Today I learned a new word and gained a new perspective on How Things Really Work.
The only way forward is to stop singing threnodies for a vanished political order, and start thinking strategically about how to survive in the one that replaced it.
https://unherd.com/2023/03/what-posie-parker-learnt-from-brexit/
A threnody is a wailing ode, song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
The author’s insights into How Things Work are new to me. They make a sense of chaos that I observe. (I am sure there are other ways of making sense of chaos).
Every politician needs brownshirts, but at a plausibly deniable distance.