Various things

[avevale_intelligencer]

eintx brought me an article written by her partner, the last he wrote before leaving his paper, the Bonn General-Anzeiger, about the euro and how it all began so hopefully. Here in insular old Little England, there's a tendency to think of the euro as something They Did (or Tried To Do) To Us, because of course the world revolves around us and our enemies are everywhere I tell you. If anyone still thinks that, the article (which is in paper form and Deutsch; I haven't been able to find it online) has some interesting insights, some of which I even understood.

Otherwise, poking my head up for a brief glance at the real world, things still don't seem to be getting any better. Andrew Neil in the Radio Times says debt-based capitalism has failed, which he only just seems to have realised even though we've known for some time, but doesn't seem to see any solution beyond a prolonged period of austerity, privation and hardship, a "Lost Decade" or several. Of course there won't be any solution as long as our governmental systems remain the same, and I rather fancy that through all this horribleness the rich will stay just as rich as they are. The austerity, privation and hardship will only apply to all of us out here. The Tories continue to move steadily towards the abolition of the benefits system so that they can give more money to their friends and watch us all starve. The LibDems (I speak of their leaders, not the innocent rank and file) can rot in stinking hell for eternity for giving us into the hands of these scum. There will never be true democracy, the kind that might actually not be the worst system except for all the others, till Conservatism as a political philosophy is discredited and forgotten as the shabby scam it was. And the same probably goes for socialism. Why in heaven's name can't a government just govern?

In local news, iLok's first suggestion has proved a broken reed, so I'm waiting for another response. If I don't make it work today, some major rearrangement is going to be necessary before I can send out some things that certain people need urgently. No pressure, then. ":)"

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

What would a government just governing mean?

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know. I know it wouldn't be governing for the purpose of lining the already overstuffed pockets of self and friends, or governing for the purpose of reshaping the socioeconomic structure of the country in line with a hundred-year-old theoretical treatise. It wouldn't be governing for any purpose other than making things work properly for as much of the time as possible. Maybe that's a crazy idea.