Chris A Thank you Chris for your considered reply with attached article.
Firstly to the article: in general I’ve stopped reading such overly convoluted “explanations” of our (shared?) existence as I find they tend to explain nothing except the author’s complex battles with his or her own existence and lose me with, for example, the final statement “Because, in the end, people do not long for a borderless world, but for a place to stand, a history to inherit, and a worthy future to build.”. Having fought my way through the vagaries in the long winded explanation I realized I agreed with approximately NONE of the conclusion. Why I tend to avoid such long treatises - clearly Natasha (author) is being paid by the word. I find the issues in life can be answered by far less blah! blah! and much more simply. Maybe that’s just me?
I don’t even know if I’d recognize a “neo-liberal marxist” if one shot me? Isn’t that what marxists are famous for? Do the “neo-liberal” branch only shoot you once or use smaller caliber bullets?
Leaving Britain in 2009 was something that I hadn’t planned for exactly then but had always kept in mind as I wanted to live in SE Asia since visiting in the late 70s (Magic bus through from Europe) and Thailand in early 80s. Was retrospectively a bit of a God-send to be made redundant 4 times in 2008 (expensive aged for employers in my late 40s) due to the economic crash that went around the world and made successive employers reluctantly embrace bankruptcy as a business plan. House market was great in the UK so sold up and off we went.
Moved with fam to the UK (was born there) in 1997 on the same day Lady Di took her car ride with destiny and had one of my most eye-opening experiences to greet me on arrival (in Peterborough for those that know it) was to meet my 10 and 12 year old blond haired, blue eyed niece and nephew who could only speak English with a pronounced Urdu accent since they were the among the only white children in their school classes. One of them weathered this experience and one did not, I was always scared by it. I love England and the English traditions and even the bloody food!
My political stance on immigration is slightly to the left of Genghis Khan and am an avid follower of Renaud Camus (if you don’t know him here’s a great article with video from Douglas Murray (whom I also avidly follow) - https://newcriterion.com/article/the-crime-of-noticing/
Sorry to blabber on but you did ask….
