is geared to supplying them with their trivial wants, satisfying their desires and disconnect urges.
30) Like an animal, it cannot think about itself.
32) Freedom must be taught, because conformism, not freedom is natural. Most education is directed to producing conditioned and behaving animals. Forster, page 123 - look it up.
53) Becoming human is a process - not an event. 'Ape or Angel' - Mans place in nature? 54) This is the age of the anti-hero, where all heroes are exposed as cowards, liars or maniacs. An age in which individuals are told that anything unpleasant which happens to them is the fault of somebody else. What are these amoral, spiritually empty, lumps of humanity; supposed to study? Some sugary pap, which goes under the 'generic' name of "relationships". Having grasped that they are helpless tools of their appetites and social conditioning, men, and women, are expected to seek out their fellows waifs and establish some bond with them. I pity any institution forced to tell such people to leave undone that which they would rather do. See, Brian Walden, Sunday Times - 21st Feb 1988. 55) The uneducated are not conscious of History. The rise of the West and why? The connection between - freedom and capitalism, the psychological fallacy, natural selection and selection of groups in history, or the freedom of ideas. Read again 'The Triumph of The West' and put in plain succinct language. Will the trend continue? Yes, because of, freedom of ideas?
Despite dreadful setbacks: vis:- ignorant youth moulded by a rapacious media. The damp squib of Socialism and Communism, the deep ignorance of the young and not so young, elitism is correct (prove this by historical example). "The masses must be whipped towards a future that only the leaders can see. Every beast is driven to the pasture with blows". The thin crust of civilization is maintained by the very few. Capacity for contempt - Lawrence, re - youth? How do ideas come by: not having to think of the next thing and a freedom from necessity (example, Greece), except: for the exceptionally experienced and intelligent who can separate themselves from 'The sleep of everyday living' and everyone's 'awful personal disasters'. This, personally and for everyone is a difficult problem and may revolve around the correct use of time. The busy may have their brains so stimulated that a switch to 'deeper things' comes very much easier.
Mind Maps For Children "What Shall We Tell The Children?" http://www.mindmeister.com/13207398 Social science - Matrix: mind map. Simple proper (scientific - without superstition) matrices for parents and parenting.
"We keep children safe to let them run wild" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3563581/We-keep-children-safe-to-let-them-run-wild.html
April 13
UK, Parliament; (childish, esp, Local Government) Party Politics; Traditions; Monarchy; Church of England; House of Lords; Unelected Peers - Spiritual; Lawmakers, so on... : 'falls' - well within, the 'Infantile Situation' of propaganda / doctrine / dogma of 'Britishness' or 'British-ness' http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/customs/traditions.cfm
Growing world population will cause a "perfect storm" of food, energy and water shortages by 2030, the UK government chief scientist has warned. Prof John Beddington Global Crisis by 2030 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7951838.stm And, www.NewScientist.com 'Meltdown'. "Forget polar bears, the rapid warming in the Arctic could be a catastrophe for us all." Fred Pearce, reports. 28th March 2008.
http://www.ageofstupid.net/ 'Making us all feel guilty; when really this problem (the major part of it) lies at the feet of the directors of Shell, BP, and the lack of government regulations, so on...' Ref, BBC Newsnight Review of 'The Age of Stupid'.
Hoping for change to: the political/constitutional; politician's; directors (CEO's) within the major industries - the major cause of global warming:- a 'paradigm shift' of attitude within Great Britain's 'locked and shocked' seizure (the credit crunch, banking crisis, social, moral and very stupid political corruptness) and the social infantile situation ('the infantile situation' GB). Without this paradigm shift, perhaps nothing will happen, until it is far too late for the survival of many of our children into 2030 and beyond!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7996394.stm Speaking on behalf of Eastside Climate Action, Bob Andrews said, "We don't know anything about the arrests last night. It wasn't us and we don't know who has been arrested. But if people were planning to shut [the plant] down like we tried to do two years ago then that is great news. We would fully support people taking safe and responsible action to stop carbon emissions. Ratcliffe is the third biggest single source of CO2 in the country; it has got to be closed down if we are serious about climate change." Ref, "Thinking about doing something" and you get arrested? What is going on? Or, is it another example of our worst fears coming to some fruition - the appalling spectre of 'The Thought Police' in the UK? Ref, The Dustbin Stasi. And - 'I am too frightened to go to a Demonstration'. Brave - 'New World Order Emerging' - Unelected Dictator Brown http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai0hXYVc9XA "People who are hungry, people who are out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made" Barack Obama 'The Audacity of Hope'. Ref, Great Britain's - little Dictators: MP Gordon Brown. Released - The Power StationProtesters http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7997598.stm and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/samleith/3563901/Government-plan-to-ban-criminal-memoirs-is-moronic.html and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8130520.stm
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK ... a devalued GB pound, 2.5 million unemployed and 2 million on other ... I am sure the twin infantile parasites Andy G and David Welch will try to justify ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/5653287/Into-the-red-red-red-we-sink-with-Brown.html
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Smacking, Beating and Drugging: Children. Private Schools - Public Schools. Sexual Abuse. Church Schools, Faith Schools, Childcare Institutions. UK.
