THE BRITISH BOOMERANG EFFECT: WORLD SWALLOWERS YESTERDAY, SWALLOWED TODAY

Map of all the British empire´s territories. Source: Wikipedia.

By Gundhramn Hammer, PhD
January 1, 2017 

"Man is never happy unless he makes changes 

to what he changed and changed him."
- Gundhramn Hammer, 2017
Man changing his changes, 
Gundhramns Hammer´s Philosophia

Once upon a time there was a mighty empire. War ships, powder, cannons, horses, intelligence services, freemasons, theologians, preachers, missionaries, secrets (Fig. 1), ambitious merchants, trading vessels, exploited peasants and slaves, employed and deployed experts (e.g., anthopologists, historians, geologists, geographers, physicians, lawyers, botanists, zoologists, etc.), explorers, pimps, hookers, day-dreaming inventors, nature-chewing industrial contraptions, militaries, paid treasure hunters and thieves, crooked pirates and corsaires, greedy investors, cunning bankers, ass-kissing diplomats and reptiloid aristocrats, amongst other folks & things, all created its powerful machine. So powerful that it swallowed half the world. It got to possess a swarm of colonies globally. Historians baptised it the "British empire". It was a metamorphosis of the old into the new Venetian empire located in the north, under control of Babylonian-stemmed lords.

Figure 1. A military geographic secret from the British Intelligence Division in India. Source: Barrow (1893).

As time went by, things changed in the British empire. They changed when the oligarchs & Inc. that controlled (still do) the changes decided to change it to fit the changes done by others like themselves, continental autocratic capos who had also made some changes in their own domains, required changes to keep things from real changes. It was a matter of channelling their dirty water underground.

Thus, one day, due to these changes, the British empire looked like it had lost all of its colonies. A process called "decolonization" (McIntyre, 2014: vii). 

Well, that was done at least politically, because the British bankers soon came up with smooth ropes to keep their former colonies economically rounded up and strapped till today, organised into the "Commonwealth of Nations", and stuffed up with all kinds of "development" and "aid" schemes, loans with heavy interests to be paid by the "decolonised" folks´ great-grandchildren. A daemocratic game of free them all but not yet.

Eventually their changes had a boomerang effect at home. Their changes changed them. The world swallowers of yesterday are being swallowed today (Video 1). Although the British masters have gone from sucking to being sucked, for the British Government owes almost £1.56 trillion today (Wikipedia, 2017b), they have not forgotten to do some sucking and sacking suckers wherever they can find some suckers (see Marshall, 2012).

Video 1. London (UK): East in the West. Uploaded by globalvideopro1.

This British tango goes to show you that cultural, economic, military, industrial and other changes you make, change you. What you shape also shapes you. 

Man´s toys make him a toy too.

As of today, what is left of this imperial monster is changing. And no one knows where those riding on its back will go with the changes from the present changing point.

Whatever change that might be, it will certainly not please everyone for sure in the future. 

History tell us that what man does will do him too.

Faced with an environment that is always changing, man does like to change things, a lot faster - be it to make more bucks, to cope with or to somehow adapt. But when he is changed by what he has changed, he is not always happy with his changes. And back to square one. Again, he gets busy changing what he does not like about his changes in a sequence of never-ending changes.

In a nutshell, "man is never happy unless he makes changes to what he changed and changed him" (Hammer, 2017).

Such is the nature of this earth-chewing, fucking-loving naked primate (Therapsida, Mammalia, Primates, Homididae: Homo sapiens).


Biophilosophising: Mon Capitaine on the British Boomerang Effect

Mon Capitaine, isn´t it ironic that those who once went about cannibalising everyone around the world, today they are being cannibalised.

Oui, mon ami. What goes up must come down. You reap what you sow. The little fish are eating the big fish. Sooner or later, the little fish will change, at least those incorporated into the British modern machine, and also become big fish, as undoubtedly ocurred in the past (see Cooper, 1862; Shaw, 1911, 1923; Ungerer, 2008. Fig. 2), and start heartlessly eating small fish themselves, slowly or rapidly wherever they might be. 

Figure 1. Cover from William Durrant Cooper´s book on aliens in seventeeth-century England. Historically, some of their descendants have undoubtedly become part of modern Britain´s system.

As a matter of fact, it is happening now, mon ami. Little fish are changing and becoming big fish, for the lucky and perseverant ones go to schools and universities to learn the tricks on how to be unsustainable Biosphere-chewing creatures, two-legged dressed-up naked primates that will on swallowing little fish directly or indirectly, performing all sorts of "sustainable" unsustainable jobs for their unsustainable masters, in a process called "social integration" (Wikipedia, 2017a). All living cooped up and crammed up in cities like sardines, cranking up lots of crap daily. 

Let us face it, right now man is busy "harvesting the biosphere" (Smil, 2011). 

We humans have become an environmental cancer on this planet.

Although he talks a lot about changes, the grand inner change that should change what man wants to change is not yet part of his planned changes. 

For now, he is lost in his ever-changing labyrinth of his own changes. And crapped by his own crap.

See you later, alligators! 

Salve!
 

References

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Cooper W.D. (1862). Lists of Foreigners Protestants, and Aliens, Resident in England 1618-1688. From Returns in the State Paper Office. The Camden Society Nº 82. J.B. Nichols and Sons, Westminster, England. 119 pp.

Hammer G. (2017). Man changing his changes. Gundhramns Hammer´s Philosophia Blog. December 31, 2017.

Marshall P. (2012). UK aid funded firms "linked to Nigeria fraudster Ibori". BBC News, 16 April 2012.

McIntyre W.D. (2014). Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands. Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA. 278 pp. 

Shaw W.A. (Ed.) (1911). Letters of Denizations and Acts of Naturalization of Aliens in England and Ireland 1603-1700. The Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, Volume 18. Chas. Y. King, Lymington, England. 412 pp.

Shaw W.A. (Ed.) (1923). Letters of Denizations and Acts of Naturalization of Aliens in England and Ireland 1701-1800. The Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, Volume 27. Sherrat & Hughes, Manchester, England. 276 pp.

Smil V. (2011). Harvesting the biosphere: The human impact. Popul. Develop. Rev., 37 (4): 613-636. 

Ungerer G. (2008). The presence of Africans in Elizabethan England and the performance of "Titus Andronicus" at Burley-on-the-Hill, 1595/96. Mediev. Renaiss. Drama England, 21: 19-55.

Wikipedia (2017a). Social integration. Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco, CA. USA.

Wikipedia (2017b). United Kingdom national debt. Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco, CA. USA.