“Delirium primarily involves alterations of attention and is characterized by a fluctuating course, difficulty with concentration, and altered mental status. Tremens refers to the tremors seen in patients with delirium tremens.” Shall I say DT instead of Donald Trump from now on?

It happens around the third day a person is deprived of (or chooses to go without) their chosen comforter. A few generations ago, the ultimate source of all that was the big beard in the sky. More recently, it was the television, and all that work the BBC and others did to persuade you big men were in charge and things were trundling along, laughably badly perhaps, but as the same time, okay. Lately, it’s been social media.

Recently, we’ve become a deeply divided nation. I’m not talking about Brexit or whether you really had to ‘vote Starmer to get the Tories out’.

I’m talking about those who went on following the BBC (or similar MSN) version of what matters, and on the other side, those who found, via Tiktok and other sources, a new narrative. A narrative in which our country’s government is the little helper of the US, that’s running mad, and rules the world with its guns and bombs, is repeatedly killing whole peoples to hang onto its empire, and yet is beginning to fail.

The BBC group spent the last few days watching the Trump inauguration in a state of quite severe trauma, seeing it as the end of any kind of comfort. The others probably noticed this article about what’s really causing the DTs.

the DTs are not an illness. They are a sign of recovery (so long as they don’t kill you). That does not, of course, mean that Trump’s not a severe danger to a lot of people and places…

Yes, Trump is severely dangerous for anyone his world touches, as is Keir Starmer, and any other politician who continues to work for the comfort of a few billionaires, whilst allowing climate crisis to spin us ever nearer to oblivion.

Many of us have been fretting (in quiet moments) about the time we haven’t had to campaign about the severe wrongs Starmer’s government is doing – you know, selling off the NHS, austerity, energy bills etc, because we’ve been following this story…

… we note that Israel delayed the ceasefire, and has not ceased firing, even in Gaza, let alone the West Bank that the BBC comfort-machine has been more or less ignoring. We note that, as the new party for the left approaches its official launch, the police were reduced to blatant, obvious public lying in order to try and arrest Jeremy Corbyn (Starmer’s obsession re ‘the left’). We note that a lot of commentators from first, third and every other world, are talking about ‘the end of the US empire’.

It’s the end of the empire of states, anyway. Just look at this for an unholy alliance:

… and look at the headlines.

Odd, I thought, that the names in the headlines don’t include Apple’s Tim Cook, and Google’s Sundar Pichai. One might say ‘phew, the real rulers of the world have come together to help steer the madman’… Or one might remember the revolving door that existed between Google and the White House in the days after “9/11”, when the “war on terror” made everyone stand out of the way of the expert information-gatherers as they searched the world for danger.

Did you know that when the music stopped, several former Google execs were working full time for Obama’s government, and several former government people were ensconced permanently in Silicon Valley? Do we have a clue there who really runs the world?

If you’d like it clearer, try this book. It’s epic length, but the first couple of chapters is enough.

What are the people suffering from the DTs going to do, decamp to Bluesky? Well yes, I might go there at some point but don’t forget it was set up by a former TwitX person – or that if anything in this whole wide world gets really successful, it’ll end up belonging to one of the tech billionaires.

Personally, I’d advise taking as much of your life as you can offline. I don’t mean don’t ever switch your computer (or phone) on – but the precious stuff now, and the precious contacts, are offline. Do you know where you can find your friends or work or political contacts when the internet’s down? If not, find out.

There is hope you know. Those tech billionaires spend a lot of money trying to make themselves look like some kinds of geniuses but they’re not really that clever – you do know that, don’t you? If they were really clever, they would not be sending up space rockets, or building underground homes that they think will keep them safe for ‘afterwards’, instead of seriously trying to save us all.

Even if you believed (at some desperate level) in the law, the police, the government, clever people who really run things, etc etc until yesterday, take comfort – the DTs wear off after a few days. Go for a walk, have a chat with someone interesting. Clever is humans sitting together in cafes, in community centres, on the beach or in the kitchen, in the woods or on a bench in town, listening to each other, trying to understand things and figuring out what they can change, and how.

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