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"Dear Roger and the staff at Harmony Health,

"I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for your care and dedication to my parents for the 3+ years that Harmony was put into place to care for them in their home.

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Gameplay Experience in a Gaze Interaction Game

Lennart E. Nacke, Sophie Stellmach, Dennis Sasse, and Craig A. Lindley. 2009. Gameplay Experience in a Gaze Interaction Game. In A. Villanueva, J.P. Hansen, and B. K. Ersbo II. Eds. Proceedings of COGAIN 2009. Lyngby, Denmark. The COGAIN Association, 49-54.

Assessing gameplay experience for gaze interaction games is a challenging task. For this study, a gaze interaction Half-Life 2 game modification was created that allowed eye tracking control. The mod was deployed during an experiment at Dreamhack 2007, where participants had to play with gaze navigation and afterwards rate their gameplay experience. The results show low tension and negative affects scores on the gameplay experience questionnaire as well as high positive challenge, immersion and flow ratings. The correlation between spatial presence and immersion for gaze interaction was high and yields further investigation. It is concluded that gameplay experience can be correctly assessed with the methodology presented in this paper.


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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Meyers/Cornerstone Day 3 (A Day of Highs and Lows)

Our day began with another delicious breakfast of Haitian scrambled eggs, freshly squeezed juice, pancakes, and Haitian style oatmeal.  After morning devotions, we eagerly hopped in the "tap-tap" (so called because if you want to get off, you tap on the side of the vehicle).  Our first stop was the Haitian History Museum where we learned from our tour guide the history of the country's quest for freedom from foreign domination.  The atrocities done to the citizens of Haiti during its fight for freedom humbled us and reminded us of the sinful nature of mankind and our need for a Savior.  On our second stop we learned the history of Papillion.  This business was started by an American woman coming to Haiti to adopt a child only to learn that the child had parents, but they could not afford to raise that child.  As a result, she helped start a business that would allow her to provide work for the Haitians which would allow them to earn an income and provide for their children.  We supported their business by purchasing lunch at their café and shopping in their boutique where they sell handcrafted goods (many of which are produced in their production area across the street).  While at Papillion, we learned of the power of an idea blessed by God to work a miracle in the life of God's people in Haiti.  Our afternoon was spent in ministry at the Home for Sick and Dying Babies.  We entered a large room with approximately 50 small, numbered cribs lined up with only a narrow walkway between each set of 4 and the cribs lining the wall.  In each crib, there was an infant (1 month to 24 months old) in varying stages of illness.  Our mission was to assist the lady workers by feeding, diapering, and holding these precious babies.  As we held these babies, we were able to pray for them, sing to them, and "Give our Hands to serve and our hearts to love (Mother Teresa)."  Matthew 25:40 says the following:  I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.  Thank you, Jesus, for this day of highs and lows.  -Linda


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Is there any way I can pause on the zoom out at the end of the scribe, and allow the video and voice-over to carry on for a few seconds in that view, before both are abruptly cut off?

1) Disable the zoom-at-end feature (because you will be replicating it manually)
2) Add one last element to the end of your scribe (might as well choose something with a small file size)
3) Place it far enough away from the other elements that it will not be seen in the final zoom out (OR change the opacity to zero)
4) AND change the drawing time to zero for the new element
5) Zoom the camera out manually (plus and minus buttons in the lower left of the canvas) to where you want it (to show all of the remaining elements)
6) and set that position as the camera position for the new element. (select the newest element and click the "set camera" button)
7) Add as many pauses to the new element to add as much extra time as you want.
8) the transition time of the previous element will determine how fast the camera moves to this new zoomed out position. you can adjust that if desired.

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Winter tourism in the Khibiny

Winter in the Khibiny is snowy. Mild cold climate creates an ideal conditions for winter tourism. Therefore, the Khibiny mountains are famous not only by mineral mining but excellent ski bases, interesting excursions. Those who spend winter holidays skiing or snowboarding will certainly appreciate the surroundings of Kirovsk and Apatity. Kirovsk is literally surrounded by mountains. It is easy to find entertainment for any taste here. Downhill ski bases are located near the town, they have developed infrastructure. Snow routes can be found in mountains Aikuavenchorr and Kukisvumchorr.

Ski tourism in Hibiny

Ski tourism in Hibiny

The richest one in ski routes, famous Sleeping Beauty is Aikuavenchorr peak. Its slopes have routes and lifts of three mountain ski complexes - «Aikuai», «KolaSportLand» and «Bolshoi Vud'javr». The total length of the routes is about 30 kilometers. Here both amateurs and extreme sport lovers will find something to interest: there are routes of different level. Chair and T-bar lifts will take tourists up to the mountain.

Ski resort «Bolshoi Vud'javr» is named after the lake, dividing the Sleeping Beauty and Kirovsk. Length of ski routes is about 16 kilometers, some routes are lit by electricity. There are two lifts and 12 different routes.

«KolaSportLand» offers 4 lifts and cable-chair lift. Among routes of complex tourists prefer «Latvija» lift. Route length is 1300 meters.

«Aikuai» complex is located in the opposite slope from Kirovsk - Aikuavenchorr. Two lifts work without stops, lifting tourists by 550 meters. Routes have length of 3 kilometers.

