An Important Rebuttal

In May 2006 Radiohead played a tiny, homecoming set in London's Koko to an audience of roughly 100 people, which happened to include some important guests invited by the climate awareness organization, Friends of the Earth. On that day, Conservative Party leader David Cameron was there. It happens that Mr Cameron accepted his invitation via email on the basis that Thom and Johnny play their 1995 masterpiece, Fake Plastic Trees. As any self-respecting Radiohead fan would know, hearing a rendition of FPS is almost guaranteed. I happened to be one of the lucky few to scramble tickets for that magical night, and yes, they played the song about half way through a 13 track performance. Now, Cameron came out afterwards saying that Thom played it for him, and I don't know how you would feel about something as sickening as that, but I've disliked the man ever since. Alas! In today’s Sunday Times Mr Cameron has written a fairly brief little article about the Conservative Party's new policy, supposedly adopted from Radiohead's inspirational release of In Rainbows last October (of which I commented extensively). This bankrupt and repugnant concept, attempting to connect with an elite sub-cult of the population and therefore dragging in other similarly impressionable people, seems to me like a last ditch effort not only, it seems, to have a personalized Thom Yorke endorsement, but also to engage the youth they appear to have so comprehensively ostracized in Britain. And yet! This decry comes on the same day that our bumbling heir, Prince Harry, is forcefully removed from duty in Afghanistan. Why, I ask, should he take precedent over the other equally courageous individuals who risk their lives fighting to protect our security? This question arose before he was initially deployed and I shan't comment too much here. What I would challenge, however, is the very inculcation of monarchist doctrine in Britain and this supposedly derived nationalism we draw from it. This is a topic I simply cannot ignore. Bryan shows his age in a very conservative post on his blog today, 'On Patriotism', where he apparently wanted to "stand up for Harry" and "let [his] chest swell a little". I expected better from Bryan, I'll be honest. He also suspects that the younger generation “regards the word 'patriotism' as so outdated as to be meaningless". Perhaps, but let me pose to you this consideration instead. Imagine a country, highly disconnected, disjointed, fractured, segregated, and immobilized as it stands, constantly led to believe that "multiculturalism" is a good thing, encapsulating this broken society. I would argue strongly that, no, multiculturalism is certainly not a beneficial national characteristic. In fact, it poisons the very essence of nationalism or any whisper of patriotism. This is why the younger generation is indifferent to their country. What would they be fighting for if they recruited themselves into the war? A "rainbow" community? Where cultures are independently honored and valued, yet inherently contradictory to one another and clashing with one another daily? What's more, those with even the bleakest intelligence can see through the dim-witted goon, who now seems to want to convert to Islam, Prince Charles (the next king of England!). The lineage of our monarchy was supposedly appointed and set in motion by a divine celestial dictatorship: god. This, without doubt, is a premise to which I do not subscribe, and I'm not the only teenager who seems to think so. With this rebuttal, my chest does swell somewhat with pride; as a generation we will no longer accept indoctrination into this sordid campaign of, what I like to call, fawn-ication. How can we allow this degeneration to continue? I urge you, comrades, dissect this information presented to you - is the basis of a monarchy a sound one? Is the declining national patriotism a symptom of a corrupting "multicultural" society? Or is it a symptom of distrust and the growing laughability of the royal family? Our taxes in Britain pay for these people to live a materially over-nourished existence, lest we forget. And so, when the Conservative party come out and vocally support the immediate withdrawal of our "prince", please put pressure on, and question, the grounds on which this disgrace is uttered.