Politicians are people who have sought power and been granted it by the masses, neither having the wisdom to know the nature (failings) of self or other. In the world as currently configured, and accepted, it is OK to be clever. But clever brought us to this debacle. With wisdom, it could never have been possible.
Only this morning Katherine Whitehorn's 'Point of View' regarding 'The Market' as a loving, providing god, was repeated. 15 minutes of common sense that our politicians dare not address.
Government will not promote wisdom - it is sunlight to their vampire-ethos. But where is the philanthropic institution that will brush aside the poison of cleverness and bring wisdom the young? And with that wisdom, a glimmer of hope for the future?
Sunday, 7 September 2008
Saturday, 6 September 2008
WRONG WRITING
When Dubya reads another’s words
He does it rather well
Transposing type to spoken word.
We followed him to Hell.
The rhetoric is honed and clear
An actor with his lines
No word illuminates the man
No Freudian Slip defines.
We now know Kennedy’s: ‘Ask not’
Was written by another.
No one who heard asked: ‘Who wrote that’
Just hailed Jack as their brother.
Obama now shall rule the waves
That Britain once aspired to.
This man will speak the world anew
(Through someone he has hired to).
Or will McCain’s new running mate:
The Palin Stepford Wife
Through off-the-peg words cut to fit
Transfuse him with new life?
We lie content within the lie
Of Havel’s shrewd perceiving.
The Emperor’s clothes are woven words
Bespoke for our deceiving.
He does it rather well
Transposing type to spoken word.
We followed him to Hell.
The rhetoric is honed and clear
An actor with his lines
No word illuminates the man
No Freudian Slip defines.
We now know Kennedy’s: ‘Ask not’
Was written by another.
No one who heard asked: ‘Who wrote that’
Just hailed Jack as their brother.
Obama now shall rule the waves
That Britain once aspired to.
This man will speak the world anew
(Through someone he has hired to).
Or will McCain’s new running mate:
The Palin Stepford Wife
Through off-the-peg words cut to fit
Transfuse him with new life?
We lie content within the lie
Of Havel’s shrewd perceiving.
The Emperor’s clothes are woven words
Bespoke for our deceiving.
Friday, 29 August 2008
OBAMA THE TRUE HEIR TO BLAIR?
Charisma is on the march again, shining so brightly that one just can't quite make out what is behind the sparkle. It looks good, it feels good and by golly - it just might do anything. Oratory - Charisma's right hand boom - is in close attendance; rapture is all around.
Those with an ounce of acumen, today recoil from the trail that shooting-star Blair left, and the wealthy cinder that now rolls about, with residual momentum, in more forgiving places.
Put not your trust in Charismatic Oratory, it can be the first refuge of the psychologically desperate 'scoundrel'.
Those with an ounce of acumen, today recoil from the trail that shooting-star Blair left, and the wealthy cinder that now rolls about, with residual momentum, in more forgiving places.
Put not your trust in Charismatic Oratory, it can be the first refuge of the psychologically desperate 'scoundrel'.
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Georgia
COMMON FACTOR
All round the world it is commonplace for driven, needy individuals (usually men) to rise to the most powerful positions, there to behave badly. To my mind, it follows, that the problem is dysfunction within humankind as a whole, in the world as currently configured.
My best guess is that, in small numbers, before agriculture and settlement, with simple tools and weapons, even with a big brain and language, mankind was at best meta-stable. In some far-off future, it is possible to project the application of all we now know, to re-establish stability. But in these 'middle years' that we currently occupy, we are mad - to the tune of 6 billion and too much everything. Putin is, in terms of this scheme, a symptom of a psychological 'disease' for which no cure yet exists.
Possibly, the wisest on the planet might devise some approach to Putin that would resolve this impasse. But wisdom is not espoused by governance in the 'civilised world, probably because (unlike arms) it cannot be patented or sold and never becomes obsolete.
All round the world it is commonplace for driven, needy individuals (usually men) to rise to the most powerful positions, there to behave badly. To my mind, it follows, that the problem is dysfunction within humankind as a whole, in the world as currently configured.
My best guess is that, in small numbers, before agriculture and settlement, with simple tools and weapons, even with a big brain and language, mankind was at best meta-stable. In some far-off future, it is possible to project the application of all we now know, to re-establish stability. But in these 'middle years' that we currently occupy, we are mad - to the tune of 6 billion and too much everything. Putin is, in terms of this scheme, a symptom of a psychological 'disease' for which no cure yet exists.
Possibly, the wisest on the planet might devise some approach to Putin that would resolve this impasse. But wisdom is not espoused by governance in the 'civilised world, probably because (unlike arms) it cannot be patented or sold and never becomes obsolete.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)