Out Of Ideas

[poliphilo]

Our politicians are clean out of ideas. The overarching ideology of the past half-century- freemarket capitalism- is collapsing around us,  its historic opponent- state socialism- collapsed decades ago and there don't seem to be any alternatives. The politicians, bereft of ideology- are reduced to managing the mess. That's why I don't hate them the way I hated their immediate predecessors. You can hate a man with ideas. His ideas make him loom bigger than himself. Tony Blair, as frontman for neo-conservatism- the last and feeblest ideology of the 20th century- had a sort of nasty, glittery grandeur.  His successor, Gordon Brown, is  just a hapless human being, floundering about in the shambles he helped create. There's nothing there to hate- no big idea to oppose or disprove. You can point at the incompetence, the corruption, the dishonesty, but you know in your heart that that's just the human condition- and you can expect exactly the same sort of muddle from the next person to take the job.

Big ideas lead to big crimes. Countless millions of people died in the last century because politicians got big ideas in their heads. Distasteful as they may be, I think we're better off with our current crop of scuttling, empty-headed managers.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Au contraire Blackadder. The big idea to watch out for is one-world government. Look out for it in speeches (Brown mentioning New World Order after the G20), see it in the beginnings of a new world currency (IMF stuff). Read up about the Fabian Society, created to usher in world government by stealth. Look up the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission. I believe a welfare state always will lead to a totalitarian state. How about all these new laws - no photographing the police, internet, email and phone records to be stored and analysed, 60,000 government informers to be trained up, posters enouraging people to watch out for and report on "terrorist" activities. The UK, and the world at large is turning into a socialist nightmare. The G20 was a showbiz spectacular where all the participants pretended to disagree, then came together and suddenly all agreed in 3 hours and they've somehow saved the planet. Yeah right.
Pretty soon everything we do will be prescribed, and everything else will be forbidden.
As for Gordon Brown being hapless, I don't think so. He's an intelligent and powerful man, he wouldn't have manouvered the country into this position unless he wanted it to be there. Nothing is done by mistake. He's probably debasing Sterling to a point where we "have" to get into a world currency, and Obama will do the same with the Dollar.
Tom F

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCUXzY9Uzo
quick intro to the Fabian Society