Namesake mountain skiing complex is located in Kukisvumchorr mount. Routes of 8 kilometers length is steeper than long routes of Aikuavenchorr. Snowboard lovers enjoy Kukisvumchorr.

In Apatity there is a great place for skiing as well - Vorobyinaya mountain. Slope is protected against wind than routes in Kirovsk, therefore snow keeps here longer. This slope is more suitable for beginners, here the young sportsmen are training.

Extreme skiing lovers will like rocky mountain of Vud'javchorr. Under rock cliffs, in shallows the snow lay till the end of May. Especially desperate skiers go down by snow piles by risking to be covered by avalanche.

Downhill skiing resorts offer not only skiing and snowboarding but inflatable sledge and snowmobiles. Necessary outfit can be rented in the base, experienced coachers will teach the art of mountain maneuver: both children and grandparents.

Vacation in the Khibiny mountains is not only for downhill skiers or adrenalin-seekers. For peaceful relaxation one can spend time being surrounded by snowy mountains and mysterious northern people-Saami.

Ski tourism in Hibiny

Walking tours in winter are undesirable and dangerous. It is easier to drive snowmobiles that guides successfully make use of. There are organized snowmobile safari to Lovozero and Seidozero, to reindeer herders. One can learn to manage reindeer team, taste original Saami cuisine, know the everyday life of reindeer herders.

You can take snowmobile safari directly to the White Sea and then came back. Winter holidays in the Khibiny is of special color. Tourists can celebrate the New Year and spend holidays together with Saami in Krasnoschelye.

Christmas in the Khibiny is unique one. Among snow-capped mounts and deep gorges, surrounded by snow and reindeers winter festival will be really mysterious. No internet connection and telephone net in Krasnoschelye will allow tourists unite with the nature of the Khibiny.

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Oklahoma Couple Apprehended For Cryptocurrency Theft

Two men supposed to be involved in the theft of millions of dollars from a California-based cryptocurrency company have been apprehended by the Oklahoma police, according to local media.

Fletcher Robert Childers, and Joseph Harris 21, of Missouri, were apprehended on the notion of grand theft, a first-degree felony, and identity theft, a Class C misdemeanor. If found guilty, the couple would be charged with up to 35 years of imprisonment, according to Oklahoma state laws.

Court documents filed by Crowd Machine, a San Jose-based decentralized IT company, mentioned Childers and Harris for their supposed role in a $14 million theft. The report accused the couple of changing the victim’s mobile sim card with a fake one to steal his identity and phone number. This made it possible for the couple to steal from a cryptocurrency wallet registered with the stolen sim and got away with $14 million worth of CMCT tokens.

A probe with the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office and members of the state’s Regional Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT) joint forces with the local Oklahoma police in tracking the phone used in the theft. It was later traced to a hotel, where the successive arrests were made.

The seized phone, based in the court documents was bought by two white men from a close by Walmart.

Crowd Machine only just ended a pre-ICO round of CMCT tokens. For the time being, the company has been released 500 million token units to the market and was having 1.5 billion ICO tokens ICO tokens in reserve. Following the hack, it was claimed that the accused transferred 1 billion CMCT to cryptocurrency exchanges, some outside the United States. Crowd Machine urged its members to be alert in dealing with the compromised wallet address. Most exchanges stopped trading of CMCT tokens after the warning was announced.

“It is highly recommended that no one purchase CMCTs until the criminal investigations have ceased, at which time, we expect closed exchanges to re-open. Purchases of stolen tokens by those not involved with the theft will be honored,” Craig Sproule, the CEO and co-founder of Crowd Machine wrote.

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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Getting serious with sample accuracy

gmerlin-avdecoder has a sample accurate seek API for some time now. What was missing was a test to prove that seeking happens really with sample accuracy.

Test tool
The strictest test if a decoder library can seek with sample accuracy is to seek to a position, decode a video frame or a bunch of audio samples. Compare these with the frame/samples you get if you decode the file from the beginning. Of course, the timestamps must also be identical. A tool, which does this, is in tests/seektest.c. I noticed, that video streams easily pass this test, usually even if no sample accurate access was requested. That's probably because I thought, that video streams are more difficult. So I put more brainload into them. Therefore I'll concentrate on audio streams in this post.

Audio codec details
When seeking in video streams, you have keyframes, which tell you where decoding of a stream can be resumed after a seek. It's sometimes difficult to implement this, but at least you always know what to do.

The naive approach for audio streams is to assume, that all blocks (e.g. 1152 samples for mp3) can be decoded independently. Unfortunately, reality is a bit more cruel:

Bit reservoir
This is a mechanism, which allows to make pseudo VBR in a CBR stream. If a frame can be encoded with fewer bits than allocated for the frame, it can leave the remaining bits to a subsequent (probably more complex) frame. The downside of this trick is, that after a seek, the next frame might need bits from previous frames to be fully decoded.

Oberlapping transform
Most audio compression techniques work in the frequency-domain, so between the audio signal and the compression stage, there is some kind of fft-like transform.

Now, for reasons beyond this post, overlapping transforms are used by some codecs. This means, that for decoding the first samples of a compressed block, you need the last samples of the previous block. The image below shows one channel of an AAC stream for the case that the overlapping was ignored when seeking. You see that the beginning of the frame is not reconstructed properly, because the previous frame is missing.

