As Yeats said:couch wrote:And some who should know better.
''The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity''
As Yeats said:couch wrote:And some who should know better.
It is true that he was writing about the Nazi dogs of Europe, rather than mere street dogs on the televisual stage but they are all the result of populist movements. It makes me smile with wonder when I hear all the parading and touting of modern (so-called) 'democracy' as a sublime benefit to mankind - and see the potentates of the Middle East queuing up to pay it lip-service to avoid the next barrage of scud missiles. Everyone fails to mark the point that, since it came of age (I suppose with the universal franchise), Britain has declined from being the greatest power on earth to a mere poodle, without even an aircraft carrier to its name! The Great Lie of the Age is in the words ''Great Western Democracy'' and, while I am as utterly appalled as any by the use of terrorism to achieve objectives, I can at least see that there may be those who see the effects of populist government, achieved through 'democratic reform', as a means to the thin end of the wedge: government by the ignorant and selfish and slovenly, for the benefit of the ignorant and selfish and slovenly. The fact that our governments condescend as they do, to tell us that we are all so stupid that we need plain packaging of tobacco to discourage us from using tobacco; because we are all also so stupid that we do not consider the risks (and so on and so forth), just shows what we have vbecome as a civilization: one in which there is no aspiration, and no expectation: the paradise of the Miss Dumb Blonde and Mr Jerk, each with an IQ of 80. They are in control. Do I like it? Of course not. Am I then a snob? You bet your boots I am!couch wrote:Indeed. I try to take comfort in the fact that we have survived 98 years since he wrote that. Still, it's sometimes hard to be sanguine about the next 98.
NJS wrote:And then....we have this mob:
http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/news/celebrity- ... 00808.html
Templates and style leaders for the yoof of today. Ye gods! - Well, Ye yobs, anyway!
NJS
what you see is what you get...couch wrote:And some who should know better.
I suppose you mean the union of Miss Dumb Blonde and Mr JerkNJS wrote:Moreover, in modern Britain, paedophiliacs and child-murderers run amok, while the parliament, elected by Miss Dumb Blonde and Mr Jerk, seriously spends time to debate how to twist the marriage laws out of shape to fit unions that would have had the prophets of the Old Testament preaching hellfire and brimstone and would have seen The Boss flinging around bolts of lightning and flattening whole cities of the plain.
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