YAALA Series 2 - In
this FPM digest written in a concise nature than our regular exhaustive deliberating
posts, we aim to share some of our fund- and investments-related observations
and activities.We anecdotally question and challenge established wisdom.
Information – The Message, Its Interpretative Use and Its Messenger
The idea of promoting “diversity” has been mooted by about by many as a
positive characteristic. Similar word with such assignation is the word
“choice” as maybe used for example in commercial or political marketing. Indeed,
sticking with dissection of “diversity”, the word has been promoted by local
councils and media as a potent showcase, for example, in demonstrating the
multiculturalism of United Kingdom. The positive associations in the use of the
word such as ‘diversity’ also embodies emptiness of the phrase in actuality. UK is conveyed as a cosmopolitan society right?
Characterised by many religious faiths, food-villages from all over the world,
over 250 spoken languages, etcetera. However the reality is less romantic or an
ideal! London as prime metropolis comes close to being diverse, as does other
UK cities and perhaps SE England. However, do these examples validate UK-wide
as cosmopolitan nation?
Take the languages aspect of
multiculturalism as an example, while we moot that as positive feature of
UK’s historical and current world-wide ties, the reality is that people ONLY SPEAK
English ultimately and predominantly. Ethinicity is always marginalised for the
sake of the national identity. And further, this multilingualism in schools or
culture is not deeply fostered, or at least hasn’t been in the past. Further
other languages is derogatively killed-off or made extinct. How many 2nd
and 3rd generation Italian descendants actually speak their native language?
Or in current migration-terms affecting UK, how many 2nd and 3rd
generation sired peoples of UK will speak Polish or Lithuanian? Think also
historically of Gaelic, Welsh, Olde English and the many languages that
constituted the British Isles before their extinction for the House of Hanover
overrule.
“Where he perceived only a
mass of undifferentiated humanity, she distinguished individuals” Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point, 1928
People brought up and educated in England were proffered the option of
learning sister European languages like French or German, as practical. Was
there ever an education system, private or public which engendered the immigrant
students’ language? By nature in a multicultural nation of immigrants there
are other languages relegated as ‘home-spoken’. Children eventually subscribe
to the language of their peers, asserted culturally as English even if they are
of vague Estonian, Japanese or Sri Lankan origins. How confusing and perplex
is it to really understand a lanuage that is generationally not ones mother-tongue?
This bewilderment by not having a natural evolved generational language can put
a person on the proverbial spot and stuck for cogent reply in a tight spot and
being clumsy. Never mind espousing “language is power” and making the world a
better place!
Isn’t diversity of peoples in
UK really an economic growth policy by expansion of immigration? While this
may not be a popular UK government policy it is nonetheless an unofficial growth
policy. As much as UKIP is protest party to vent native frustration but
officially they are challenged to upset status quo of middle-line kowtowing politicians.
Without digressing, back to the language of diversity. Put in another
way, how many times has anyone seen public signs translated into 2nd
or 3rd language? As seen in other countries. Has anyone looked into know
what is the 2nd and 3rd widely spoken language of diverse
UK is or has been? For graphical representation we have chart below of global languages
– it is not mere coincidence that small Country in Europe has spawned into the
3rd widely spoken language. Aldous Huxley, a true Great British
liberal of aristocratic learning, speculated that "the heart of England is to replace
one meaning with another..."
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To surmise we have information conveyed by the word “diversity”, we
have an interpretation of an idea and what it signifies and portrays in a
context, but what does the messenger really have in ultimate purpose? We refer
you to FPM's introduction of the ‘Straw Man Fallacies'. Some may say sinister and dark motives lie behind
empty slogans and phrases. Or as Naom Chomsky points out, empty slogans and
their meaning, as simply being ascribed to “propaganda”. Recommended reading
by Chomsky "Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda” To reaffirm this point, another global icon
is quoted; “Yoda” in the archetypal George Lucus “Star Wars” films about good versus
evil. The council of Jedi masters (the good guys), were not aware of the emergent
Sith force (the bad guys) so Yoda in his subject-object language starts off as:
“Hard to see, the
dark side is. We must investigate further before drawing a conclusion to the
identity of your adversary.” Yoda - The Phantom Menance, 1999
N.B. If any non-lateral thinking individual questions
how this subject matter is not an FPM article related to investments, we refer
you to information arbitraging SAC Capital Advisers which is now facing
closure. Or please read our forthcoming speculative escalation towards Scottish
Independence – Yes vote and ultimately the premise for European Union
disintegration or greater cohesion under German autocracy.