Both the bit reservoir and the overlapping can be boiled down to a single number, which tells how many sample before the actual seek point the decoder must restart decoding. This number is set by the codec during initialization, and it's used when we seek with sample accuracy.

Mysterious liba52 behavior
Even if sample accuracy was achieved, the AC3 streams (which are on DVDs or in AVCHD files) don't achieve bit exactness. The image below shows, that there is no time shift between the signals (which means that gmerlin-avdecoder seeks correctly), but the values are not exactly the same.

First I blamed the AC3 dynamic range control for this behavior. Dynamic range compressors always have some kind memory across several frames. But even after disabling DRC, the difference was still there. I would really be curious if that's a principal property of AC3 being non-deterministic or if it's a liba52 bug.

The table below lists all audio codecs, which were taken into consideration. They represent a huge percentage of all files found in the wild. The next important codecs are the uncompressed ones, but these are always sample accurate.

Compression Library OverlapBit reservoir Bit exact
MPEG-1, layer II libmad - - +
MPEG-1, layer IIIlibmad + + +
AAC faad2 + ? (assumed -) +
AC3 liba52 + ? (assumed -) - (see image above)
Vorbis libvorbis + - +

Obtaining the information summarized here was a very painful process with web researches and experiments. The documentation of the decoder libraries regarding sample accurate and bit exact seeking is extremely sparse if not non-existing.

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burkhard said...

I searched a bit in the liba52 source and I found that at some point it makes dithering. Dithering means adding noise (=random numbers) to the signal. So it's clear that this becomes non-deterministic.


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We are building national dialogue around issues affecting the creation and retention of wealth for Hispanic households. After the Great Recession, the wealth gap for Latinos became wider when the community suffered tremendous economic losses in the housing crisis. The Hispanic Wealth Project was created with the intention of fostering an ecosystem for recovery and Hispanic wealth creation by setting out actionable initiatives to ensure the economic prosperity of Latinos.


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Nov 082017

I’m off to the Dhaka Literary Festival next week. The programme has not been published yet, so I can’t reveal what I will be doing, but it will involve defending the British Empire, or at least criticising those who are attacking it.

This is going to be an odd experience, becaeuse I am not ‘an apologist for empire’ as I am sure I will be called. I will have to stand up in front of a large South Asian crowd and say things that will probably not make me very popular. But, if liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. That is a quote from George Orwell, and he was no apologist for empire. So I’ll take it from there, be prepared to duck, and see what happens.

If I am defending anything it is (as ever) a balanced approach to history, a historical account that is not unduly swayed by nationalism. A great deal of South Asian history has been – British imperial history included – but this again puts me in a potentially awkward spot.

Because I actually approve of nationalism – up to a point. It seems to me unlikely that it is possible to run a mass democracy without some form of national identity underpinning the whole enterprise. Nationalism in that sense can be positive, if it binds people together and supports a shared project. This is a partial and rather optimistic view, though, of what nationalism actually is and does.

Frequently it reverts from an initial positive impulse into a sustained negative force, defining primarily not who is in the group but who is outside it. The identification of friends, or an inclusive view of neighbours, can easily degenerate into the demonising of anyone not in line with majority expectations or norms.

I can point out that Indians were colluding with the imperial project all through, for all sorts of reasons both high and low; we cannot neatly separate British and Indians within British India. I can point out that the British unified India, though at a high cost in blood and treasure, that this created the modern states of South Asia, and that we cannot know that whatever else might have happened, had the British been driven out, would have been ‘better’. I could point out that Britain did not cart off the very large proportion of India’s wealth that is routinely claimed, though manipulation of the economy, including extraction and under-stimulation, certainly occurred. I could venture that, when the British arrived, India was not as rich as nationalists insist, and was therefore not quite as relatively impoverished when they left. I could explain how India’s deficits with Britain, which were never crippling, were made good by trade surpluses with other nations. I can even point out all the multifarious mistakes, misrepresentations, omissions and distortions of my adversaries.

I can say all that, and I’ll say it as nicely as I can. I’ll even be an apologist – meaning I’m quite happy to say sorry – for empire and its misdeeds.

But I’ll still be ready to duck.

 Posted by at 2:07 pm
Aug 142017

Another article by me in Open Magazine here.

A terrible sorry business, long in the making.

This piece looks at the process, and takes a very brief view of what went wrong. It also asks why anyone thought that it was so unlikely, based as it was on a vision, a nationalist view that seemed determined to ignore all obstructions and difficulties.

Beware nationalism. It makes states, and that was the problem.

 Posted by at 4:32 pm
Jul 032017

Article by me in Open magazine here.

I am not explicitly defending the empire and all its works, but I am asking for some balance in the account, and warning against the persistence of nationalist interpretations.

One comment so far. She accepts all of Tharoor’s points and rejects all of mine, then adds some ad hominem stuff about my condescending manner.

And thus ably and economically proves all of the points I made.

 Posted by at 12:11 pm
Jun 032017

I have been asked to give a short talk at SOAS about my work and its ethos. I am delighted and honoured to be asked, and to help clear my head, I will set out here roughly what I will say.

I started to write about India because I was asked to supply material for a website, and I found the task very interesting. I read a lot, and it was very clear to me how much of what I was reading was biased. Lesson one was that Indian history is very politicised. Why, was my next question, and I still don’t have a glib answer. The newness and complexity of the country are factors, as is the fact of imperial domination by Britain. Having said that, I shall leave the issue for the moment.

