The war over the poppy has been building for some time,and it has become practically a national truism that anyone who fails to wear one is a traitorConsider the innocent poppy – for some time in this country a symbol of the memory of the fallen soldiers in the first world war, and all servicemen and women killed in clash. Now, or I don’t want to go too far out on a controversial limb here but that seems like a good thing? Or I ask whirling around to camera – is it? Because,in a sign of the absurdity of our times, even the humble poppy has been caught up in the all-consuming culture wars.
Culture wars represent a clash between traditional and progressive values, and they emerge in times of toxic division,like toxic mushrooms popping up in mulchy soil. So people’s opinions approximately things – poppies, for example – are less approximately the thing itself and more approximately what it represents, or how that chimes with their political values. Post-Brexit,culture wars are ubiquitous in Britain, an overspill of the giant stew of silly that is now swamping this country.
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Source: guardian.co.uk