I've been looking at all the dark despair that Brown and all the other cynics have wrought on the common man - just look at our blogs, people and the gloomy, resigned, "yet another dagger thrust for democracy" mood which permeates.
Are we happy with things? Do we think a change of party political government will greatly alter that? We have been reduced to their agenda and I, for one, don't dance to their dirge.
What happened to joy? What happened to enthusiasm? What happened to idealism? Did we set these things aside as a man sets aside the things of youth?
So I won't play Mr. Brown's and his masters' game. By way of analogy, in football, when the other side is ahead then the opposition is always reactive and playing "catch up football". They are not setting the agenda themselves.
We have abandoned our code for hope. If we put aside the grubby, greedy, bankrupt sexual and moral relativism and just get back to first principles on how to deal with one another, then the oxygen which fuels Brown and cronies would dry up.
We have a far greater chance by being buoyant rather than depressed, simply each one refusing to go along with the new oppressive agenda but we don't have faith in ourselves and each other, do we? We shake our heads and say James, James, such an idealist from a better time which never existed.
I like the quote yesterday that four fifths of the idealism is guff but it still doesn't alter the idea as a governing notion for life. So instead of wandering around like lost sheep which we saw yesterday at one of my regular blogfriends - we both went in and looked at her blog, doing things which are unworthy, we should get on with the purer things and just enjoy them.
And those of us of a "certain age"? Anything is possible at any time, my colleagues - it's all in the mindset.
Are we happy with things? Do we think a change of party political government will greatly alter that? We have been reduced to their agenda and I, for one, don't dance to their dirge.
What happened to joy? What happened to enthusiasm? What happened to idealism? Did we set these things aside as a man sets aside the things of youth?
Invariably the injection of youthful idealism has been to the benefit of our democracy and made the rest of the nation sit up and think.
So I won't play Mr. Brown's and his masters' game. By way of analogy, in football, when the other side is ahead then the opposition is always reactive and playing "catch up football". They are not setting the agenda themselves.
We have abandoned our code for hope. If we put aside the grubby, greedy, bankrupt sexual and moral relativism and just get back to first principles on how to deal with one another, then the oxygen which fuels Brown and cronies would dry up.
We have a far greater chance by being buoyant rather than depressed, simply each one refusing to go along with the new oppressive agenda but we don't have faith in ourselves and each other, do we? We shake our heads and say James, James, such an idealist from a better time which never existed.
I like the quote yesterday that four fifths of the idealism is guff but it still doesn't alter the idea as a governing notion for life. So instead of wandering around like lost sheep which we saw yesterday at one of my regular blogfriends - we both went in and looked at her blog, doing things which are unworthy, we should get on with the purer things and just enjoy them.
And those of us of a "certain age"? Anything is possible at any time, my colleagues - it's all in the mindset.
As a friend always says to me, anything is possible, nothing is set in concrete.
ReplyDeleteVery good James, BUT
ReplyDeleteWell, yes, you expected a "but", and it's a big one.
brown and his ilk own the reins, and it's the same with whatever party you name, they all hump at the same trough.
Personal idealism is fine, so are fine words fine, but, the translation into real, interactive, and I mean real, life, relies on far more than fine words.
Entire societies expectations have to be altered. Entire society structure has to be altered. Entire ethos of illusionary progress has to be altered.
And all that takes far more than a personal conviction, and fine words. It has to spread virally, and there you run headlong into the structures set up for just that purpose, structures we've spent the last four? months dissecting and explaining.
And even all the detailed explanations given here, and other blogs, have they made much difference? Really?
I'll give you and example.
Earlier this week the BofE offered £5Bill. of liquidity to UK clearing banks to apply for. They applied for nearly £24Bill.
What does that tell you.
1) The BofE hasn't a fucking clue what is going on. They are so far behind the curve, they are still on the straight.
2)A couple of days later in early morning trade, shares of major UK clearing banks were hammered
3)Clearing Banks arrange an urgent meeting with the BofE to "clarify" the situation
4)A spokesperson for the clearing banks goes on national broadcasting to re-assure joe public that the banking system is robust, balance sheets are sound, and all the usual bollox.
5)Today in the major press, everyone is blaming "rogue traders" for hammering the banks.