I have written three books, with another to come shortly. Throughout, I have tried to remain open-minded, or at least as open-minded as it is possible to be in a country that has its own history and ingrained prejudices of various kinds. But I was clear about my method. I did not reach a conclusion and go looking for evidence to support it.

Shashi Tharoor has just done this, by deciding that the British Empire was bad, and finding ways to show that it was. Even-handedness, balance, the case for the defence goes by default. Result – a readable book, but one that is more polemic than history. And little advancement of our understanding.

Another example would be Ranajit Guha who decided that India’s peasants must have been socialists, and then went looking to recover lost voices and fragments to prove it. Again, the results are unconvincing to a reader who is not already comfortable with the conclusion. Ideally, arguments should persuade the doubter rather than confirm a believer’s prejudices.

In my case, I came to several conclusions that rather surprised me, and I held back from setting them out for a while. Now I feel I can.

First, I found nothing new in imperialism. It is a post-rationalised construct, created by its enemies with hindsight. Imperialism was a certain cultural outlook, short-lived and instrumental. There was a purpose to it, and that was to disqualify subject colonial populations from taking part in government. Its alleged links with capitalism are weak and unconvincing. Lenin was wrong. Or maybe just biased.

Second, I came to view the whole narrative of India’s march to socialism as flawed and misplaced. The Congress was never a socialist party, and its mass following was not revolutionary. Gandhi spoke of ramrajya dressed like a sadhu. He was immediately comprehensible to India’s masses in a way that Nehru’s intellectual socialism was not. Trying to turn the independence movement into a social movement is straining the evidence. The Congress was a nationalist movement, without doubt. And as we all know, nationalism supports all sorts of distorted views, especially of outsiders.

These conclusions gradually forced a new view of the Anglo-Indian connection onto me. They enabled me to see that connection as the axis of liberal modernity – the link that created the first, stable liberal democracies in both Europe and Asia.

The British were forced to develop liberalism as a result of the experience of ruling India – a journey into the philosophy and practice of government that was not self-government. This makes the Anglo-Indian link more important in the history of liberalism than the French Revolution, which touched on liberal principles, but whose main result was the development of nationalism.

India had its own modernisers. All the major social legislation enacted by the British was supported by Indians, as well as opposed. Here a distinction must also be made. Ram Mohan Roy and Swami Vivekananda were modernisers, not westernisers. Gandhi was a conservative radical, with a natural sympathy with liberal principles, but he was actually a believer in Vedanta – the oneness of all, non-duality – and not a natural friend of the modern state. He believed in mutual obligations and duties, which were harmonious and could not be rescinded, rather than rights, which existed at the state’s pleasure, and could.

This was a long-term benefit for India, and might have come in its own way. But what did not, and could not, and represents the great British contribution to India, was internal disarmament. Under British rule Indians stopped fighting each other, and the political thinkers – the Roys, Vivekanandas, and Mahatmas – could grow in an atmosphere of peace.

The final twist was that the British had backed the conservative landholding classes after the revolt of 1857, and it was by the slimmest piece of good fortune that the Congress leadership remained progressive, and immediately after independence drew up a modern constitution, in appropriately liberal, secular language. This assured the birth of an India that could reform herself – which was not a likely result of late British imperial policy.

India was thus not always the beneficiary of British rule – the economic story is quite another tale – but the ultimate result, the India of today, has a joint heritage that only a very convinced – and poorly read – nationalist would seek to deny.

 Posted by at 6:46 pm
Apr 152017

Can anyone tell me why I am getting so many visitors from African countries in the last 48 hours?

I would be much obliged.

Too much spam. Comments closed.

 Posted by at 10:03 am
Mar 102017

A review by me today in Open magazine of Gurinder Chadha’s new film, The Viceroy’s House.

There has been a lot of interest here recently in my Partition conspiracy articles. The review covers most of what I have to say about The Shadow of the Great Game by Narendra Singh Sarila. An ambitious and well written book, but misconceived at its very heart.

 Posted by at 11:36 am
Jan 272017

The times are out of joint. Can the centre hold? Brexit, Trump – then what? No one seems to know what is going on. What is populism? Is it a new thing, or just the return of something old?

Yes, something new is going on. There are several familiar layers to the recent upheavals and surprises, but under it all lies a reckoning that has been a long time coming. To understand it we need to retreat from modern jargon and revisit some older, more reliable political vocabulary, which can help clear away the slanted words in current usage. What we are currently experiencing is a long-delayed crisis; the crisis of fraternity.

Fraternity is an underused word and an undervalued principle, but it lurks behind every sentence that contains a ‘we’ or an ‘us’. To define ‘them’ we first need to know who ‘we’ are. This is not always easy, and fraternity has been a Cinderella idea, standing ragged beside her gaudy sisters, liberty and equality. Fraternity remains the Holy Ghost, or feminine principle, of the French revolutionary trinity that has dominated so much of our political thinking since 1789. Since then we have been living in a world of liberal assumptions, and these three linked terms are still a good starting point for assessing the condition of liberal institutions, such as the democratic nation state, and for stabilizing complex discussions that risk descending into petty party politics. Liberty, equality and fraternity still provide useful guidelines to help focus a longer view of our common history.

