Precapitalist conceptions. The Irish businessman

Protestant shopkeepers have been traditionally viewed as a curse on humanity by Northern Catholics because they discriminated in employment against Catholic job applicants. In the view of the common man, while  "polished"  they are interested solely in money.

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"I'll gather all my friends around me and I won't heed any mention of politics or socialism"

A lot of Catholic shopkeepers of the Provo variety expect to make a quick killing by one means or other. (Some will stoop to any low to get their own back on someone who points out that they are hucksters selling overpriced and out-of-date goods.)

 A Catholic businessman is brought up to carefully husband scarce resources.

A Protestant tradesman and shop assistant discounts his own labour to give his customers a better deal and a better return on money spent in his master's shop. 

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As often as not,a Catholic ghetto shopkeeper will deduct the price of a few bottles of beer to have you beaten up by a licensed thug such as Gerry Keenan if he dislikes you. A Protestant hostelry is little different. Since this ministration always comes from the hated proprietor or owner of the establishment,heed the barman's warning when he tells you to drink up and go and be vigilant outside.

Beware of those such as adventurer- businessmen. They are always linked to politicians in the North of Ireland. Those businessmen chart a course into unknown territory for you and family members when you look too closely into their business affairs.

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The outwardly naive rural shopholder is anxious to network i.e. to exploit his circle of acquaintances and those of whom he has only a passing knowledge. In this vile manner,he is "like a Scotsman on the make". He is a greedy,errant fool who still flourishes in the North of Ireland because of unschooled people. In the South,a man "on his way up" is ignored and the Germans were the first to see through the cloying familiarity of the small businessman and his desire "to get ahead."

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The outcome of the defeat of Nazism was widespread opposition to the small shopkeeper and independent proprietor or tradesman who had dragged Germany into its nightmare and awful cycle of destruction.

This apostate in his Irish guise is someone lost in the Middle Ages.

How to speak to him or to anyone who spouts outdated nonsense and how to speak to his fellow travellers,the people who bang doors outside their neighbours houses?

While 'these things are sent to try us',it is better to just say "Hello!" and leave it at that. Ignore the door-bangers if you can and if their activities do not form a concerted pattern as they did in my case. They will soon die by heart attacks or strokes brought on by biokinetic shock e.g.'Kevin Beattie' ('Wee' Joe Mallon) in my case,Rosemary Deane,Elizabeth Mc Laughlin and Eddie O Connor.