People STILL talking about last election?
What now. Always, the question is - what now.
The future begins now. You cannot touch the past in any way. Cannot change a single thing. You can't change what other people did. You can't even change the way they experienced it. It's written in their mind now. As are your memories. I mean, you can change what they think about it next time it comes up, a tiny bit. But that's so difficult. And it involves genuinely understanding them, in a way that people just don't do to anybody - it's the kind of understanding you probably get on very rare occassions when someone and you really click. Trying to do politics that way? Persuade people by saying, 'Why did you'? and then saying 'well I knew it didn't make sense'.
It's. A. Total. Waste. Of. Effort.
We're into politics to do things NOW. For all the tomorrows.
What now?
Labour people especially. Javid strengthens Boris's cabinet quite a bit. The least of them has been replaced by the one who originally looked the strongest.
What now? Ask everyone why they are such stupid cunts for not voting Corbyn? Again? Can they vote for him now?
No. Labour needs to get it's act together. I'm so disappointed in Kier. His one chance now is that we get a third lockdown before winter. That could end Boris. Not a lot else will, not in the foreseeable. Anything else, he'll regroup. If that's the case, Kier doesn't have anything. No message that I get. You could probably find an ally in me.
But only if we stop this stupid game of pretending to persuade people by saying you were wrong we weren't wrong it was unfair. Persuading people by saying they don't understand you, trying to convince them you understand that they never made any sense anyway not even to themselves.
You. Are. Not. Listening. You. Are. Stuck. In. A. Moment. That. Happened. To. You. Not. Them.
It. Is. Over.
I was stuck in the referendum. Stuck in Brexit. Stuck in May last year. Stuck in December and January this year. Stuck in how I felt and how other people acted.
There's no going back. What happened to the world is what happened to the world. What I thought and what I felt was my business - no-one else can ever do much about that.
What people did is what they did. It made sense to them.
We're all unrealiable, all guessing. We just do what seems to make sense. All trying to pretend we really know. We don't. I didn't. And anyone can be wrong.
They won't take my demands for things that would make me feel better or more trusting about what happened, and I don't even know what I'd want from them anyway. No point me telling them anything about a moment that's gone. Not now. Later. When it's calm. Because that was ALL of us.
Brexit, the election - those were votes. Where we made our own decisions. It happens every few years. There is no way on god's earth I can hope to change them ready for next time by saying i got it right you were wrong. Because it's not clear what else would have happened if it had gone differently because it didn't. It's all in our head. All a guess, a hope, a prediction, a projection at best. At worst it's a lie to ourselves.
People know that instinctively. Stop trying to tell them otherwise.
Brexit is done. No point arguing now. I never thought I'd say that. But it's true.
And so are all the other things that have happened. All those moments.
They
are
Over.
So.
What now?