Such a view will tell us that we have now reached the first modern crisis of fraternity. Circumstances have conspired to make us question not democracy, which has taken on a new vigour in the minds of many right of centre people, but to question what our communities are, and what they mean.

Theorizing the local level of politics has never been a priority in left of centre thinking. Liberals and socialists have had plenty to say about humanity, mass movements and international affairs, but rather less to say about traditional or hereditary groupings. Meanwhile all the theorizing about global capital has always seemed a little abstract – until now, when suddenly we see it working in a destructive way, against strongly cohesive groups of people at a local level. We can now see losers in the twenty-first century world that we have not seen before, within wealthy societies. And these groups of losers have fallen into the hands of the right, not the left, to such a degree that we currently see the radical right calling for trust in the people – more democracy – and the liberal left wary of that trust, and of the instincts of the masses.

We can now see how the coincidence of interest between sections of the political right and the forces of capital has broken down. The cultural damage wrought by ruthless international action – globalization – is very evident, while many of its benefits seem to have evaporated. But what has then happened is not a workers’ revolution for more socialism; what has happened is a workers’ revolt against destitution, but framed as a movement in favour of local cultural units. The workers have finally struck for fraternity, of all things. But the fraternity they want is an older style of fraternity they remember (or imagine), not the new fraternity that they feel they have been whipped into.

With the massive cultural technological and social change that the past three decades have given us – including the collapse of global communism, the liberalization of Eastern Europe and the destruction of several regimes in the Middle East – a great many old assumptions have been brutally challenged. The old certainties of left and right have been so shaken around that nostalgia has become a left liberal vice and radical change a right-wing demand.

Conservatism has never been truly party political, but the defence of workers against the interests of capital always was. No longer, with insurgent parties of the cultural right lining up to criticise multinational corporations. When billionaire property tycoon Donald Trump can lambast the evil workings of capital, we know something has changed at a very deep level.

The concept of fraternity has been fractured, because we now have two kinds of social empathy on offer. We have an older style of interconnection based on ancestral ties, traditional habits and superficial appearances, which has lost its friends in high places, and is being challenged by a new style of rational, economic fellow-feeling based on circumstance and proximity. The former relates to our upbringing; the latter to our individual aspirations. The former is prescriptive and narrow, the latter pragmatic and broad. Conservative temperaments on both left and right have clung to the old style of fraternity; economic right wingers and metropolitan liberals have adopted the new.

The internal contradictions between the demands of culture and of capital have never been so sharply revealed. Over recent decades the right managed to win the economic debate, while the left racked up victories over social issues, and we now live in a right wing economic world modified and managed by left of centre social thinking. But in a time of mass migration, the liberal instincts of permission and tolerance have been shown up as inadequate to the task of integrating new communities at speed. The governmental response all over the West has been social policing, in an attempt to validate and manage the new societies that have grown up. This was not a bad option; it was inevitable in the face of the scale of, and the economic demand for, migration, and the attendant social change.

But the illiberal element in this integration has become increasingly pressurized as freedom of movement and capital has not been matched by freedom of speech, or adequate welfare. Indeed, welfare has proved a very difficult area. Who should be supported? This leads us straight back to the problems of fraternity. Who should be included in our social model? As a side issue, here we have also opened a real and pithy debate on the subject of deserving. Now we are discussing not just the undeserving poor, but also who are the undeserving rich. The criticism of elites started here.

Accelerated change has opened a new chapter in the battle between liberty and equality. No one much disputes the value of freedom, but equality is a hotter topic than ever. It is often distinctly resented in the current context, whenever it feels like it has been imposed. Equality needs qualification, in both senses of the word. It feels better when it is achieved, or somehow earned, or remains as an ideal that no one has quite managed to attain. Liberty has also become a more qualified benefit; too much freedom in the hands of other people can be perceived as a threat, and it can often feel like others are getting away with too much. The best freedom leads to a just and stable equality. But imposed equality is akin to tyranny.

The classic triad is increasingly out of kilter, but not just because equality has staked more demands on us than liberty. It is also that its third leg has come under unaccustomed pressure. It is, in fact, being examined rigorously for the first time.

Where is fraternity now then? To understand how it can work, and where it fits, we need to spend a moment covering the working of the classic trinity, and the special status fraternity occupies within it.

Americans have never been too keen on equality. They have always prioritised liberty, and have spent more time worrying about how liberty can be squared with security, rather than equality. In France, the obsession has always been equality; laïcité is an extended exercise in equality. By contrast, the whole EU project was from the start an experiment in fraternity. And it has struggled to thrive. Created by top-down thinking, the EU’s inventors assumed that a new fraternity could be created, or perhaps revealed, on a continental scale. Unfortunately this has proved to be the kind of fraternity we can only find stamped on coins.

Some may gloat if a lack of fraternity wrecks the EU. Not many will cheer if its weakening dissolves the United Kingdom. Only a reckless few will rejoice if our towns descend into mutually uncomprehending ghettoes, for want of a feeling of belonging or common purpose.

Liberty relates to government, and equality to the law, but fraternity relates to society. This means that fraternity has no institutional organs, beyond the simple building blocks of the family and perhaps the clan. Any larger unit requires theorization, and in the atomized world of cash relations, only the family has survived as a real fraternal unit in today’s social landscape (and radical sexual political theory has had a go at discrediting the family as a valid unit, too). Every grouping larger than the family rests on a process of choice, and it is clear how left and right temperaments build different structures. On the left there is the choice of classes, on the right nations, faiths and even races.