Have you any idea how much money it takes to collectively "hammer" most major UK clearing banks? These were not rogue traders. They were sane investors who recognise over-valuations when they see them.
UK clearing banks do have a problem, otherwise why apply for £23 Bill, when £5 bill is on offer. Why are Libor rates so high? Could it be that the banks themselves won't lend over-night, because they don't trust the solvency, (ie the strength of the borrowing banks balance sheet, that is being trumpeted in press announcements to be "solid) of the counter party? Don't you think that that is monumentally significant?
So although they are not billed as crisis talks, the meeting with the clearing banks and the BofE is crisis, and the compliant press is once again a liar.
And here we come to another point. Most banks employ analcysts, oops, analysts, who dissect listed businesses and make buy/hold/sell, recommendations to their investing clients.
These anal-ists, employed by the banks, knew 18 months ago of the impending blow up that is about to happen, yet they keep on spurious lending practices, at multiples of earnings that damn-well guarantee impending problems, and pay themselves monstrous bonuses on the back of these fictitious paper profits. I said on this very blog, months ago, that after Xmas bonuses have been calculated, that the shit would hit the fan, and so it is doing. Yet the press calls the guys who bring down share prices "illegal traders". it's absolutely obvious that banks are "illegal traders", and also liars on the state of their balance sheets. Even if you can't read a balance sheet, their actions (as above) show the true state.
So it ain't just the personal relationship angle that has to alter, that's just the start, it's the entire world view of current society, and in particular the leaders and mouth-pieces that has to TOTALLY alter
And I just don't see it happening.
Make no mistake, after this is settled, in however many years it takes, things, structures, relationships, will have altered.
Given the planning that went into this fucking debacle, you can bet that whatever results from it, it will not be better than what we have now. The committees of inquiry, and all the rest of the apparatus, probably being assembled as we blog, will all be subverted, as in the past
Fine words and thoughts will stay at the personal level, the sheeple will be sheepled as before. The sheeplers will still have power, only more so.
A return to a sane economy, not a hollowed out, over militarily-extended, paper passing war mongering, duplicitously posturing society, will somehow have to be achieved.
It will probably take a bloody civil war to achieve that which you desire.
Anon @11:58,
ReplyDeleteDon't forget that HBOS recently raised £750 million at 9.5% rate.
If that isn't the actions of a bank in absolute trouble, I don't know what is.
And then the head honcho says everything is fine.
Gimme a break, the guy is a liar.
Time to reserve a seat on the emigration train, while the £ still has some value. gorgon has screwed everyone, now just watch, the £ falling like a lead balloon.
Bastards.
ROFLMFAO.
ReplyDeleteI'm not even gonna discuss this crap. But if you believe that story, I've got a bridge I could sell you, and would you like a slice of this delicious moon cheese, specially flown in on the shuttle!
3-Month Sterling Libor Fixed At 5.9875% Vs 5.98% Wednesday
ReplyDeleteAnd that's with BofE funds.
Well done, that's fixed then!
Rising steadily to oblivion!
i'm with anon, bring on the bloody civil war! who needs 'fine' words when brute force and violence always works perfectly well.
ReplyDeleteNunyaa - thanks.
ReplyDeleteGentlemen - your gentle words are appreciated. :)
Gentle words???
ReplyDeleteWhich bit was that?
I call it reasoned discussion.
How do you reach your interpretation?
Please explain.
JAMES, visit any decent newspaper, where readers are asked for comments. The absolute hatred, disgust, for both politicians and banks is screaming from the comments section. Many would have the banks fail, and execute the directors, many would not allow the BofE to intervene, many would string up gorgon for his lies and deceit over the years.
ReplyDeleteOutright rebellion is not yet, but the mood gets ever more dangerous.
When layoffs come, and they will, and there will be many, there will be problems.
Everyone I speak to hates gorgon, really hates the filthy skunk.
If the UK had non recourse mortgages, my gawd, the banks would really be in the shit, but as I said in a previous blog, for now, "walk away" seems not to be acceptable. Dammed if I know why.
God-free.
ReplyDeleteHave you succeeded in stopping the internal dialogue (yet?):)
So you still don't think a full-blown recession is heading this way?, take a look at this!
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