The "famine" that "never really was one" - is coming again
I am afraid to share the recent Ukrainian war video testimonies because this is an American corporation platform. So I resort to art. Art encapsulate the horrors best.
The Great Famine (Irish: an Gorta Mór), also known as the Great Hunger, the Famine (mostly within Ireland) or the Irish Potato Famine (mostly outside Ireland), was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852.
The famine and its effects permanently changed Ireland's demographic, political, and cultural landscape, producing an estimated 2 million refugees and spurring a century-long population decline.
Okay, I want to talk about Ireland. Specifically I want to talk about the "famine". About the fact that there never really was one. There was no "famine".
See, Irish people were only allowed to eat potatoes, all of the other food, Meat, fish, vegetables, were shipped out of the country under armed guard to England, while the Irish people starved.
And then on the middle of all this... They gave us money not to teach our children Irish. And so we lost our history.
And this is what I think is still hurting me... See we're like a child that's been battered, has to drive itself out of it's head because it's frightened.
Still feels all the painful feelings, but they lose contact with the memory.
And this leads to massive self-destruction like alcoholism, drug addiction, all desperate attempts at running... And in it's worst form it becomes actual killing.
And if there ever is gonna be healing, there has to be remembering, and then grieving, so that there then can be forgiving, there has to be knowledge and understanding!!!
An American army regulation says you mustn't kill more than 10% of a nation, because to do so causes permanent "psychological damage". It's not permanent but they didn't know that!
Anyway during the supposed "famine" we lost a lot more than 10% of a nation through deaths on land or on ships of emigration.
But what finally broke us was not starvation, but it's use in the controlling of our education. Schools go on about "Black 47", on and on about "The terrible "famine"", but what they don't say is in truth - that here really never was one!!! So let's take a look shall we? The highest statistics of child abuse in the EEC! End we say we're a Christian country, but we've lost contact with our history.
See we used to worship God as a mother, we're suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.
Look at all our old men in the pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.
We used to worship God as a mother. Now look at what we're doing to each other!
We've even made killers of ourselves! The most child-like trusting people in the Universe. And this is what's wrong with us.
Our history books the parent figure lied to us. I see the Irish as a race, like a child that got itself bashed in the face.
And if there ever is gonna be healing, there has to be remembering, and then grieving, so that there then can be forgiving, there has to be knowledge and understanding!!!
The "famine" that "never really was one" - is coming again