Demoniacs. Raising the social and educational level in the South. Street urchins and corner-boys. Armi di poveri....

The problem with the South's backwardness  and other societies which push the poor below the level of subsistence is formed by reactionary politicians,all policemen and many male teachers. They are the beasts who terrorise and spy on voices for change and social progress.

For my part....

In 2009 my unfolding drama of Sinn Fein election proposals argued for the appointment of School Attendance Officers and Educational Compliance Officers. (Gorbachev saw that social change is from below by bottom-up social movement, democratic social campaigning by grassroots organisations and from above,organised social philanthrophy through taxation and social investment. In our country there may be no local change without dedicated community organisations and no enhanced  social provision without social altruism.)

In Ireland,we have a long history of clerical altruism which is giving way to social altruism. 

At a real level we say that the Southern state is not sustaining the poor to acceptable standards. It sets out a social mean which pushes the poor and marginalised beneath subsistence level. The wit and wisdom of the country clown and urban hick in the Dail is based on the acquired wisdom of old nationalist slogans and homilies which have the potential to drag us back to a primitive,rackrenting society.

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However,all things being equal,let the poor be encouraged to set their sights higher on work and employment.

Unemployed communities can not improve their standing without the teaching in schools of cookery,household economics and domestic science. In this regard the teaching of Civics in the South of Ireland sets a fine example.

Change?

From without and within education for young children. Let us try, economic circumstances permitting,to ameliorate the situation of poor children.

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24.9.2024

The South in its proper context

The armies of layabouts and dole imposters who haunt the cities of the West in search of comfort are ready material for criminals.

The street urchin and waif bring into life the CORNERBOY and the across the street shouter and doorbanger. That type develops into the low level criminal and thug and cutthroat who has to be locked up intermittently for the protection of the public.

Armi di poveri

The Dunnes and Cahills of Dublin find raw material to be worked up into their street runners for drugs in the children abandoned to the care of society by teachers and legislators and multifarious forms of professionals. 

Amongst those drawn into mind games of theatre workers and television dramatists on our streets,we count the categories of intelligent miscreants. Those people are generally classed as the petite bourgeois intelligentsia.

Why do we witness the proliferation of Gardai street 'players' in times of economic crisis and great social harm?

It is because Southern society is based on the minimum state with certain adaptions forced on it by the European Union. (At one time the Catholic Church ameliorated social conditions. The Church and rightwing politicians -I am thinking in particular of Ahern and Reynolds,Lawlor and Burke, Cooney and O Dee-had a lot of influence on policing policy. That occurred much to the detriment of working people but with their political consent.)

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 Why should the Church-State symbiosis still be such a running sore?

 The Churchmen are notorious for having agnostics sacked and blacklisted in collaboration with conservative politicians.

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Southerners,if you ever wish to rise above the level of bogman or country wiseacre you must apply yourself to intelligent pursuits not the cynical activities of the GAA and dramatic fronts for Irish Military Intelligence and the American Government.

That is all that the pocketful of jumbles your Irish identity amounts to.

Stop dreaming and grow up and pass no remarks on bastards like Sean and Peter Quinn and the new brand of spivs with knuckledusters and cutthroat razors who want all for themselves and a few greedy farmers in Cork and riffraff in Cork City.