Is the NHS the most bizarre modern cult?
Addiction to socialist virtue-signalling a sign of national decline
In Britain, an important religious occasion has passed and has been given a commemoration on state TV. That being the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service (NHS), which has replaced the Church of England as the nation’s official religion or part of it.
Here, a children’s choir sings “Happy Birthday NHS” as though it were a human being with a beating heart, as opposed to the bloated and overrated service that everyone with a brain knows it is. Daring to criticise the NHS or question conventional wisdom is considered a sin in this new religion. The same with the pieties of race and gender politics incorporated into a comprehensive theological replacement for Christianity.
The irony in this is the same people who call their political opponents a “cult” are the people who believe in this kind of totalitarian spectacle no different to what Russia, China and North Korea put on. They demand absolute submission to the new orthodoxy, or your life will be made deeply unpleasant for daring to dissent.
Britain is a country which has developed a bizarre addiction to socialist virtue-signalling, sabotaging it own position in the world. It is no wonder that the country hosts a bloated, corrupt, self-indulgent NGO which is a danger to peace and freedom at home as well as abroad. There are too many people who like being on the gravy train, because they know they can’t be tested in the real world.
Astonishingly, the believe in British virtue-signallers in their faith is unshakeable even in face of unfavourable evidence. How can anyone spend holidays in the Middle East or Asia (as many of them do), witness the prosperous and dynamic societies they encounter, and still remain with socialist pieties at home is a mystery.
Let’s call it what it is: a religion. And the most bizarre, damaging and dangerous one of them all.
I have always been astounded by Britain's infatuation with socialism, despite this flawed ideology repetitively bringing each country within it's borders to their knees, both economically and socially.
It is a disease that is now so deeply inculcated within British society, and the political class, that it simply never goes away.
England and Scotland both played such a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution and the birth of modern capitalism, and yet both, along with the rest of Britain, have become perennial incubators of Western socialism, and vociferous advocates of cultural Marxism.