"Croeso i ddyfnderoedd fy isymwybod: Welcome to the depths of my subconscious. Shark Fishing in Wales is one man's odyssey to understand the land of his birth through anecdote, observation and reminiscence! By learning about his country, perhaps he can learn more about himself. A process of individuation which Carl Jung suggests we should all go through. Less assuming one nationhood and more working towards one nationhood before we become Independent." Daf Williams
Cymru/Wales: Bipolar Nation
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Thursday 26 January 2012
Sacred Cows
In exchange for a Television Licence/Money bartering system we allow numerous visual images to invade our grey cells. The Revolution may not be televised but war certainly is.
The TV Licencing HQ is in Bristol, and one quiet soulless morning in Grungetown I was disturbed by the Card carrying Feds.
"I don't have a TV Licence!"
" Is that a live feed to your computer?"
"Que?"
First and only visit in seven years. I'm surprised they don't come around every two weeks because they know that like narcotics, Television is extremely addictive.
Thankfully I am not addicted to S4C. You'd have to be desperate to be and this recent furore about not paying the TV licence because it was going to get less funding and being taken under the wings of the BBC. Now if I remember rightly it was the members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg and Gwynfor Evans's threat to fast to death that forced William Whitelaw's hand to set up the Fourth Channel in the first place. From my privileged perch of insanity it appears that many have done rather well from it. When this recent funding crisis hit again it was the young students of Cymdeithas yr Iaith who were out protesting. Where were the cast of Pobol Y Cwm, where were the celebs who have been getting fat paycheques from the UK Taxpayer. In my book, language is more important than making a fast buck. The worry is, that the Welsh Language is now in the hands of the Middle Class and these Pontcanna Triangle officianados know a thing or two about making money. No longer 'Llais y Werin' the ghettoisation of the language amongst a people that bare very little similarity to those who speak the language in its heartlands. Sell your soul to the devil, why don't you?
I've swopped my addiction from TV to Facebook, like when I was undiagnosed and self medicating my mood disorder, I swopped booze for cannabis. All these addictions will catch you out in the end.
Amongst the 'Sacred cows' of Wales, top amongst them must be the Assembly! The body that went in and confiscated the sacred cow from the Hindu temple in Carmarthenshire and is still intent on culling the badgers of Wales. A striking building in what is now referred to as the Bay. Well it was the Docks when I first lived and worked down there and where are the Mermaids in the cold and commercial Mermaid Quay? You can read about the Machinations of the Assembly in another sacred cow 'The Western Mail' which has been serving the people of the servile Principality for over a century. My beef (oops!) with both the Western Mail and Wales Today is that they dumb everything down. They pander to the Anglo/American Obsession with celebrity culture which again is just another displacement activity for not thinking about death and your own mortality.
So I have criticised the Assembly and the Western Mail and then you have the Welsh National Health Service also known by its other name The Welsh Rugby Union. These are Committee Men in shiny blazers who control the saline drip and the bright red blood supply of the biggest circus in town. The six nations is about to get underway and the cold, unwelcoming concrete pavements of Kairdiff will welcome the Match Day Nationalists, more concerned with raising the share value of Brains Brewery and singing 'My Hen laid a Haddock'. Sacred cows a plenty in Wales and I have just swiped a muddy hand across their brow. I don't suppose they have done anything personally to me..yet, but they are there and just like any self respecting Goliaths, they must have their Dafydd.
The fact is, the poet does not want admiration, he wants to be believed.
— Jean Cocteau Quotes (@CocteauQuotes) September 21, 2020
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