So fraternity, the one thing that the French revolutionaries thought they did not have to fight for, is now defined by politics as much as liberty and equality are. But fraternity is very different in its roots from the other two ideas. It can only be the subject of negative law – what you can’t do to your neighbour. Liberty can be granted, equality enforced or imposed, but fraternity must be felt. Fraternity is the one thing we have to give, a thing we have to make real by our own autonomous actions, as individuals. It must in the end be freely given, for there is no legal force to the idea that one should love one’s neighbour.

Unhappy people all over the Anglo-Saxon world have recently called into question their societies and their governments, but not – it must be made clear – their democracies. This is a truly modern phenomenon because the revolutionaries and nationalist liberals of previous times never examined the basic nature of their societies; they were trying to express them in democratic political institutions. They challenged the traditional forms of government they lived under, and demanded new institutions that could solidify, sustain and protect identity, not create it. They did not challenge the substance of their societies, because they accepted the nature of the ones they lived in.

This is not true in 2017. Too many people feel that the society they live in has been altered, that its very substance has been changed. Their anger has been vented on governments they feel are not loyal to the people they govern. Treachery has a new directionality. Treason used to be a matter of individuals betraying a government; now the nouveaux enragés maintain that rulers can betray the people.

So, how did it come to this?

The nineteenth century was dominated by a succession of struggles for practical liberty, which involved building viable containers for it, namely nation states, and creating legal systems that could guarantee political and personal freedoms. Twentieth century struggles were mostly about equality. Both battles were won, with enormous benefit for everyone on the planet, except hereditary absolute monarchs. And this two-hundred-year sequential process was entirely logical in intellectual and social terms. Liberty established the concept of rights, and then allowed them to be equally enjoyed. Equality could not come first as a principle because there was no way of working out what should be equally shared. Equality by itself achieves nothing and does not improve our societies. But democratic systems of rights are not possible without general legal equality, and they were duly secured through the twentieth century.

Yet in all the excitement an important point was overlooked. The search for liberty is finite. There is only so much liberty any person or any society can enjoy. More and more liberty does not give you a better life. Nor have governments been keen to extend liberty indefinitely. Across recent decades, in the interests of security and in times of war, they have positively limited it. But equality has been another story. Equality is potentially unlimited in its application, and the struggles of the twentieth century went further than any traditional liberal ever expected. Although there was resistance in the end to the Maoist agenda, other less militant work still remained to be done.

The equality agenda, however, has often proved highly unpopular among citizens, though it is very alluring to governments, to whom it represents work to be undertaken for everyone’s sake as a moral good, and as a gesture of good faith to the lower echelons of democratic societies, who are assumed to need evidence that their elected rulers are working in their interests. Disadvantage drives the equality agenda, and thus, inevitably, democracy does too. Equality is peculiarly amenable to measurement – of income, life expectancy, and indices of human development of all kinds, including happiness. Therefore, at least in theory, it is manageable, and a government’s main business is management, especially in the interests of its own popularity. Even if a society is not becoming more prosperous, it is still considered good liberal form to make it less unequal.

Equality, thus, is more measurable than liberty, and has more social utility; liberty does not protect the weak, whereas equality is supposed to. But who really needs the protection is a deeper question. Here fraternity comes in again; fraternity is an extra protection against exploitation. Fraternity and fairness go together as closely as fraternity and deserving.

But in terms of government policy, the fraternity agenda has always been downplayed, if not outright neglected. Fraternity is assumed to be natural, and to spring from social interaction, rather than to condition it, or emerge from it. But is this correct?

The alarming truth, from a governmental angle, is that fraternity is out of reach of executive fiat. Liberty can be granted, equality can be enforced, but fraternity can only be fostered. Yet it is centrally important to social life, more even than equality. Fraternity is the dynamic engine of democracy, the ultimate justification for rights. When it comes to rights, equality ranks only as the means, while fraternity is the reason. Liberty is then the result, the beneficial outcome. Of the three great French obsessions, fraternity is the active principle, while the other two are passive.

And the real world results of all this have finally come into political focus. Enter populism. Simple messages, big personalities, loud voices, sharp grievances, all joined by the neglected thread of fraternity. Mainstream democratic parties have proved ill equipped to defend themselves against freebooting politicians who correctly identify deep discontents. Pinpointing the emotional centre of these discontents, and voicing them in the right tone has translated into real support at the ballot box. Solutions are not necessary; they can come later, or maybe not at all. The powerful, even immoderate expression of group identity is the objective. This is what we are seeing.

The Second World War was a war of ideologies, which, confusingly, had two winners – liberalism and communism. The Cold War was the subsequent, prolonged shoot-out, and liberalism won. Then the brakes were off. The infinite quest for justice and equality continued, while free markets ran amok.

All the while there has been no proper discussion of fraternity since Aristotle, who first realised it was necessary for the smooth functioning of any political system.

The Trump-Brexit phenomenon, in as much as it can be taken as one thing, comes out of a lack of understanding of fraternity among leaders, and a sense of its loss among citizens. But this rebellious phenomenon is not a true movement, despite Trump’s claim. It has far too little to underpin it; it has no agreed aims, only a vast sump of shared discontent driven by rapid change, new interconnectivity, cultural disorientation and a sense that democratic institutions are too unresponsive. What Brexiteers and Trumpers perceive is not wrong; real problems have been identified. Where the insurgent anti-establishment ‘movement’ is weak is in analysis, and particularly solutions. How to fix things. That is the question. And answers so far have not emerged.

