Look at me!!!!!!

Perhaps it is inevitable that we endless reproduce our own our political soul in some form or other.

In days gone by, it was of course in those wonderful categories 'the working man' or the 'taxpayer' or even the migrant. And perhaps part of the problem with modern political life is that much of the confidence so necessary to the production of such souls has been lost, as such souls become at once personal and secretive. Where the soul was once given in the membership of some collective identity, all of whom were subsumed under a statistical  rubric, it is now tied to a set of figures and facts which we are meant to carry engraved within our hearts (and never to reveal even to our loved ones).

 Hence the losing fact and figures (which were protected by passwords), it is thought to matter quite so much. That is, as we do not seem to understand the principle of safety in numbers anymore (realistically a scam involving even 100000 of the 25 million lost would be likely to stand out, and so the chances of its 'being you' are probably smaller than the chances of being caught up in a road accident). We see only the personal worry-  the personal risk to our own  finances. Moreover there is a real oddity in the entire hysteria here. It is clear that in a sense we have confused ourselves with a set of statistics - and feel a personal loss when  the government looses yet another set of figures (which is no doubts a hardly rare occurrence). I suppose politician really had better take note though, if those statistics really are our new political-souls then the no doubt everyday and run of the mill lack of efficency in any government department, might be so easily taken as something diabolitical.


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