BAFTA Award - Documentary - Chosen http://www.chosen.org.uk/ 'Selected Groomed Abused'
'The Making Of Them' Nick Duffell (Starvation with Kaolin and Morphine) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jRNVLgfJHKkC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=Preparatory+School.+Kaolin+and+Morphine.&source=bl&ots=tVpRMR9mQj&sig=mqIWTBRqnfzXcvj7xq_sHXLv_KY&hl=en&ei=zffaSZeIM4GUjAf52YG-CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Very difficult to remember (only the blank and comforting - moments). Hundreds of girls heavily sedated in UK care homes during the 1970s and 1980s may be at risk of having children with birth defects, the BBC has found. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7985912.stm What else went on? In the name of a, convenient - something or other: 'the mind boggles'!
At present (locked within the circle or circus), we all have to 'put up with' - 'an infantile situation'.
The Infantile Situation
'Becoming human is a process and not some event'
(martyrdom and unseen libidinal ties)
"In every primitive (anthropological anomie/anomy - anomic, bricoleurs or Bricolage - pre-logical) tribe we find the medicine man in the centre of society and it is easy to show that the medicine man (sometimes: a leader, politician, doctor, evangelist, priest... celebrity or royal, i.e., one who knows what is best for all others) is either a neurotic or a psychotic or at least that his art is based on the same mechanisms as a neurosis or a psychosis. Human groups are actuated by their group ideals, and these are always based on the infantile situation. The infancy situation is modified or inverted by the process of maturation, again modified by the necessary adjustment to reality, yet it is there and supplies those unseen libidinal ties without which no human groups could exist. The medicine men are the leaders in this infantile game and the lightning conductors of common anxiety. They fight the demons so that others can hunt the pray and in general fight reality." ('fight reality', as reality (science) could be most unpalatable, to most or some people: depending on their culture and education i.e., knowledge of reality, not - 'myth or theology', superstition...so on...) Geza Roheim 'The Origin and Function of Culture'. Ref, modern - Christian (Sainthood and Martyrs) and Islamic or Muslim - 'rewards' of/in/being (a) martyr, or the martyrising of something or someone) 'martyrdom and unseen libidinal ties': others in folk tales, Dawkins's 'Hoodwink'd with Faery Fancy', so on... At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. Matthew 18:1-5. Ref, 'The protracted helplessness of the new born and the consequent uncritical submissiveness to authority'.
Chilling - now, trust your GP, Psychiatrist, Mental Health Messiah, Police, Government, Social Care Institution, Child Care Institution, and of course, the very famous 'Dustbin Stasi' interpreters of Anti-Terror Legislation; with a human, veterinary, custom made - psychotropic immobiliser injection! Ref, BBC Radio4 Today an interview with someone who had had one, and she explained exactly what this felt like! http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7982000/7982021.stm
April 10
Union leaders say the tests are damaging to pupils and demean staff.
"Just think about what a real education for these children would involve. It would start by giving a child an understanding of himself, his world, his culture, his community. That's the starting point of any educational process. That's what makes a child hungry to learn - the promise of being part of something, of mastering his environment." Barack Obama. Ref, 'Primitive Britain'.
"Teaching is a vocation and not a profession. The child was not invented for educational systems, but educational systems invented for the child. If you would encourage the pupil to increased growth by your knowledge, you must both love it and know it well, and your pupils will love both the knowledge and yourself, and you will benefit them. But if you yourself do not love it, then, no matter by what means you force them to learn, your knowledge will have no educative influence at all". Tolstoy - 'Education and Culture'.
Also, "As soon as man reaches the highest degree of development (in Tolstoy's case it was just 32 years of age), he sees that all is bunkum and deceit; and that the truth, which he values above all, is terrible: that when you look at it well and clearly you awake with horror!" "Eventually, my rejection of authority spilled into self-indulgence and self-destructiveness, and by the time I enrolled in College, I'd begun to see how any challenge to convention harbored within it the possibility of its own excesses and its own orthodoxy". Barack Obama 'The Audacity of Hope'.
