Britain is a neurocracy

Our leaders are exasperated with the people they serve.

Britain is a disaster. The country seems to be in terminal decline.

Not only do we see a lack of ability to turn things around we witness leaders and prominent decision makers evidently clueless about normal life and the hardships many now face.

The political and media classes best reflect this phenomenon. Their views are insular, fictional and at odds with reality. They promote unorthodox ideas that are widely derided yet their enthusiasm is evident as are their hostile responses to being challenged.

Minor comments about immigration are treated as precursors to genocide. Criticism of a biased media unwilling to report events is dismissed as conspiracy. No discussion of climate policy and its unaffordable costs is tolerated. Deviation from the establishment view means excommunication and social exile.

Those in leadership positions drive Britain’s descent into authoritarian governance. Attempts to discuss changes to society leads to extreme overreactions, including jailing noticers, something they now boast about.

Britain has become a madhouse. Our leaders are unable to think like normal people. None of them are facing reality. They seem crazy.

Or, rather, they seem neurotic.

Neurosis is everywhere

Britain has degenerated into a technocratic regime that views the public as its enemy. Normal people disgust the country’s leaders and it shows. They no longer hide their contempt.

But there is a palpable sense of fear emanating from the powerful. Their reactions to normal events paint a troubling picture of who is leading the country, particularly the political and media classes.

If the British establishment were a person we would think them mentally unstable. The qualities we see most are those of a neurotic individual, a type that is well understood.

Here are some features visible in Britain’s ruling class.

Chronic anxiety and worry

A key attribute of neurosis is persistent fear or worry. Rumination is commonplace, circling around and around the same problems. There is also a tendency to overreact, with the response disproportionate to the issue at hand.

The current British regime is wracked with anxiety and worry. This defines them. They are vocal about their concerns.

We are reminded of an endless series of horrors we must attend to; systemic racism, lack of diversity, an imperial past and our cultural dominance along with our impact on the world.

One simple example illustrates the degree to which minds can become distorted by excessive worry.

James Watt perfected the steam engine in 1769 which kickstarted in the industrial revolution, changing the world forever. This would ultimately elevate most nations on earth and led eventually to the establishment of cheap abundant energy for almost everyone.

Until recently these events were viewed as an epoch-defining moment of engineering brilliance. Now this has been recast as a dark stain on Britain’s place in the world, with climate zealots keen to blame the British for all pollution caused by industrialization.

Instead of pride we now see embarrassment and even anxiety about the “damage” Britain has done to the world because it ushered in an era of cheap widespread energy for everyone.

Any rational person would understand this extreme view to be a distortion of reality and excessively negative, yet it permeates everything. Those who rule Britain are ashamed of our past. They worry about it. Only they do this, normal people are proud of our history.

Emotional reactivity

Neurosis is characterized by strong emotional responses to relatively minor stressors. This often triggers rapid mood swings towards anxiety, sadness or irritability.

The British government and its many agents often react emotionally to challenges. This is literal anger, disbelief, and then more anger. Much of it is visible. They are exasperated normal people reject their bizarre ideas.

Very little is calm or rational. We are only ever one insurrection away from absolute carnage at the hands of right-wing extremists which increasingly includes anyone who challenges them.

There is a palpable sense of exasperation from the ruling class and its minions. Reality and its continual intrusions exhaust them and we are to blame. This is one of the reasons they are so enthusiastic for mass immigration. They desire a more compliant populace who will accept all they are told.

But it is the emotionality of responses that betrays them. We see none of the detached, calm realism that characterizes real statesmen.

Negative self-evaluations

Neurotics measure high in self-criticism, guilt and feelings of inadequacy. There is a strong tendency to assume responsibility for things outside of their control.

Neurotics are usually very critical, often in ways that seem insensible to the rest of us.

Britain’s political class are evidently embarrassed by Britain’s success. Our history cannot be explained in a world convinced of egalitarianism, that we are all the same. Our culture is young compared to Africa and India, yet we conquered both and brought a modern civilization they still cannot match.

Worse, when Britain pulled out of its former colonies they collapsed, except for the ones we populated ourselves like America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Rhodesia. Our own people made these unforgiving countries successful.

To say our establishment are negative towards Britain is a serious understatement. Our history negates not only their grand egalitarian ideas but it forces them to confront their own inadequacy. Who among today’s establishment could build railroads in India or schools in Africa? They can’t even do it in Britain. They are unavoidably aware of this, all the more reason to condemn it all.

