Nexie wrote:
>Rock Drill wrote:
>> Nexie wrote:
>Of course. I know there are rabidly "patriotic" people out there who
>would gladly send Vulcan bombers 2,000 miles, refuelling mid-air on the
>way, to drop bombs on an airfield and miss, and consider it worthwhile
>to protect British citizens (if only....) but let's face it, the only
>thing that would make Thatcher do that is cold, hard cash. For the
>fiscal cost of the Falklands war, every Falkland Islander could have
>been safely re-homed and given a few million £ to spend.
So we all rejoiced with Maggie and w00ted with the S*** when over 300
sailors died: http://fdd.typepad.com/fdd/images/the_sun_gotcha_2.jpg
>It's clear to see that life is very, very cheap to every government
>there has ever been, but resources and strategic territory are worth
>doing almost anything for. In that, most world leaders are just as bad
>as Bush - he just does it on a bigger scale and involves the whole world
>when he does.
I do think that Bush is a meatpuppet for more powerful people, though.
I was gutted when Gore lost - he was the only candidate who appeared
to have his own mind and also be able to think about wider systems.
I am beginning to despair; the more I discover the more cynical I get,
and there seems to be little that individuals like us can
realistically do to change things. Certainly in a non-violent way.
I remember some time ago being involved in ***ual health promotion
initiatives, where young women were being taught how to negotiate
'safer ***'. This was supposed to empower them.
The trouble was, you can negotiate all you like but if your partner
responds by punching you in the face and telling you what to do, it's
no use at all.
The effect of the 'empowerment' was to further disempower and
disillusion women who now understood how im****tant safer *** was, but
also understood that they couldn't even begin to negotiate it.
There is a sort of parallel here, I'm sure.
>"Radix malorum est cupiditas" - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Tale
>"I wolde I hadde thy coillons in myn hond
>In stide of relikes or of seintuarie.
>Lat kutte hem of, I wol thee helpe hem carie;
>They shul be shryned in an hogges toord." - also Geoff, The Pardoner's
Tale.
Hehe, it's a long time since I read Chaucer, but his imagery is
brutally to the point!
Rock
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