Let us therefore not misunderstand the wave of so-called populism that has swept the globe, from India in 2014 to the US election of last November. Populism is many things – an addiction to simplicity, a cadre of insurgent opportunist leaders, a rallying call for militant localism. What it is not is the arrival of new thinking about solutions to our common problems. On the contrary, it is simply a massive hubbub of discontent about shared pain, a collective agreement about what our problems are.

To find solutions – apart from wishing for a general upturn in our economic circumstances – we need to look a little at the roots and mechanisms of fraternity, and in particular to unscramble it from the idea of identity.

 Posted by at 7:51 am
Dec 162016

Global events have been very difficult to follow in recent months, and undoubtedly the situation has changed a great deal in the last ten years. The true, yet unsuspected depth of this change has only revealed itself recently via democratic processes, whereas it usually remains hidden, thickly covered by the manipulations and deceits of party politics in the richer countries.

But there is an underlying sense to much of this, and we must accept that a gestalt change or even a ‘renversement des alliances’ is underway all over advanced societies and the wider global structures they have built. Fukuyama was right, but he was also very wrong. What has come to an end is not history, but the bipolar conflict, bequeathed by the Second World War, of a global liberal left against a global hard left.

Many groups, states and ideas emerged defeated from that war, but the most egregious losers were the nation-loving nationalists of the old style. What followed was the formation of a large number of supra-governmental creations, and a drive to defang the nation states that had given us a century of competition, conflict and war from 1848 to 1945. Welcome UN, NATO, EU, and all the other regional clubs.

In the Cold War that ensued, the liberal left eventually beat the hard left all over the world. The struggle against communism, both ideological and military, came to an end. But in labelling this as a terminal event Fukuyama was wrong, as he was about so many other things, which any pupil of Samuel Huntington was always likely to be.

The liberals beat the communists with economics. Hands down. And the national varieties within that victory revealed themselves as -isms preceded by names from Reagan to Blair. But economics was not enough for some, and there was always a grumble about culture underlying the liberal social agenda, with its tenderness to minorities, the unfortunate and the feeble. The anti-freedom agenda – seen as anti the right of the strong to exploit the weak – was fiercely resented, and mercilessly parodied all over the West, especially in North America.

Now we have a new game, in which the globally victorious left cannot beat the locally based right with economics, for two reasons. 1 Wealth was never enough for the right in its cultural, traditional or conformist strands. 2. The left-liberal project eventually ran into trouble over public debt and private speculation, leading to grand busts in the 2010s, of the Eurozone and the world’s banking systems.

And here we are, still living with political systems that were posited on historic left and right viewpoints – which certainly still exist – but which were built around party polarities that do not currently reflect the nature of public debate. And indeed an international community set up to combat various common threats upon which we no longer agree. The right have peeled away increasingly from the old liberal view of the world. Putin is now our friend. Why? Because he wants to fight Islam more vigorously than western governments. And for some he is a better national role model – strong, anti-gay, patriotic, decisive and so forth. Patriots within western countries now feel more able to support Putin, and his aims and methods, than their own governments. Patriotism has been redefined as a partial, conditional thing. My country is different from my government. I can hate my government, I can happily believe it is run by traitors, and I can wish it ill, while somehow wishing well on my country.

All across the left, the new dispensation has been embarrassing. The British Labour party has always found its left fringes in sympathy with terrorist groups, from the IRA to Hamas – because they were viewed as national, ‘people’s’ movements opposed to the capitalist west. But the current, Corbyn-led Labour party can produce little in the way of coherent policy toward the Middle East, because all the players there – religious extremists, hereditary monarchs. anti-democratic dictators – are all anti socialist. But some of them are also anti capitalist and anti western. ideological lines have become impenetrably tangled. The result has been a drastic bout of irrelevance for this kind of thinking, especially as the Levant has dissolved into complicated overlapping dyads, triangles and quadrilaterals of conflicting interests, covert and overt, the existence of which has removed the option of clear and logical side-taking, especially as all the participants are morally compromised in a variety of disgusting ways. Welcome, then, the return of medieval warfare, where the fight is dirty, the sides are fluid and the end result is never clear.

Result – most of what we have known is currently irrelevant, and party systems have not adapted. Donald Trump – the first non-party politician to rule a western democracy – will struggle to run a complex entity like the US with so few beholden friends, but meanwhile, both home and abroad, he can select his allies at will, untrammelled by previous alignments that all seem mired in old fashioned and inappropriate interests. So, at home his counsellors are his family, and his minions are star businessmen and military figures of a completely traditional, right wing, can-do type. And abroad, it’s down with China. a power that does matter, and up with Russia. a power that doesn’t.

Now, the prime conflict is not between liberal left and hard left on a global scale, it is between left and right in single, local arenas. The old arguments have not gone away, they have come back with renewed relevance and unrestrained vitriol. Alarmingly, the bitterness of this revived division has led to the abolition of most of the old common ground, while its eschewal of received norms has rendered all news sources, including national intelligence services, suspect. Facts are the first casualties of the renewed hostilities.

