Re: Anomie

Depressing isn't it? The MOST depressing thing is our own people, they are the real leaven in the mix. It's easy with the English, you know what they're like, you know their history and you know their colonial track record - they're the enemy that's in front of you on your battlefield - easy.   The really dangerous enemy to our future existence as a nation is the one within, the one that you hold back from putting to the sword because deep down you still feel he/ she is "kin". If you do attack them, their other kin immediately jump to their rescue and you're branded the villain. Re. Dai Lloyd Evan's Ceredigion and our betrayal by the keepers of Cefn Gwlad and all things "Welsh" including the language - because they (along with most of the politicians) are basically ignorant in the subject you're talking about.   Talking, moaning and tampering with the situation won't work Jac - it's just an exercise in stemming the symptoms, or rather delaying the symptoms. The majority of our nation are bewildered by those actions anyway - because of their basic ignorance. Until we can change the education system and get our young ones to learn about their history, culture, traditions and heritage, moaning about what is happening is an exercise in pissing into the wind. You land up with wet trousers and stinking so much that you're shunned by all.   The ONLY answer is to bring a generation of our young ones up to running speed - via a Welsh curriculum - so that they UNDERSTAND what the occasional old codger (like you or I who do understand) is talking and moaning about.   Ever felt like a voice in the wilderness? I certainly do when it comes to education. We desperately need an Education Act for Wales - before any farty Language Act or even independence. [You know my views Jac - CLICK HERE]   I look forward to you snapping out of your anomie. Your writing always makes for interesting reading.   Hwyl,   Gwilym.     ----- Original Message ----- Just thought I'd drop a line in case you were wondering about my silence and lack of action on Welsh Times. Truth is I'm undergoing one of my periodic bouts of anomie. Possibly brought on by the weather. Not helped by some of the news I read.   Such as Alun Ffred launching a 'new' tourism initiative in Caernarfon. Saying we should promote adventure holidays. Tourism, as we know, is a largely English business in Wales, but adventure holidays and the like are exclusively fucking English, yet Plaid Cymru says we must have more of it! What sort of Wales does Plaid Cymru want to see?   Economically speaking, promoting tourism, seasonal and low paid tourism, is a confession of defeat. It's saying, 'Sorry, folks, we are unable to get you decent jobs so we have no alternative but to push tourism'. (And suffer the consequences of communities where Welsh people can't afford to live.)    Then, yesterday, I was in Harlech having the MOT done on my car. I wandered around while it was being done and, inevitably, found myself scanning the notice boards. One beauty of a poster caught my eye, put up by the Meirionnydd Labour Party.   To begin with, it was entirely in English; but then, I suppose Labour has given up on Meirionnydd. The poster was calling a public meeting to discuss "Developing and protecting the Ardudwy coast" Now what parallel universe do these twats inhabit where logic is reversed so that a coastline can be protected by being developed?   I shall snap out of it shortly and return to the fray.