Political Commentator wonders, where the Homeless & Hungry might fit into ‘Ganesh World’?
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January 11, 2024:
In my haste to comment on Mr. Ganesh’s latest essay, I commented about the Hunger and Homelessness in Britain. I failed in my moral duty, yes Kant!, to, at the least, mention the Gaza Genocide underwritten by American weaponry, and an utterly bankrupt Political Morality; that has infected that mythical ‘Western Civilization’: that is the sine qua non of Newspapers and Websites, who publish political commentary. The European Settler State is a historical/moral toxin; the History of America is the most glaring example!
Best regards to my Readers.
StephenKMackSD
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When reading Mr. Ganesh I am remined of his remarkable talent as a stylist. Yet his latest essay in which he opines about that ‘red wall’, and other vexing political questions : Kenneth Kohlrabi is the comments section, also wonders what that might be.
I too am a bit befuddled.
This expression of Mr. Ganesh as political commentator reminds this reader of Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdoms Of Speech’. A possible point of intellectual/political fracture is reached between the imperatives of the feuilleton, as a form, reserved for another part of a Newspaper? Mr. Ganesh essay seems trapped, in the moment, in the rhetorical styles of both Gideon Rachman and Edward Luce, equal to lackluster political commentaries!
Here are some reviews, Wolfe’s the first of which seems to be deeply attached to Chomsky’s Marxism as indictive of what? And Jerry A. Coyne’s
Can We Talk? Tom Wolfe’s “The Kingdom of Speech”
Peter Wood, Carol Iannone and Geoffrey Clarfield
https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/30/2/can_we_talk_tom_wolfes_the_kingdom_of_speech
Opinion: His white suit unsullied by research, Tom Wolfe tries to take down Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky.
By Jerry A. Coyne
There are some indicators of Mr. Ganesh’s power, yet the rhetorical prestidigitations of another literary Ganesh are missed.
That was the beginning of my comment on Mr. Ganesh latest essay. Mr. Ganesh was/is an avid reader of Mr. Wolfe’s. Yet in this instance Mr. Wolfe wrote, as if, he could hope to match, or exceed, the work of two writers, intellectuals, World Historical Thinkers. When his whole career was writing about the mundane of popular culture, in it’s widest sense, as satire from a ‘Conservative’ point of view. His most infamous project was ‘Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970)’ in which he ‘satirized’ Leonard Bernstein’s soirée for the Black Panther Party. Was it an expression of Mr. Wolfe’s not so latent ‘Southern-ness’, or more pointedly his racial animus towed Jews and Blacks!
Back to Mr. Ganesh:
The Reader need only look at the Political Leaders of Britain from David Cameron, Mrs. May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss & Kwasi Kwarteng , Rishi Sunak as expressions of political/legal exhaustion. With Tony Blairs’s house-pet Kier Starmer as Political Pretender. Will the roundly defamed, by this newspaper and its confederates, Jeremy Corbyn enter the contest?
Does this sentence answer any questions? ‘And so it is with some justification that I announce the death (through natural causes) of big-government Toryism’ This is the chatter of a would-be Party Technocrat, who acts as if Homelessness and Hunger are not epidemic?
With Homelessness at record levels:
Rough sleeping rises in UK amid tidal wave of homelessness
Dennis Moore
19 March 2023
For the first time in five years there has been a marked rise in rough sleeping across England.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows that in 2022, an estimated 3,069 people were sleeping out on the streets of England, a rise of 26 percent. This is the biggest year on year rise since 2015 and exposes the pretense of the Conservative government’s 2019 manifesto promise to “end the blight of rough sleeping” by 2024.
Even this rise is not the full picture as the numbers of those sleeping out on the streets does not include those who are homeless, living in temporary shelters or hostels.
There has been a rise in rough sleeping across all regions of England. London and the southeast represented half of those on the streets, with Westminster local authority in London recording the largest number of rough sleepers, 250 people, an increase from 63. Christchurch, Poole and Bournemouth showing a doubling of rough sleepers.
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With Hunger at record levels:
Poverty across UK forces 11.3mn Britons into hunger, report reveals
A landmark research study has revealed an excruciating extent of food poverty across Britain as the general public grapple with soaring inflation and the highest cost-of-living in a generation.
More than eleven million people or one in seven persons throughout the UK faced hunger in the last year due to a shortage of money, according to a new study by a leading charity organization, the Trussell Trust.
According to the charity, the latest findings are just the tip of the iceberg and the shortage of money is not limited to just hunger pangs among the impoverished Britons.
It said the impact of poverty leads to worrying social isolation and loneliness, spiraling debt, and a decline in physical and mental health.
Trussell Trust said its food banks network distributed close to 3 million emergency food parcels in the past 12 months, as the levels of need were even more than during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, and more people found themselves incapable of covering the cost of essentials such as heating and food.
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Mr. Ganesh moral/political vacuity is the expression of a ‘Technocrat’/Reporter’, ensconced in his comfortable office! Informing his readers about questions of would be political orthodoxy, he knits together for consumption by his readers/acolytes: who can chatter to each-other about such a pressing question:
‘And so it is with some justification that I announce the death (through natural causes) of big-government Toryism’
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