40 Shades of Mediocrity

Underground Rail System for Dublin, or Drag Queen Storytime in Westport? We all know the answer to that one...

The year was 1973 and the Young Scientists Exhibition took place inside the Main Hall of the RDS in Dublin. The big talking point was the display stand, by the then state public transport operator CIE and their announcement of an underground rail link for Dublin that would connect the city with Dublin Airport and also reduce the chronic traffic issues in the city.

Half a century later, despite being re-announced and re-branded as MetroNorth and now MetroLink, with billions spent on consultants and fancy CGI cartoons, not a single centimeter of tunnel construction has occurred. Dublin is still a traffic nightmare.

Why would it get built? Better to keep them in their cars commuting back and forth three hours a day listening to the state-sanctioned mainstream journalists fawning over politicians. The longer your commute: the more intensive your brainwashing is via the Clinton Foundation-trained spooks on RTE, Newstalk, as well as every other Irish radio station and news outlet.

Irish politicians have more pressing matters than building badly needed infrastructure. Such as funding NGOs, along with perhaps the most colossal and lavishly-funded civil service/bureaucratic machine in the Western World.

Funded in countless billions of Euro in order to build a psychic infrastructure. So as to burrow a tunnel deep into the consciousness of the Irish people and therefore demolish their sense of self in order to speed the Globalist agenda through every city and town in this nation. While the Swiss tunnel through the Alps (yet again), the Norwegians and Danes build undersea road and rail tunnels, Irish politicians embark on such national mega-projects as keeping a bookshop in Westport opened so a middle-aged man in a frock can traumatize pre-school children more effectively than the original Grimm’s Fairytales ever could.

I shall forgo the current circus performance at the state broadcaster RTE, as this will almost certainly result in nothing that will provide the Telly Tithe payers with greatly improved public broadcasting. The end result will be something more akin to a Rastafarian Bosco discussing Climate Change and Black Lives Matter. In our hearts, we all know that this will be the final outcome.

Naturally, none of this would be acceptable in a nation where the general public has high standards, or even basic levels, of national aspiration above that of paralyzing mediocrity. The Irish are the world leaders in mediocrity. The completely bizarre welcome home party for the Irish Women’s Soccer Team after coming last in the recent World Cup sums that one up. From Irish Love Island contestants being welcomed at Dublin Airport (the only major airport in Europe without a direct rail link BTW) as national heroes, to Z-list UK celebs being treated like the second coming, it remains a constant. To quote William Butler Years. “You have disgraced yourselves yet again.”

This Irish Mediocrity fetish was beautifully summed up recently by my friend Stephen Sutton when he stated, regarding the recently deposed host of the Late Late Show:

However, we were not always a joke of a people…

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Pagan Anarchist Thomas Sheridan is an Author, Artist, Film Maker, and Satirist who has spent a life from Wall Street to the Jungles of South Asia attempting to discover the emerging—often elusive—mythology of modern humans within the present technology-saturated era. Heavily inspired by the work of Carl Jung, Bruno Bettelheim, and Joseph Campbell, Thomas Sheridan has developed ‘Monomythic’ tool kits—which draw upon all the mythologies of the world. So as to demonstrate that on a personal and collective level; these legends and stories contain within them a subconscious lexicon of wisdom and symbols that can help all of us overcome the personal and greater challenges we encounter in everyday life. By not giving birth and nurturing these timeless archetypes within us all, modern humans are at a loss when it comes to achieving personal and social Individuation. Or a rounding out of one’s purpose in life. Their dharma. Their Monomyth. Inside all of us resides a wizard, a warrior, a bard, and a knight and by tapping into the power of these archetypes one can have a more fulfilling and creative life. Every challenge a quest. Every situation a saga. Every moment is an adventure.

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