The hot sun seems like the fire of hell on earth
And London is a sinful place we know~
What monster will this horror bring to birth?
Well, the government will pay for what it’s worth
We’ll send them on a ramble down Soho
The hot sun seems like the fire of hell on earth
England is now visited by death
A baby thrown from Towers of Camelot
What rough beast will this horror bring to birth?
The good will die, the evil have them cursed
What will follow on from this horror?
The hot sun seems like the fire of hell on earth
Is life a generous gift we are not worth?
We have no ethics, love, we have no courage
What rough beast will this horror bring to birth?
We used to feel that through our life we grow
We’d leave seeds for someone else to sow
The hot sun seems like the fire of hell on earth
What monster will this evil bring to birth?
Psychoanalysts contend that things are much more complicated. For one thing, psychological pain needs first not to be eliminated but understood. From this perspective, depression is less like a tumour and more like a stabbing pain in your abdomen: it’s telling you something, and you need to find out what. (No responsible GP would just pump you with painkillers and send you home.) And happiness – if such a thing is even achievable – is a much murkier matter. We don’t really know our own minds, and we often have powerful motives for keeping things that way. We see life through the lens of our earliest relationships, though we usually don’t realise it; we want contradictory things; and change is slow and hard. Our conscious minds are tiny iceberg-tips on the dark ocean of the unconscious – and you can’t truly explore that ocean by means of CBT’s simple, standardised, science-tested steps.
This viewpoint has much romantic appeal. But the analysts’ arguments fell on deaf ears so long as experiment after experiment seemed to confirm the superiority of CBT – which helps explain the shocked response to a study, published last May, that seemed to show CBT getting less and less effective, as a treatment for depression, over time.
Examining scores of earlier experimental trials, two researchers from Norway concluded that its effect size – a technical measure of its usefulness – had fallen by half since 1977. (In the unlikely event that this trend were to persist, it could be entirely useless in a few decades.) Had CBT somehow benefited from a kind of placebo effect all along, effective only so long as people believed it was a miracle cure?
The British state is cracking, I perceive
The government is full of idle fools
The people here are lied to and deceived
You can’t keep hurting the poor and those in need
There is a point where chaos over-rules
The British state is cracking, I perceive
We know that some economists believe
To tax the wealthy is extremely cruel
The people here are lied to and deceived
Thatcher said the wealth would trickle through
The cult of economics is derived
From axioms sent by sharks who never grieve
The British state is cracking, I perceive
The bias goes against those who can’t plead
But Grenfell Tower broke all the frigging rules~
The people there have died because deceived
The crack will escalate and thunder roll
Theresa May has made her first & last own goal
The British state is cracking, I perceive
The people here once passive , roar displeased
Now it was while they were on the way that the report came to David, saying, “Absalom has struck down all the king’s sons, and not one of them is left.” Then the king arose, tore his clothes and lay on the ground; and all his servants were standing by with clothes torn.
As London weeps Theresa May begins the talks about us leaving the EU.
The Tories have given us 7 years of austerity but who has suffered most from this?
The poor, the old, the refugees, the unemployed, the disabled.
A man with terminal cancer was labelled fit for work
All but the rich tremble