Twenty-seven.

Usually I'm at ease for breakfast with Camino hosts, but the last two have made me feel it's all about getting some money, so I've failed to interact properly with them. The last two families were clearly pensioners and the both wanted to guillotine Macron and I can hardly blame them if the situation in France is so bad? The general feeling is that the lower and middle bracket are being squeezed for the top level: is France heavily in debt and are the bankers wanting their money? How do bankers get politician over a barrel continually. Politics must surely be a sham: democracy is a means of keeping us rabble at bay, but it is not us who is rabid. History is said to repeat itself or come in cycles: and the paradigm shift is usually the result of something massive i.e. war, famine, disease, plague ... Global warming. The birth of the internet age is surely where the public, the unseen masses, have more voice? YouTube, Instagram, social media, etc, has give a voice to the unrepresented and we're at a tipping point. Direct democracy is actually possible in the modern world. Representatives are pointless and driven by their own greed for power, money and control. For once it could truly be up the people. All these motions in the House of Commons could quite easily be decided by the populace, whether educated or not, classed or not, as true individuals. The modern world must keep modernising. So I will leave these pensioners behind and hope for a more youthful and vigorous person tonight, although on this Cult of Death road I'm not so sure the young care where their mortality is taking them?