How could a
country whose taste
in media is built
on extreme
heart-warming
sentimentality
finish up with a
nasty arsehole
like Trump?
Category: politics
No room in the neurones
He who is
tired of learning
has been doing
it for seventy
three years and
needs to rest
Values
Once upon a time
the products of high
technology – pottery,
swords, carriages,
furniture, bicycles,
wireless sets – were
valued and
treasured; kept in
good repair for
many years, decades,
passed on
from generation to
generation. Now mobile
phones, ipads, tv sets, video
games, cars, houses
even, end up in landfill
after months, days,
hours sometimes.
Fly away
All of that effort
to raise a young Magpie –
sitting on eggs for weeks,
backwards and forwards
bringing beakfuls of
juicy worms and beetles,
ends as a sad bunch of
feathers smeared across
a busy road.
Much like children
in a war zone.
11/11/1918
Just think
what all those dead
young men could have done
in the years after 1918.
Think of the advances
in Art, Literature,
Music, Science. Think of
the leaders who might
have steered their countries
into a better new age.
And think of the
potential of their
descendants, never born.
Because politicians,
and Generals, thought
nothing of those things,
and happily sent
them off to die.
For nothing.
Dress rehearsal
Watching Trump gradually putting together the framework of a Fascist state is like seeing a re-enactment of Hitler putting together the framework of Nazi Germany.
40 winks more
Strange how some event which is a “wake-up call” leaves everyone sleeping just as soundly as ever.
Hierarchy
If you don’t get qualifications when you are young you will find yourself working for idiots. If you do get qualifications you will find yourself working for more highly paid idiots.
Doesn’t matter who votes, it’s who counts the votes*
Americans, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, believe they have the “world’s greatest democracy” (whatever that means). What is undoubtedly true is that they have the worst electoral process of any western democracy.
* And establishes electoral boundaries, and decides on voter ID, and sets up polling places, and uses electronic voting, and has no control over election funding.
Lament for a lost planet
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