Monday, 8 August 2011
Alas poor London
It seems Nero-ish to report on our good life while London burns; to quote John McDonnell MP 'Reaping what has been sown over 3 decades of creating grotesquely unequal society, with alienated young copying ethos of looting bankers'. Naturally Bob and I send our love and thoughts to our friends who remain there.
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It would have been more accurate and appropriate had he compared the thieves to the Parliamentarians fiddling their expenses rather than the clichéd soft target Bankers.
In fact this highlights an old trick of power systems to avoid any accountability: splitting what essentially is meaningless in its parts as if they were independent domains. The collusion consists in fact paradoxically in the denial of the relation. In the middle ages Church and Emperor already used the same collusive separation trick. The "religious fervor" of economic orthodox fundamentalists is not new under the sun. I am sure that most neo-classical economists have not read and surely not understood Adam Smith, who was in fact an ethicist. Politics and economy deal with values in society. This is tricky: much more interesting to the elites is power without responsibility, another definition of corruption. But corruption is an ethical term, neither politic nor economic.
(lifted from a message from a friend because it seemed as apposite - thanks, Luc, hope you dont mind)
Heard on UK TV recently: "Your plan's not just falling apart, it is
> being ripped to sheds by giant frogs "
> Oh the glories of UK television.
(this lifted from Jim - LOL)
Is Luc pontificating on Orwell's 1984?
Roll on 2012 and the inevitable demise of every and any thing. Are frogs lizards?
ooooh demising every and any thing seems a bit harsh. But roll on 2012 indeed, green giant lizards ahoy:) Maybe with frogs? No doubt we shall be told -
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