NO POOF IS SNOW-WHITE

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Had a great telephone conversation yesterday with a very great Welsh friend I have met and now work with via the social network Facebook- utterly thrilling to have a crackle free line at last [It took me, with all my skills, THREE WEEKS to persuade British Telecom that the fault lay with their telegraph pole and not with our equipment within the home- let this be a warning to everyone with a BT account. Like most commercial giants they are wizard at income and mithering when it comes to expenditure, whist glossing up their ‘brilliant’ service in mega-bucks advertising campaigns.] This matter is no segue, it directly concerned our chat since we ultimately agreed that honesty- however painful it may be, should totally underpin everything we do. And that is not in any way a religious point of view, far from it; that is the shared point of view of left of centre intellects who still care for the plight of mankind and community in particular.

It is a key factor in our despair and undoing. It is a vital factor in our possible repair.

The both of us had nattered widely- agreeing that China somewhat surreptitiously ruled the world and would continue to do so for the foreseeable future and that, within the next decade, everyone in the USA would be working either directly or indirectly for a Chinese or an Indian employer. China is a giant hypocrite- luddite about social liberality, homophobic, yet happy to embrace Hong-Kong and, more particularly, Shanghai: the foremost capitalist city in the world whose boast is that anything you desire can be bought there if you can pay the price.

It’s easy to knock Johnny foreigner- practically a national sport now in most western countries. On our doorstep- indeed under our own door mats, the truth is an altogether different animal. In central London Soho, Chinatown and the Gay Village are adjacent to each other. There are Chinese rent boys, and pink pounds are spent in Chinese restaurants- the two communities rub along though it is not exactly frottage. The Chinese are a powerful community in London. The Gay community is not- and why is that. My guess is that its ties are weaker than nationality and that it floats on a raft of lies.

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If this is the age of artifice as opposed to art underpinned by truth then it is doomed and no community I know in the world more attracted to artifice is my own GLBT community. It seems we love flim flam, smoke and mirrors, the cosmetic, superficiality, fakes, charades- anything and everything to avoid the truth. Heterosexuals run us a close second.

To my dying day I will champion social liberalism; free love; a society free of nannying restraints and censorship BUT the sad thing is so few of us can handle these things without deceit and, to make matters worse, deceit is a great weapon in the armoury of the vast capitalist industry happy to prey on our community and the sex-world generally. We understand deceit far more than we understand honesty.

I am not a beast but I have had experiences in the seedy underworld of our community which is deliberately kept hidden BECAUSE IT IS MORE PROFITABLE THAT WAY. But I swear I will explode if I hear another simpering twat hold forth that they have never cottaged; cruised the heath or groped in back-rooms. NO POOF IS SNOW-WHITE.

My friend on the phone- heterosexual by the way, sees this pattern of deep denial of the truth as being widespread. People living with each other for years not actually having any idea who the other is- strangers within a marriage. Writers continuing to write when it is patently clear that they are not writers. Publishers publishing writers who are not writers- in the sense that that their work is not underpinned by art but by artifice, not honesty but self-deception and delusion.

It should stop. People like us would dearly love it to stop. BUT, as the saying goes, where there’s muck there’s brass, and the likes of Simon Cowell know this and have profited from it profusely, indeed obscenely. And you, the half awake, all but comatose, probably deliberately drug coshed populous put your feeble hands together and applaud. More importantly you splash the cash and flash the plastic- attaching yourself to the products of artifice, and as long as you continue to do so the virus of it will survive. That is what it is- a virus that strips us of the ability to do honesty and discernment. Western society is profoundly sick with it. At the same time it is a tremendous triumph for the few who really do profit from capitalism; the ones who with their multi billions come to believe they have a right to sit at the same large table and decide our fate. The very jumped up Oprah is one such. CM. 

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