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'.
Friday, 29 August 2008
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.
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