Comments | kynon: State of the world address...

kynon

State of the world address...

Feb 01, 2011 12:50

No Farcebook access, so this will have to go up on here in the meantime (rather a lot ganked from various other people).

Interesting post from the Independent on the similarities between Italy & the UK.

So much for evidence-based policy-making!"The recipe for revolution seems to be: an inept leader, bloated government, rising inflation, high ( Read more... )

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anonymous February 4 2011, 11:41:28 UTC

Thanks for the link!

CR.

kynon February 4 2011, 12:13:35 UTC

Not a problem. Credit where credit is due!

faerycake February 7 2011, 10:24:45 UTC

hello!

sorry for late reponse to this, but was just catching up on my friends page and had a look at the blog you linked to... I was kind of disturbed by it. Some of the blogs it links to were really right wing (one of them was even going on about how great Enoch Powell was!).

hmm... haven't had chance to articulate any thoughts other than that really, but what worries me is a lot of the talk about revolution (etc) on those blogs seems to be along quite nationalistic lines, which kind of worries me.

kynon February 7 2011, 12:43:27 UTC

I would point out that I link to the blog as it is an interesting read (or at least, I find it to be so). I posted the excerpt I did because I perceive that certain similarities exist between the UK & certain countries that are in the news at the moment.

Whomsoever he chooses to link to is his business - and there are so many links there that I haven't the time or the inclination to click them all.

Further, if I were to be plonked down on one of these political spectrum things, I would probably be on the right of centre. How far to the right would probably depend on the metric/norms used, however.

faerycake February 7 2011, 18:40:39 UTC

Hiya, sorry - I didn't mean to cause offence - I took it as you using an interesting quote rather than reading anything else into it.

I found it an interesting read too, as it got me thinking about a lot of things. Left/right often isn't a useful way of looking at things I reckon, it's funny because a lot of anarchist groups (and I use anarchist tentatively as it conjures up a lot of silly stereotypes) describe themselves as 'neither left nor right' for that reason.

Most of my values would probably be perceived as very much to the left, but I'd share a lot of concerns about the workings of government.

kynon February 8 2011, 12:11:36 UTC

No worries - no offence taken!

Strangely, I took one of those political spectrum tests, and found myself to be libertarian left...ver' odd.