Can we temporarily revert to classical Roman realpolitik, intercept the letter and burn it ? Pretty please ?
Someone said recently that it's important to follow intelligent media you disagree with. In this I fully agree. The problem is that for Brexit there really doesn't appear to be any intelligent media; they are all mad as clams and don't make sense. This is what the Prime Minister - supposedly an intelligent woman, but actually a mad old bat, had to say :
"And, now that the decision has been made to leave the EU, it is time to come together."
An lo, my stock responses prepared for arguing with idiots on the internet are entirely applicable :
http://astrorhysy.blogspot.cz/2017/03/brexit-faqs.html#cantwealljustgetalong
And then, a campaigner on national frickin' media has this pearl of wisdom to impart :
"Unpatriotic, pro-EU fanatics will continue to try to derail or, at the very least, delay Brexit," the group's co-chairman, Richard Tice, warned.
http://astrorhysy.blogspot.cz/2017/03/brexit-faqs.html#hateymchateface
And people wonder why I'm angry.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39422353
Ambrose Bierce:
ReplyDeletePatriot, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that is it the first.
Nice to find prime ministers establishing so quickly that they think and act just like idiots on the internet.
ReplyDeleteGet me my sword and a good horse. I'm on my way...
ReplyDeleteDan Weese And I say it is something else entirely. I say that those who love their county are those who properly recognise its faults and would like to improve them if they could, whereas it's the nationalists who think their country is already perfect and so think it better to denigrate the others than improve their own.
ReplyDeleteBrexit timeline:
ReplyDelete"30 march: Great Reaper Bill published"
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oh, Great Repael Bill. Funny I should misread it like that
Rhys Taylor Amen. Although most references to patriotism are actually talking about nationalism with a shiny word attached that doesn't mean what the speaker thinks it does.
ReplyDeleteHey, wanna swap heads of governments?
ReplyDeleteAt the moment I'm thinking I'd be on a winner swapping with either Canada or Germany. Looking at El Presidant Trunbul, successor to the Abbot and Costello show, Australia might be on a winner swapping with anyone but the US. And maybe North Korea.
ReplyDeleteDogmatic Pyrrhonist I've entertained a few thoughts along those lines. I've concluded nowhere's safe at this point.
ReplyDeleteHere's my theory: mankind goes through these phases of madness, usually once in a generation but the periodicity varies somewhat. The populist maniacs thump the tub, the mob responds - as mobs have always responded - the world breaks out in a rash of arseholes, again, it's so drearily predictable - there's confusion and paranoia and vast sacrifices on the Altars of War. Eventually, after the idiots have had their day, the fires are put out, the smoke begins to clear...
... and the survivors look around grimly, swearing they'll never let it happen again. It will, of course. A new generation will arise, susceptible to the charms of fascism, toadies and lickspittles, ready enough to polish the boots of the dictators of their times.
This from Genesis, just now.
"...Drop of wine, a glass of beer,
dear what's the time?
The grime on the Tyne
is mine, all mine, all mine
Five past nine.
Blood on the rooftops,
Venice in the spring
Streets of San Francisco,
a word from Peking
The trouble was started
by a young Errol Flynn
Better in my day, oh lord
For when we got bored,
we'd have a World War,
happy but poor.
So let's skip the news, boy
(I'll go make that tea)
Blood on the rooftops
(too much for me)
When Old Mother Goose stops,
they're out for twenty-three
Then the rain at Lords stopped play
Seems Helen of Troy
has found a new face again"
youtube.com - Genesis - Blood on the Rooftops