Charles Dickens Prophecy

Charles Dickens Prophecy OK here us the deal with this particular blog post. You read what Charles Dickens has to say- hey you might learn things –I did. And then when you get to the very end of it- he has a prophecy for us- But promise- no racing to the end- Read all he has to say first just to get a feel for what he is saying and how he is saying it. No Cheating! Promise me- Oh well you win. So I will just now start writing some American Charles Dickens stuff compiled by Smithsonian for their 1976 …. The American Press between Dickens and which a mutual loathing have developed played a predominant role in his relationship with America. There is much in the novel about news- papers filthy black mail and use of forged letters. Independence- ‘we do what we like’ is the excuse for libel and tyranny. Party feelings, erupting violence and political immorality, corruption and trickery are vividly presented. In commercial and public life tooo swindling is tolerated in the national worship of ‘smartness’- ‘We are a smart people her and can appreciate smartness’ …Private and domestic manners and customs are similarly presented in Martin Chuzzlewit, in their ludicrous aspects. Tobacco spitting and chewing and spitting –that constant theme in American Notes and other travel books by Englishmen…so do picking one’s teeth in public…and everyone bolting their food in a hideous race of Voracity. The bad manners and lack of amenity and indifference of the arts and graces of life are automatically defended by the slogan; ‘We are a busy people, sir and have not time for that’. Americans have queer customs- gotten by using and stressing the wrong words, yea and using expressions unfamiliar to Englishmen unfamiliar with hearing that such and such a person is a ‘mother fucker’ or a ‘pain in the arse’ (And yes my Editor is correct in that I am adding to text!) giving every man a military or other title. Pseudo –distinction is so widespread that in a single chapter, Martin three times hears that he is meeting ‘one of the most remarkable men in our country’: but this is an example of American excitability and overstatement- America is always ‘depressed’ always is stagnated, and always is in an alarming crisis-…the people are strangely devoid of individual traits of character- Well except for a sizable minority who are the most remarkable people in the country- this partly because of the national spiritual emptiness (A fascinating example of that is the Mormon Church and the very sincere belief in things which are utterly absurd-Ed) partly because of the pressure of public opinion. All these points are made in the first American chapter …. ‘I am a Lover of Freedom-disappointed –That’s all’ Dickens wrote in 1842. This is not the republic I came to see. This is not the Republic of my imagination’ and elsewhere: ‘I tremble for a radical coming here, unless he is a radical on principle, by reason and reflection, and from a sense of right. I fear that if he were anything else, he would return home a Tory (English Conservative-Ed) I do fear the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty, will be dealt by this country, in the failure of its example to the earth’ In 2008 after President George W Bush had brought the world ‘The War of Terror’ based on a building collapsing in a pile of dust in New York city and an explosion outside the Pentagon in Washington. And then people were held in Guantanamo- So in 2008 a new Black African President swept into the White House with the intention of freeing those people …. 2014 In Todays Newspaper that they are still being held there! And worse when this is published within seconds a computer based in USA snaps it up- why… Well the USA-NSA feel duty bound to intercept and process everything happening in New Zealand –God knows why. Dickens said it. ‘The largest blow to freedom in human history would be dealt by USA claiming to have built their empire on ‘Freedom’ And I will give the last word to the chief judge of history; USA the way that you have judged and dealt with others is the way that you will be judged and dealt with-Matthew 7:2 Be Afraid!