Oh I’ve got a thousand of these https://twitter.com/crankyfed/status/1388230829999075329

too many people: too few trees

Ban cars

Men should not wear shorts outside of exercise, gardening or lounging on the beach. Put some trousers on you overgrown man-babies

Denim is not a material that should exist, let alone clothe your body

All food should be organic

Those who grow leylandii should lose a hand

We need to normalise girls not wearing make up - it’s great but like ladies should be able to take a break

Pot makes you lazy, boring, smelly and fucks with your brain chemistry. Weed stops you having dreams there is no way that’s a good thing. If your drugs don’t make you see cool shit what’s the point?

Nightclubs are mainly pure shit and should all be replaced with places that have live bands and you can sit and chat in between dancing

Young people don’t show enough respect to their elders

Boomers are mainly useless and self indulgent and have wrecked the lives of future generations through their collective self indulgence and individualism

Children should be taught folk and ballroom dancing, as well as classic nursery rhymes, songs and children’s games

Tweet 13: people who only engage in popular culture are deficient, and our political leaders are far too low brow

People should dress up for church, smart causal should be the floor not the ceiling

Casual relationships are objectively less good than romantic love, are a bad idea, and should be discouraged rather than celebrated

Working with your hands = working with your mind > doing spreadsheets etc

No true justice without mercy, no true mercy without justice

Romanticism and hagiography are good and socially and morally necessary, cynicism is a cancer

Pacifism as an ideology (rather than an individual choice or calling) is ultimately immoral

Materialism and consumerism should be regarded as sinful and socially corrosive and restrained by both law and custom

Elitism is good if it's an elitism of character and skill nobly deployed for the good of all. Respecting those who have merit is a great virtue, as is the virtue of not being proud of one's good fortune. Both ruler and ruled need humility.

22: ugly buildings should be illegal, vernacular materials and design should be the norm, street patterns should be based on the pedestrian rather than the car.

RESTORE the abbeys RETVRN their lands, put abbots and abbesses back in the Lords

Pure residential/commercial zoning is bad, we need mixed zoning, I want to be able to smell fresh bread baking from down the street in the morning

US craft beers are mostly overrated and over-hopped, and have vile hipster branding. English real ales are much better

Many, perhaps even a majority, of white collar jobs shouldn't exist, at least in their current forms - marketing? HR? PR? - no no and no

27: passion of every kind is largely censored and stigmatised in the modern world, and is then packaged and sold back to us in synthetic forms - drugs, booze, music videos, dating apps, porn etc.

Modern beauty standards either obscenely distort our standards into "kinks" (i.e. pretending obesity is attractive) or flatten them into characterlessness (i.e. Instagram models who all look identical). We've lost our sense of the desirability of normal human bodies.

Therapy and counselling are hugely important activities that we inexplicably trust to individuals who frequently rely on dodgy pseudo science and the myth of objectivity. Much of what they do is inadequately replace the friends, mentors and spiritual advisors people now lack.

Dogs are good but are not city pets sorry

The NHS is overrated

Hunting is good, but much of the hunting industry is bad and needs to become environmentalist and locally managed in a sustainable way

33: Jesus was not a hippie, he was not a Palestinian, he was not an immigrant (he was internally displaced as a baby), he got angry and judged people often, and most importantly he is God incarnate

It’s legitimate to not want or feel equipped to have children of your own, but there’s something wrong with people who can’t see the appeal and value of having children, and the growth of the ‘childfree’ mindset is sinister and nihilistic and should be utterly stigmatised.

Pornography should be banned as far as possible, it at once titillates and neuters, and hurts relationships

Casinos, online gambling and betting machines should all be completely banned, but a flutter on the horses or poker with friends is fine

Life is a veil of tears which is why the true source of happiness is not pleasure maximisation, or carpe diem, but rather a deep moral and aesthetic consistency whereby all of life good and bad is made sense of and lived honourably and well.

There is no such thing as ‘taxpayer’s money’ and think about that principle for a moment - it would give rich people more of a moral claim on the resources of the state. It’s public money guys, PUBLIC MONEY it belongs to the commons, it is not a loan, it is not your money anymore

Chivalry is an uncomplicatedly good thing and is a far better practice for advancing the equal dignity and status of women than is the horror show known as ‘male feminism’

40: we need a 50 year moratorium on superhero films, as that’s how long it will be before I ever want to see another one

Self-actualisation, finding your bliss, all that crap is utterly worthless hot air that will make you miserable. The only thing worth having in this world is a life in service of others, and in fidelity towards those who love you.

Meritocracy, objectivity, procedural fairness is all an illusion, a grand lie. Work entirely on the basis of friendship and fraternal loyalty, that’s the only way anything meaningful is ever accomplished. But choose your friends on the basic of character, not self interest.

Teenagerhood is made-up, there are children, and there are young adults, and we need proper rites of passage. Everything about 'teen' culture is awful and cringe and invented by awful cynical capitalists, we should abolish the whole wretched business.

Endnotes are a scourge, give me footnotes or give me death

I think we should ban Facebook, but not, surprisingly, TikTok. It's fine.

American sports are incredibly boring to watch, of course football is also fairly tedious if you take away the tribal loyalties. The only really engrossing team games to follow are rugby and cricket.

47: Breakfast is the best meal