The people in charge of our country are not fit to lead. Since the middle of the 20th century society has ignored the fundamental truths of reality. In the past 30-years this attack on the basic rules of life has become evermore extreme and destructive.
From a ‘women can have a penis’, to the ‘diversity is our strength’ mantra, reality has been turned on it’s head. Only last week, the Home Office published a booklet telling illegal immigrant that it is a crime to rape women and to have sex with children. In Germany – which is afflicted with the same madness – the state produced posters and street signs showing a crossed-out figure squatting in the street defecating.
Rudyard Kipling is one of the best-known of the late Victorian poets and story-tellers. His most famous work was The Jungle Book, which he wrote in 1895. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was a champion of the working class and distrusted democracy. He declined awards offered him by his own government, yet accepted others from foreign nations.
Kipling was attacked for being ‘a colonialist, a jingoist, a racist, an anti-Semite, a misogynist, a right-wing imperialist warmonger’. In October 1919 he published the poem “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”. Now largely forgotten, copybook headings consisted of concise phrases that teachers inscribed at the top of a paper. Students would copy these sentences repeatedly to refine their handwriting. Generally, these phrases expressed timeless wisdom about life.
The poem’s central idea is: Human nature and the basic rules of life do not change. If people ignore common sense and reality, they eventually suffer the consequences. He contrasts them with fashionable ideas and political promises that claim people can escape these realities. Throughout history, he says, people keep believing unrealistic promises – such as the idea that everyone can have wealth, peace, or success without effort or sacrifice.
According to Kipling, whenever society ignores basic truths, reality eventually catches up and causes problems. The “Gods of the Copybook Headings” then return to remind people of the consequences.
ABOUT THE VIDEO – Text from Epochalypse (taken from his YouTube channel).
The Gods of the Copybook Headings is a famous 1919 dystopian and philosophical poem by Rudyard Kipling, criticising utopian progressivism by warning of disastrous consequences when society ignores the fundamental truths of reality. The poem argues that society is continually seduced by the “Gods of the Market Place”.
Amelia guides a young, naïve girl through a surreal world shaped by Rudyard Kipling’s The Gods of the Copybook Headings. Together they journey across landscapes where comforting illusions collide with difficult truths, and where the ancient Gods of the Copybook Headings patiently wait for humanity to rediscover lessons it keeps forgetting.
As paper storms rage, forgotten words take physical form, and impossible beings emerge from the margins of history, the young girl is forced to confront timeless realities about honesty, responsibility, sacrifice, and consequence. Amelia serves as her guide through a realm where every shortcut has a price and every comforting lie eventually meets reality.
This visual adaptation transforms Kipling’s famous poem into a dreamlike fantasy adventure, exploring why some truths endure no matter how often societies attempt to ignore them.
Amelia is a fictional, purple-haired teenage character from Pathways, a UK counter-extremism educational online game. Following the massive viral spread and public backlash over the game framing mainstream political dissent and curiosity as extremism, the Pathways game was taken offline.
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Main Image: YouTube.
Video: Epochalypse on YouTube
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