# on the near total lack of uk working class solidarity and the buzz of bs busywork in which people only slightly better off than 'the rest of us' (specific citation needed) seem not to care or notice class /warfare which screwing over the non rich and pale skinned ir seeming lack of empathy seems to stem from the hyper individualistic me-first 'loadsamoney' ideology component the thatcher era installed in ir brains after a solid 45 minutes of largely unnecessary noise pollution a hired strimmer beneath my window heard me shut the bathroom window loudly the old ugly bile rose up again - 'see i knew you had to be smart to work for the council' / 'someone once took a video of a council worker strimming the astroturf on a roundabout' etc that is: deliberately conflating 'people forced to work for the council who just happen to annoy you' with 'the mini-napoleonesque tyranny of innate systemic institutional incompetence malicious pettiness and kafkaesque levels of inflexible bureaucratic dysfunction' ey immediately called over ir exploited co worker and said loudly 'look mate - some lazy munts don't even get up until 11' putting aside those who live here with kids and those who work from home andor do night shifts - this almost sounded like hatred for renters who live in lousy council blocks i work hard friendo i just don't get paid for it - ok certainly not as hard as a council worker but still where's the solidarity brother ey then proceeded to rev ir strimmer even louder working on the exact same already-leafless hedge for 25 minutes the basket the lack of uk working class solidarity however was mine not ir if i'd not got kneejerk-reactionary angry at ir bs council job and roughly pulled the window shut then they'd not begun to 'strim in anger' (old oasis song?) after a while they'd thankfully largely finished ir venting ('bare faced cheek how can anyone not love a bit of the old unnecessary council strimming') and went back to regular noise levels - only occasionally getting a spare rev-dig in phew at one point i was ready to go out there and make ir wear that strimmer up ir arts yeah real smart there bob why not just bang two dull stones together - one of which is your idiot skull once again the first and foremost rule: be cool bob - do not disgrace your ancient most venerable teachers at the wu tang temple - actively engage in the steady conscious realization of the transience of all things the wider sociopolitical realities of strimming perhaps nobody should be forced to unceasingly and uselessly strim borders for a living - or listen to that intensely annoying buzz perhaps the very sound of cosmically pointless sisyphean busywork itself most of which is directly due to the annoying fact nature 'intrudes' on nature-destroying roads for earth destroying cars and therefore must be continually fought with an army of miserable frustrated underpaid strimmers and countless tons of pesticides 'keeping the borders tidy' also signifies 'keeping everything nice and presentable for the lords of the land as they look out over what they imagine they own' no untidy brown andor poor people to remind them they're just a bunch of pathologically greedy psychotic thieves thing is too many politically impotent members of the working class in this miserable backwater country let alone regular neanderthal duckheads the difference between them however is one has the opportunity to explode back in the face of ruling class oppression - but too often don't because they've been trained for years to blame anyone and everyone *except* ir holy bosses and owners having said that i was truly glad when they finally left and i could get back to being silent dumb apathetic and estranged from my fellow oppressed (and tough) working class conrads that's right i didn't give a damn for the plight of strimmers before and a large part of me still doesn't - i must be a right asshole - despite the fact we're all being constantly strimmed over / up the arts by the rich and powerful after finishing ir strim matey deliberately set up ir incredibly loud wood chipper directly beneath my window and stayed there for about four hours - cheers mate all solidarity to you example links [cambridge university press: slavery and the birth of working-class racism in england 1814–1833](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/transactions-of-the-royal-historical-society/article/slavery-and-the-birth-of-workingclass-racism-in-england-18141833the-alexander-prize-essay/3ee614f0996a6c28f811e272195a42c2) [jacobin: george orwell and the proles](https://jacobin.com/2018/08/hope-lies-proles-john-newsinger-review-george-orwell-working-class-socialism) [ heckler news: pakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf blowers and trimmers](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26359424) // republic of bob