The Fabian dream

 The Webb's and the Fabian movement did a  lot of good in their early days . Let's face it, their commitment to thorough research would be welcomed by so many of us practical down to earth scientists now alienated by the  noisy quick fix ever changing agendas  of the huge scientism ( they think they love science but only love talking about it and its products - dilatants ) lobby today . 
I especially love those 2's advocacy of workers rights and the role of good government . Very Sadly( because the last century has seen so much perversion of democratic freedoms )  , many western governments have lost sight of how this delicately balanced ( ask ED Burke) idea works. .Robespierre showed  them ( in the way we mostly learn ?) where not to go, but no-one told them  to make sure they grew up in their understanding and sorted the wheat from the chaff of history; how in the world did the West get it right and set power plays in order   
The Webb's promoted the products of sound intellectual history -- great !, The Fabians faith is now in a future that ignores the teachings of history  ( stupid and lazy thinking)  . The tragic consequences of modern idealisms   are put in a dramatic study of the recent history   "How to become a tyrant "..   one hopes that that story is only the beginning of unravelling the tragically flawed ideas  of an ideal society that were so common since the movement began.  

so where is it now ?  Picture :frogs in hot water and a thick fog  

1. Locked into  faith in automatic progress ( as it started )? 
2. Effectiveness obtained by doing nothing but niggle, complain and wait ;
3. No need to act or if pressured to be responsible. for just moving on ?
4. No brakes or throttle control on real evil and the people who will hide behind your excuses and doing nothing but let things happen philosophy ?  
   
5. Women bemoaning the sexual freedom they gave to males . What would Beatrice say to the Fabian group of girls ? Bettina Ardnt  might have sound advice 
   but oh no we must endure the nightly barrage on ABC TV  ,The drum ,and RN evenings about how bad the oppression from men is.   
6. Women projecting their unhappiness onto other minority groups allowing them to do the same thing ---wallow in their so called oppressions on public TV or hours and hours . Its not doing them or any of them any good .I accept that oppression  occurs and can be very serious BUT  Facing the truth about how OUR  perspective  limits us ---would set them free ,,, surely
7. Too rigidly accepting of solutions arriving like uninvited salesmen at our doorsteps in a crisis?  oh great ! the real observers don't respect you . they say "U don't respect people who just sit there and spout crap" . Here's a bomb 2 wake U up???
8. Too ideological to be of any earthly use?
9.  Unwilling to accept your world view is simple and  highly reactionary and therefore responses are no more often than over reactionary  response to the idea of revolution and deaths and disasters you have let happen . ???
10. Where is your push back philosophy?  The resilient always have one 
11. Too willing to trust the mere machinery of government rather than trust in the mind fulness required to make good decisions involving those scary people called men , at any time in history. 
    
    
12. Dangerous because its agendas are not obvious - just gradual like cancer?

Bill Shorten with his faith in batteries and Julia Gillard with her faith in taxes show the randomness of the ideas and limits of this still popular idealism are in practical faith politics; an idealism that  forces irrationality on the people .Sleepy stuff that allows nudging by the more determined 
just as the tyrants of our own century  show the force of an idea  "How to become a tyrant "

CONCLUSION 
Watch out --
A-for adherents
as Bertrand Russell noted and Chamberlain proved ., a mere faith in gradualism can lead to a false sense of comfort .   Evolution is a process that works in natural selection ; its not the only law even amongst animals who have no language we understand . 

B- For others . If your agenda is  hidden in the shadows , Watch OUT -some other dark forces may join you .
 
 The West is only the best when it teaches and encourages the open test .  
If you don't test it in the real world why would it work once developed .

\You have always to understand how things work  ( the ecosystem)  if you are to prevent disaster and breed something deeper --improved resilience .