April 09
The minimum separation criteria is 100ft which has caused 3 fatal accidents and numerous dangerous incidents when aircraft have flow over equestrian yards & riders. We aim to raise this minimum to 200ft to stop cruelty to animals and further serious accidents with riders, handler and horses. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Altitude/
Government Response
Thank you for taking the time to register your concerns about the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) low level flying policy via the e-petition system.
The Government appreciate that this is an emotive issue; however the ability to train our flight crews in low level flying is critical to the safety of our flight crews. On operations, such as in Afghanistan, helicopters in particular may operate routinely at or below 50 ft above ground level in order to minimise the risks to our people. The low level operating environment is both complex and hazardous and will present a greater risk to crews on operations if they are not appropriately trained.
The policy governing low flying training for military aircraft, known as the UK Low Flying System, divides the UK into Low Flying Areas. Within these areas fixed wing aircraft (such as fast jets) are authorised to operate down to levels of 250ft.
The normal minimum height for helicopters when on low flying exercises is 100ft above ground level. Low flying may be authorised to 50 ft to meet specific operational training requirements, however, authorising officers make every effort to minimise this activity. Increasing the minimum low flying height for helicopters to 200 ft would seriously compromise the ability of flight crews to gain a realistic appreciation of the hazardous environment they will encounter on operations. And the MOD judges therefore that the operational imperative to undertake such training outweighs the potential downsides of such activities.
Ref, Collateral War Damage - Interference of UK in other countries 'affairs'. Re, British / Westminster - Government Foreign Policy. April 05
http://kennedy121.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/breaking-the-bank-g20-protest-in-the-city-pictures/
Out with the old rozza and respected institutions and in with the new - where are they?
"In general important civilisations start with a rigid and superstitious (religious - irrational - dogmatic) system, gradually relaxed, and leading at a certain stage to a period of brilliant genius, while the good of the old tradition remains and the evil inherent in its dissolution has not yet developed. But as the evil unfolds, it leads to anarchy, thence, inevitably, to a new tyranny, producing a new synthesis, secured by a new system of dogma. The doctrine of liberalism is an attempt to escape from endless oscillation. The essence of liberalism is an attempt to secure a social order not based on irrational dogma, and insuring stability without involving more restraints than are necessary for the preservation of the community, whether this attempt can succeed only the future can determine." B.Russell.
Dangerous voter apathy and the swings of sentiments to the far left or far right, marked by the present far right wing popularity is causing concern in many States. This may be because of a strong feeling of disconnect that most of us have felt from our governments and that this is felt at all social levels within each society. Also, there is the elected elite/ist problem, and the elitists, being members of some form of exclusive class, or club: a customised form of cronyism, may be taking advantage of this (disconnected) situation, which we all find ourselves in and very uncomfortably living with.
A logical answer is to have on the Ballot Paper, a dissatisfaction vote, such as, a, No Confidence in Government Box. I have just heard on BBC Radio 4 Andrew Rawnsley, about the ‘None Of The Above Option' (Australia). The ballot paper, could also contain some Sub Boxes under this particular heading. The Sub Boxes, could contain and generally be entitled, "Why, and the Reason...so on..." This could send a message to the long established, over funded, heavily campaign-ed and disconnected elite, to somehow, mend their ways and to become far more inclusive to everyone.
(keywords, sentences, phrases - if the government has evolved enough, and now is capable of working more than a simple Home PC)
The question must be to ask, “Why have we not already had something like this"? A user friendly, attractive and enticing ballot paper to express ourselves on. We spend vasts amount on a quango such as the Electoral Commission, which has pointed out how pathetic the electorate is at election time and no one does anything about it! (Lots of positive things are being tried out by them, but not this) I wonder, if, it is, and by now: far to embarrassing for our political parties and politicians that so few bother to turn out for them. There are long term dangers for all of us in this present situation, as all of our history shows us, with erratic voter swings to the far Left or Right. Mori does not show this up, as yet, just a very deep dissatisfaction with all government and those personalities who are now in government, and also, for some of the distinct reasons (above).
If we believe in a healthy, multicultural, diverse and liberal society, which most of us do, this situation will somehow need addressing. The protest vote is a trap and causes an aberration in any true democracy. I feel that the swings to the far right (or left) could be very fast and catch everyone unawares.
The jargon for this type of ballot paper is called ‘positive abstention’, if there is a big swing to the Far Right in the May elections maybe this will be considered promptly. The thought of any Far Right Wing Party in power due to the neglect of voter options would be more than a crime. Many have died fighting for our freedom (much freedom has been lost over the last few years, due to the exceptional degree of personal ignorance - in the character's of present Cabinet Government - British Home Office) and one of the principal jobs of any government and all its citizens, firstly: to prevent any/all power falling into wrong and irresponsible hands.