Welcome to the new bipolar, left-right world.

 Posted by at 4:47 pm
Dec 102016

The general reaction to current events seems to be bafflement – a stunned acceptance that nothing makes sense and that everything is changing. Respecfully, I disagree.

An important initial point is that all the current dislocation did not start with Brexit, but was well under way by the time Corbyn was elected in the UK. In fact. there was a lot of discernible movement after the 2008 crash, and it is possible to see all sorts of global disruption long before that. What we are seeing is the dismantling of the post-1945 consensus on a number of issues, an important harbinger of which was the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The collapse of the USSR has had numerous other long-term, profound effects, and all that we are seeing now can be traced to that event in various ways.

But on the plane of political thinking, the situation is not as unclear as many seem to be willing to concede. For a start, the idea that left and right in politics has disappeared is not correct. These two general outlooks are alive and well, and will continue to thrive among their respective devotees. This familiar division is real and persistent, because it relates to so many important issues across the span of human affairs, particularly the levels, types and degrees of organisation we prefer, and those in turn are related to profound and real differences in human temperament that are activated in different circumstances. Our current modes of expression have changed, or evolved, but the fundamentals on which they rely are still in place.

The big revelation – the one that has thrown the commentators off axis – is that working class people still exist, and that they are quite capable of holding right wing views. This has never been a popular idea in left circles, but Disraeli built a career on it, and perhaps things haven’t changed quite as much since then as many had believed, or at least hoped.

Thus what we should be telling ourselves is not that left and right are dead or defunct, or that one is particularly dominant or well-placed to sustain a long-term dominance. Corbynism is a rehash of 1980s radicalism, and Trumpism is small-man populism from the 1930s rebranded. What has happened is that our party system has been revealed as out of kilter with the fundamental popular perceptions of our times. It is the politicians and their well-schooled machines – and pet projects – that are out of step, not the people or any traditional range of political philosophy.

Most interestingly, the brigade of political columnists are trying to place all this in various views of historical context – which decade are we in again? – but this is missing the point. We are in the 2010s, and, of course, everything is a bit different, and nothing is identical. We are certainly at a moment, like the 1830s, when the party political system makes an ill fit with social realities, and the political class – yes, there is one – will have to make concessions, or find itself out of employment, supplanted by a new cadre that better understands popular concerns. After the 1830s the artistos did fall; the liberal middle classes did take over the show. Something similar may yet happen in our lifetimes, with power moving away from the current cliques – the nexus of bankers, financiers, media moguls and hereditary super rich – to the tech barons or the petty bourgeois rabble rousers.

Internationally, the old bi-partite, Cold War world has gone, and Trump will not restore it. Bad news for the USA there. More revealingly, what is happening at the moment is a massive popular backlash against the political idealism of the later 1940s, and the social idealism of the later 1960s.

High art began to fragment in the 1950s, and popular culture caught up shortly afterwards. Uniquely propitious times were afoot – with a population explosion among the young, and a huge increase in global consumer spending power – two sonorous booms with enormous impact. What followed was a massive rise in the concept of individualism – social and cultural expressions of the self across the board, from religion to sex, via food, music and fashion. The two distinctive social expressions of that period, the rock band and the commune, were both radical attempts to recast social relationships and cultural endeavour, combining individuals in new, supposedly equal and more fitting ways. Old associative structures, particularly class, race, nation and denominational religion, were rejected as too confining, too rigid, and above all, too old. This was fine for the relatively privileged, better educated among the new global youth, who tended to be white and male. As this group was avidly disaggregating itself, a parallel restructuring was going on in several traditionally overlooked and under-organised groups, who could not wait to throw on the garb of collective identity. These included blacks, gays and women, all of whom began to organise in new and more vociferous ways.

This is the consensus that has been overthrown recently. We are back to desiring what is old and avowedly collective. The less educated white males of the West have rejected the power grab by the ‘minorities’, and have expressed a wish to reinstate what amounts to sexism, racism and homophobia. If you don’t believe me, read the comments, look at the banners. Nation is back, but sadly, with none of its inherent contradictions, absurdities and injustices resolved. Au contraire, they have been reemphasised, but dressed up in a newly selective idea of democracy, one in which small majorities (or even a minority in the case of Trump) are enthroned as unassailable and omnipotent. This ‘nu-democracy’ opens up a fresh prospect for our collective lives, in which new applicants cannot appropriately join an old, white, island nation. The new orthodoxy is that multiculturalism ‘doesn’t work’ – a fact now, proved and passionately believed. Make war not peace. Bring back mining.

Doubtless all of this will shake out in due time and we may eventually go back to nice, middle of the road politicians promising us life a little better than it is. The sad thing is that so many people seem to be about to get fooled again. What the Reagans, Clintons, Blairs and Camerons did was to over-promise for too long while not addressing a lot of the social and economic friction that a massive rise in the older population and a massive drop in consumer spending was wreaking across the wealth-hungry West. This has not been addressed in public culture at all, which has swanned on in a bubble of affluent aspiration. The Trumps and Brexiteers of this world, who have double over-promised, will not be able to deliver anything like the goodies they have sold us in advance. What they can deliver is a return to monoculturalism. And we all know where that leads – to stagnation and oppression.

So be careful what you wish for, people. Trumpism is the oldest kind of politics, but founded on bigger lies than anyone has seen for a while.

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