I woke up with all this rattling around in
my headache, so it’s as much a satirical rant as political commentary.
Why
this man is a fool -->
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| Shark-boy |
Campaigners for the separation of church
and state often miss the point. It’s not just the encumbrance of traditional
religions, and lobbying by modern cults, that hinder social progress; it’s also
the many and varied, but all misguided, attempts to manage economies on national
or global scales. Economics is simply another belief system, not a practical science.
Consequently, there is no good news on political fronts, and I doubt there will
be, unless the people demand/ enforce some radical social changes.
Ministers in government can trace their
jobs back to positions in the imperial system.The current Chancellor of the Exchequer probably
thinks his job can be traced back to a royal treasurer for kings and queens,
but he’s actually a modern version of the court jester. In popular mythology,
King Canute became his own ‘fool’ when he seemed to believe that his royal
blood granted him some kind of magical authority over the waves. Since tides
are prompted by the Moon, what ‘delusional’ Canute really needed was anti-gravity
technology.
That famous misquote: ‘the business of
America is business’ no longer holds true, in any sense, because America itself
seems no longer to be a nation, it’s just a business. Now, it's just too late to be an optimist.
Meanwhile, some notes for a hopeless manifesto:
For the 21st century, government needs
inspired leaders not jobsworth managers. Of the currently elected officials,
none are capable to solving the problems of a corrupted economic system. The
political tools might well already exist, but the will to use them is not
there. We need a new political system, and a social contract with a global
reach. Something based on secular principles of a ‘united world’, not just a
United Nations. Is it any wonder the dream of utopia (as process not destination) is lost?