“For nationalism has a traditional and highly elaborate ritual of its own. Revolutionary Democracy can offer nothing to compare with the royal processions, the military parades, the music pregnant with associations, the flags, the innumerable emblems, by means of which patriotic sentiment can be worked up and the real presence of the motherland made manifest to every beholder.” Huxley.
Age, also, has something to do with it! Why fifty years of age?
"Eventually, my rejection of authority spilled into self self-indulgence and self-destructiveness, and by the time I enrolled in College, I'd begun to see how any challenge to convention harbored within it the possibility of its own excesses and its own orthodoxy". Barack Obama 'The Audacity of Hope'.
"Then, when they are fifty, those who have come safely through and proved the best at all points in action and in study must be brought at last to the goal. They must lift up the eye of the soul to gaze on that which sheds light on all things; and when they have seen the Good itself, take it as a pattern for the right ordering of the state of the individual, themselves included. You must have seen how youngsters, when they get their first taste of it, treat argument as a form of sport solely for the purpose of contradiction. When someone has proved them wrong, they copy his methods to confute others, delighting like puppies in tugging and tearing at anyone who comes near them. And so, after a long course of proving others wrong and being proved wrong themselves, they rush to the conclusion that all they once believed is false; and the result is that in the eyes of the world they discredit, not themselves only, but the whole business of philosophy. An older man will not share this craze for making sport of contradiction. He will prefer to take for his model the conversation of one who is bent on seeking truth, and his own reasonableness will bring credit on the pursuit". Plato.
At present, we all have to 'put up with' - 'an infantile situation'.
The Infantile Situation
'Becoming human is a process and not some event'
"In every primitive (anthropological anomie/anomy - anomic, bricoleurs or Bricolage - pre-logical) tribe we find the medicine man in the centre of society and it is easy to show that the medicine man (sometimes: a leader, politician, doctor, priest... celebrity or royal, i.e., one who knows what is best for all others) is either a neurotic or a psychotic or at least that his art is based on the same mechanisms as a neurosis or a psychosis. Human groups are actuated by their group ideals, and these are always based on the infantile situation. The infancy situation is modified or inverted by the process of maturation, again modified by the necessary adjustment to reality, yet it is there and supplies those unseen libidinal ties without which no human groups could exist. The medicine men are the leaders in this infantile game and the lightning conductors of common anxiety. They fight the demons so that others can hunt the pray and in general fight reality." ('fight reality', as reality (science) could be most unpalatable, to most or some people, depending on culture and education i.e., knowledge of reality, not - myth or theology, superstition...) Geza Roheim 'The Origin and Function of Culture'.
The Archbishop of Birmingham, Vincent Nichols, is to become the new Archbishop of Westminster. It is a post which, perhaps surprisingly, will likely wield considerable influence both inside and outside the Church. Ref, Mothering complex, 'lady faith' - 'protracted helplessness of the newborn'. "Alienating", "ignorant" and "pernicious", 'arrogance' and 'admiration', of itself (man). Why Pope Benedict maintains anti-condom stance http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7951838.stm Pope Benedict XV1 visits Angola "When God's word... is neglected, and when God's law is ridiculed, despised, laughed at, the result can only be destruction and injustice." Isn't this, utter wickedness? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7967173.stm Or the "perfection of wickedness" in the withholding of sex education information and the freedom that is found, in a modern knowledge based culture; from our young adults http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7992482.stm The incoming Archbishop of Westminster has called on Catholics to oppose proposals to allow 'pregnancy advisory services' to advertise on TV and radio. Sir David Attenborough 'warns on population growth' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7996230.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7919104.stm Why 'The Act Of Settlement' of 1701 should not be altered - unless the other powerful and a very infantile social network is abolished i.e., The Monarchy (firstly, but over 80% wish the Monarchy to remain, so that we are all locked within "the infantile situation") - Thus, diluting the Church of England's status (liberal) and English Monarchy (mostly - quite liberal and fairly pleasant - socially amenable - at present) as head of the Church of England, with a Roman Catholic authority (figurehead, who could gain real power, maybe, in some crisis situation) that is a more pervasive and doctrinaire: a much worse and far more rigid form of superstitious system - would be complete and utter, sheer foolishness! Ref, Church Schools and Faith Schools. UK. b) The protracted helplessness of the new born and the consequent uncritical submissiveness to authority, lasting well into aldulthood and sometimes existing into old age! (Whilst we are in the 'infantile situation': UK Parliament; Party Politics; Traditions; Monarchy; Church of England; House of Lords; Lawmaking; so on... : falls - well within, an 'Infantile Situation' http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/customs/traditions.cfm
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