The lockdown and those tweets make me think of Jimmy.

Jimmy and Alienation

It makes me wonder if @BetteMidler has ever read Jimmy Reid's Rectorial Address

"Let me right at the outset define what I mean by alienation. It is the cry of men who feel themselves the victims of blind economic forces beyond their control."

How alienated are the folk being told they *have* t go back to work, to face a deadly virus cos some Have wants a posh meal, another profit hey can use to buy another friggin yacht?

How alienated are the middle class women arguing like desperate wretches as they try to justify why some poor woman should get on a bus, face a deadly virus and arrive in the middle class home to lift filthy knickers and wash filthy toilets?

How alienated their scared cleaners?

"It's the frustration of ordinary people excluded from the processes of decision-making. The feeling of despair and hopelessness that pervades people who feel with justification that they have no real say in shaping or determining their own destinies."

Posh brats sitting on the telly demanding the school teachers take care of kids (attend to their emotional needs of kids whose parents are forced to go sit on buses) rather than actually educate em..... how alienated are they as they frantically plead for more profits?

"Society and its prevailing sense of values leads to another form of alienation. It alienates some from humanity. It partially de-humanises some people, makes them insensitive, ruthless in their handling of fellow human beings, self-centred and grasping."

"The irony is, they are often considered normal and well-adjusted. It is my sincere contention that anyone who can be totally adjusted to our society is in greater need of psychiatric analysis and treatment than anyone else."

"They remind me of the character in the novel, Catch 22, the father of Major Major. He was a farmer in the American Mid-West. He hated suggestions for things like medi-care, social services, unemployment benefits or civil rights."

"He was, however, an enthusiast for the agricultural policies that paid farmers for not bringing their fields under cultivation. From the money he got for not growing alfalfa he bought more land in order not to grow alfalfa. He became rich."

"Pilgrims came from all over the state to sit at his feet and learn how to be a successful non-grower of alfalfa."

"His philosophy was simple. The poor didn't work hard enough and so they were poor. He believed that the good Lord gave him two strong hands to grab as much as he could for himself. He is a comic figure."

"But think – have you not met his like here in Britain? Here in Scotland? I have."

They're still here... even during a pandemic, demanding more and more... no matter how many of our lives are lost.