Watched

okay - it is fairly obvious I will not like CCTV given the other blogs here. But the real problem is not that it invades privacy. As a matter of fact it does not,as most are switched off. The real problem is not that it creates a false sense of security (which it does), so much as it plays to a naff and naive access in British politics. i mean the axis that has at one end politicians who are desperate to do something (popular), and the people who are desperate to have some act of popularism (The hang the Czar lobby) enacted (and it harm none). The camera's therefore represent a comprises, something appauling popularist, something that appeals the the lynch mob -mentality is done, and done often and cheaply.
Technology is therefore used to placate the mob or at least allow them something more than they had been allowed. the worry is that is technology allows more and more things this Lynch mod bias will come to constantly distort what we doing with it (think DNA data base) and therefore where we spend money. the Mob agenda then seeps into the kind of technology we fund and therefore how and when are change our societies through that technology.
Now there really is a frightening thought!

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criss-crucified

The story of the losing discs is one of those stories about the fault line fast changing technolgies bring to the world. it is impossible to keep up. it is useless (and impossible) to homogenouify different systems. The result is that every feature of modern life is criss cross with technologies of different ages, and different purposes. it cold be no other way. As long as this is the case (and it will be as long a technology changes rapidily) then one will be faced with a simple choice. Use thetechnology to the maxim of its potential and risk cock up. or else police the entire system, worry about every detail, and restricting access at each and every point. One thereby mimises the chance of one kind of risk by restricting what is allowed across the entire system while also opening oneself up to all the abuses of power this restriction can cause.
Not much of a choice really.

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Oh well!!!

Perhaps that one of the offshoots of excess privatization of the service industries is that it removes the desire to go green. i mean by a quirk of fate many of the greenest of measures (insulation or wind power or solar) are very local very small scale affairs. Large companies do not make a profit there therefore. From which two things follow. The politics of the environment becomes caught up in the class struggles of yester year (people versus big business), and there is little or no impetus to follow throw a green agenda (as the wrong people make money). The entire debate become thereby infused with apathy and inappropriate class hate - which is of course beautifully British and wonderfully useless!

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One of those mysteries I suppose

It has been a lovely game of rumour and inuendo. For the last two to three weeks it seems to me very much the case that the British Media have be aching for a 'fuel protest', with a hunger that needs to be seen to be beleives. they are even now in the process of trying to create a panic out of a strike by 5% of the tanker drivers. the deep question I suppose is why - perhaps they want the story of Brown failure or success? Or perhaps they are running out of copy!

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The Game of Shsss

Cannot say it now you know. Cannot say the A level is really gone down the tube. not when pupils are taking it. D not want to discourage them.
Pity that we have created an impossibly daffy a Level in the first place though. I for one as teacher find that endlessly discouraging
Pity also we will only listen to the debate now, when the exams are being taken. Pity then this is the only time one cannot attack the exams and be hear - even in that hearing is the shut up of not now.
naff that.

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Another Bad sign

It is of course a bad bad sing when people use the cock-ups of the other side to critique the party of government. one side much up with the moronic whoops a daisy and the otherside get whoospy dasied instead.
It makes one hope that somehow the economy goes right and Brown becomes unpopular again - to whoospie daisy the critics. (actually given they will keep their jobs that till do little or no good)

assymetrical

it is beautiful really.- faith or habit.
the media have decided that this is the moment they will go for Labour. This is the moment we are right back in 1978. this is the moment it all goes wrong.
And so we the spin endless stories of Brown Difficulties (real or made up), and gives us endless accounts of the country going to the dogs. What to they do Cameron about on the week the Tory party was plagues once again with corruption allegations? His parting!
(what is of course funny is that a man who is clearly losing his hair wanted to play ball with this. Maybe isis trying to convince us that he is not losing it? Or maybe he shared the media worries that is he is allowed to say anything serious the public will twig what a daffy right ring git he is - safer you see to talk of hair).
A far safer ploy given the plot line is Gordon Brown's demise anyway.
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Truth!

Truth also was an odd construction anything long enough and it feels true. Say it with others and it really feels true. say it will feeling and it feels almost certain. Care about it being true for whatever reason (and their can be a multitude of such reasons) and it really will feel to be the case. Confuse it with another charm and the desire to believe what they say, and the true becomes one of those fixed public certainties: the trouble here hough is an odd one our very obession with true makes it so very easy to manufacture...

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The Mirror cracked

Suppose it is obivous, but it is pathetic that the media-politician are driving forward and defining exactly who it is who are allowed to be our politicians Ee get the politicians then who seem seems to stay human when they travel around the country repeating the same political mantra time out of mind.
We get the patient actor with a bizarre ability to be spontaneously friendly and apparently human in the least humane of situation; we get those who are capable of using their adrenalin to cope with the tedium; we get those who are prepared in the name of some mystical quasi-divine state power, to become the vice pieces of others.
Let us hope such people are actually good at ruling. ( My feeling is that it would be easier and cheaper and just as effective to draw straws though!)


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The Twin faces of racism

I is a mystery really. it used to be an age old rule that political parties could eclipse the power of such parties as the BNP, but adopting rascist policies themselves. Time and time again the policy was 'adopted' and the parties tool on aspects of the extreme right. So what has happened now? i mean we have partied which are more abhorently xenophobic than ever before and a BNP thriving? Heaven forbid that is a 'global' economy the issue is no longer race or even culture but rather fear that others are doing or will do better than we are. For is it is (and it sometimes sounds that way) we are all in for the roughest of rides...)


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