There's a grave risk of sounding like a worn vinyl record.
Maybe the most definitive post at this place although not necessarily the best, was this one and it really does seem, putting everything in the pot and seeing what emerges, that the notion that in any organization there are the "career people" and then there are the "bad 'uns" and that the "bad 'uns" get the plum roles and rise to the top because it is their goal - that seems to be the way this world runs.
I've seen nothing in the EU, Britain, the U.S.A., the Masons, the Church, the CIA anywhere, to definitively negate that. Thus, when looking at the whole Israel/Palestine thing, applying the same criteria, it stands to reason that there are seemingly calm but actually quite evil nutters at the very top in Israel who make things even more intransigent than they are and there are total fruitcakes running the Palestinian cause.
Thus the Palestinian idea of a ceasefire is to keep firing rockets into Israel whilst Israel must not step one foot into Palestine, Thus the hard nuts on the Israeli side, by their very intransigence, however justified in their eyes, play right into the hands of the Palestinian extremists who always seem to rise to the top and are the most vocal and violent.
Why are the vocal extremists in charge?
It's the Ford Prefect syndrome. In Douglas Adams' book, Ford tells Arthur: "They care, we don't. They win."
Just as with the long suffering citizen and in blogs, the anger bubbles underneath but never explodes. When has the common man ever spoken with one voice for more than one day before the lurking, organized extremists step in and hijack the agenda?
Our number one priority, before all else, is to wrest control out of the hands of the bad 'uns and into the hands of the average citizen - you. I'd rather have a dozen wrong decisions by you than even one carefully calculated one by a member of that lot up there.
Sounds revolutionary socialist.
Not at all - it's more a demand to just leave us alone and let us get on with our own lives - that's all. Keep your bloody EU, let us earn a crust and have a skeleton crew up top to run the ship. In Britain, in Palestine, everywhere in the world.
Maybe the most definitive post at this place although not necessarily the best, was this one and it really does seem, putting everything in the pot and seeing what emerges, that the notion that in any organization there are the "career people" and then there are the "bad 'uns" and that the "bad 'uns" get the plum roles and rise to the top because it is their goal - that seems to be the way this world runs.
I've seen nothing in the EU, Britain, the U.S.A., the Masons, the Church, the CIA anywhere, to definitively negate that. Thus, when looking at the whole Israel/Palestine thing, applying the same criteria, it stands to reason that there are seemingly calm but actually quite evil nutters at the very top in Israel who make things even more intransigent than they are and there are total fruitcakes running the Palestinian cause.
Thus the Palestinian idea of a ceasefire is to keep firing rockets into Israel whilst Israel must not step one foot into Palestine, Thus the hard nuts on the Israeli side, by their very intransigence, however justified in their eyes, play right into the hands of the Palestinian extremists who always seem to rise to the top and are the most vocal and violent.
Why are the vocal extremists in charge?
It's the Ford Prefect syndrome. In Douglas Adams' book, Ford tells Arthur: "They care, we don't. They win."
Just as with the long suffering citizen and in blogs, the anger bubbles underneath but never explodes. When has the common man ever spoken with one voice for more than one day before the lurking, organized extremists step in and hijack the agenda?
Our number one priority, before all else, is to wrest control out of the hands of the bad 'uns and into the hands of the average citizen - you. I'd rather have a dozen wrong decisions by you than even one carefully calculated one by a member of that lot up there.
Sounds revolutionary socialist.
Not at all - it's more a demand to just leave us alone and let us get on with our own lives - that's all. Keep your bloody EU, let us earn a crust and have a skeleton crew up top to run the ship. In Britain, in Palestine, everywhere in the world.
We desperately need to find a mechanism to achieve this and then go for it.
This reads like a potted Road To Serfdom.
ReplyDeleteAny idea what the mechanism in Britain might be to produce that 'skeleton crew' out of the hordes of welfare state worker ants - including me - that they have these days?
We once had Mrs Thatcher to nibble away at the bloated Labour Party Welfare State, and she was followed by [then] eager young idealists like me.
Waiting for Messrs Cameron and Osborne to grow a pair and spread the word loudly and clearly and attractively doesn't seem to be a country-saving prospect.
WE are the vocal extremists who should be in charge; civil society, under laws, in a democracy of varied and widespread property is as extreme a form of polity as any ever known in history, and very rare.
I worry that blogging just siphons off the anger from the Right, and then we get on with our lives and leave the field clear to the Left. Ford Prefects to a T.