Over the years since my birth, my background has been carefully manipulated through living in an environment of oppression, deception, desperation, futility and finally of isolation to produce a round cog for a square hole. Me.
Before I could make proper sense of what was happening, I was already pigeon-holed, pegged and posted and with a wry smile warned to stop asking questions. I consequently realised that there was something drastically wrong, not just with me, but with the administration of the world that I was living in – and particularly with the attitude of many of its people.
After a bit of travelling, I discovered that most other countries in the world had the same basic problem and often much worse. My degree is mostly in Communication Design and Occupational Therapy achieved at East London University in 1984 and at Imperial College in 1986. My vocational successes range from founding several London pub fringe theatres, directing some plays and films, to being a founder member of the Social Democratic Party all in the 1980’s. Was Chairman of a Trade Union branch for a while in the 1990’s and despite being hard working, knowledgeable, highly intelligent, honest, fair minded and clear thinking, I inevitably spent most of my adult life pondering my future and living in relative poverty along with most of its trashy trimmings as a wry reward presumably in order to experience the desperation that many people feel through the injustices of current party political life.
During this time, I wrote many theatrical scripts and screenplays which seem to have consistently been plagiarised to some extent, from time to time, and so I gradually stopped writing. Mysteriously so gradually did the plagiarism. I finally began describing the Ideal State of Being in the mid 1990’s, half in the hope and expectation that I might be plagiarised once again and not be obliged to have to write the book which shows how the current political system of assembly representation may be replaced by the administration of freedom & obligation, benefit & duty – but above all by genuine virtue - achieved through level Citizenship and e-democratic means.
No one seems to have plagiarised me so far and so writing this booklet is either complete nonsense, or a taster of a better description of the Ideal State and its basic human element, the genuine good and virtuous citizen, which will hopefully be available shortly.
Adrian Thurston