Always the problem is if you give someone your shirt they are likely to want your trousers in the end/ the game of government is therefore to ensure a lightfooted genorousity (so that each interest group does not organize around what they WANT next. Trouble is the game of political funding is to offer people hope of greeds to come. the real game of being a prim minister is the game of poll dancing - you must always titillate without ever offer climax.
Are you volunteering to tell this to Gordon Brown?
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About Me
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- The aim is these blogs is to give a practical series of examples and off the cuff pieces of analysis which fit in to a far larger scale project of making Philosophy Political. Why does this matter? Because as Foucault says, one of them oddities of thinking is the extra silent thoughts one thinks without knowing it - call them assumptions or prejudicesor what you like. My aim in the pieces here, but also on the website, is then to reweave these assumptions, or at least aim to show how they might be unpicked. Hence the importance of the dictionary which is by far the most important entry here, and really deserves a blog of its own (it is called noted on media language)...
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