Organic Clown Chaos

It's starting to feel like Britain has reactivated organic clown chaos. This sounds bad - if the phrase even makes any sense xD - however I think it's a good thing.

During the endless Brexit saga we had this 'clownish' situation in Britain that looked like total political chaos. Leading to a constant refrain from people that went something along these lines:

"Britain is an embarrassment, what must the rest of the world think of us?!" *shocked and angry face*

Essentially the observation that there was no leadership, no organisation, no common purpose ..and that this was a bad thing.

(A clown country; how Britain's

detractors view Britain)

As I've noted on here before though. Britain, with our very old democracy and our vague, but deep rooted notions of individual liberty, don't operate (or suit) a fully top down system. Things happen more organically here. There are lots of voices. Lots of chitchat. In fact, I can hear the birds in the trees chattering away as I type this, which might be a good analogy. It's noisy. We kind of work things out through a massive family discussion. Often quite a heated one.

I've compared it to the digestive system digesting food before. We digest political crises. It looks messy, but something's going on. There's a process, but it's too nebulous for any one person to fully understand it. The election just gone is a good example. We had three years of "chaos" following the Brexit referendum, but we eventually reached a point where we'd discerned the will of the nation and a direction forward. For all the "chaos" there was no violence or riots during that period. It was all quite peaceful - much more peaceful than in many "less chaotic" countries. It's a good, and very natural system. At least in my opinion.

Now it seems we're back in full clown mode. We've had this politicised flu virus thrown at us. Through no real fault of our own. Lo and behold we now also have the EU offering another "two year extension" to the transition period. So we have another huge crisis on our doorstep.

We've taken our time to get to grips with all this, but it feels like we're finally beginning to click back into gear. This lock down has went completely against our normal instincts. We're "doing so badly" because this isn't really our natural game. We're suffering because of this, and will no doubt continue to suffer. It's hard to say what will happen next, but the fact that we seem to be re-entering the kind of vibrancy that we saw during the Brexit saga gives me hope. Perhaps if the world continues heading towards "organised" totalitarianism people in other countries might start seeing some of the benefits of our more organic "clown" approach.