Perfectionism and excessive control

Many neurotics fear making mistakes. This can lead to avoidance, but it also triggers an excessive need to control their environment.

Britain’s regime seeks to manage everyone’s life. From digital IDs to regulation of the internet, even control of movement and food supplies. It is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of becoming a totalitarian state.

There is now talk of abolishing trial by jury, an 800-year-old precedent they cannot abide as juries keep seeing through establishment tropes and refuse to convict people for thought crimes.

When the government makes statements to the public their rage at our ancient freedoms is apparent. They have an insatiable need to control all that we do. Liberties we have enjoyed for centuries are recast as unreasonable impediments to the world they imagine. Our rejection of their foolish ideas is seen as misbehaviour to be corrected.

This is one of the purest signs of a neurotic mind, the desire to control everything, an impossibility.

It even extends to the past. The erasing of Britain’s history, the absurd insistence we are a nation of immigrants, and the evident disgust at our homogeneity implies a near-break with reality only the deepest neurosis could generate. Our past is imperfect, so it is to be reimagined, a strong sign of people unable to cope with reality.

Avoidance behaviours

Neurotics tend to avoid conflict, risk or situations that might trigger anxiety. This will often incubate procrastination or indecision.

Underlying the avoidance of conflict is a worry with offending and a general preoccupation with what others think.

Much of this is based on an inability to assert themselves. Assertiveness is a behaviour based upon defending one’s interest which inevitably triggers conflict.

To the conflict-averse this means all attempts to assert oneself must be avoided. This very quickly degenerates into a misplaced focus on others.

We see this everywhere in Britain.

The key example is foreign immigrants, including illegals. It is almost impossible to overstate the degree to which the British state identifies with foreigners, constantly championing rights they do not possess except for bits of paper created by the state itself. All the while their own people languish in poverty and squalor, outbred by foreigners with no connection to the British Isles, many of them openly hostile to all that we are.

The above is not an exaggeration; this is happening now. Nothing seems able to penetrate the thick fog of worry they might offend some foreigner baffled at our efforts to help him.

What explains this except mental illness? A neurotic need to avoid conflict and a belief that asserting one’s own rights is wrong.

Dependency and seeking reassurance

Perhaps worse of all is the neurotic need to perform for others. Performative empathy, performative anguish, performative concerns. It is all an act. None of it is sincere.

In neurotics this stems from a need to avoid rejection or disapproval. Its corollary is the need to receive validation from others as the weak cannot generate this from within.

This is more than just fakery. It is an improper response to life and its challenges. That is why Britain is in decline.

The government will agonize over foreign wars, send aid to warlords, and condemn domestic concerns over demographic change, all of which lend themselves to grandstanding, but they can’t fix roads or bridges. They can’t maintain any infrastructure. They have destroyed the major institutions. The economy is in terminal decline and jobs are becoming scarce.

Actors look the part but get nothing substantial done. A neurotic state is fake, spending its life performing for applause.

This sorry state of affairs is disastrous. Those who witness modern Britain see this clearly. Those running Britain cannot.

The neurotics are everywhere and they are taking us all down with them.

Welcome to the madhouse

A system of governance driven by neurotics takes on their characteristics. Britain has become a neurotic bureaucracy; a neurocracy.

Neurotics overthink and live inside their heads. They lack the calm, detached strength needed to govern sensibly. Power structures inevitably take on these qualities.

The British government has become paranoid. Digital IDs, internet regulation, censorship. They jail normal people for social media posts. Dissenting views are increasingly punished with custodial sentences.

These are not the actions of the mentally strong. This is an embattled minority fighting reality and becoming desperate.

A gulf is opening between the rulers and the ruled. Increasingly no common ground is even conceivable as the fictions needed to maintain narratives grow. They become overtly false but are needed to feed the neurosis.

They are destroying the country Britons rely on to survive as their delusions degenerate into terminal decline. That is where Britain is now, ruled by a suicidal death cult that hates everything about the country, its people and its history. They are being joined by a growing number of non-British actors who sense their time is coming.

Most of what they do is opposed by a very strong majority, often from two-thirds to four-fifths of the population depending on the issue.

The gulf between Britain’s rulers and its ruled has never been greater. They cannot be fixed. Their belief systems are not compatible with the continued existence of the country.

And this is inevitably reflected in their neurocratic model as it lurches from one calamity to the next and on to oblivion.

We can only hope enough of Britain remains when they finally destroy themselves.

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