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Thursday 15 November 2007

Another must read article

From The Daily Brute via mediocracy comes an article entitled "Liberty and the state: reasons to be scared", it covers some history and includes this paragraph "The Bottler is essentially pre-programmed. And that programme, whatever his claims to be a high-minded son of the manse, is the authentic voice of early 70s student agitation. Filtered through his own oddly stiff personality and, later, the advent and eventual success of media-friendly NuLabour, it has produced a bizarre combination of bigger government (which always knows best), inevitably funded by ever increasing taxes, and a desperate desire to spin and lie." Nicely said...

The Daily Brute also includes a quotation from 1984, that I must admit I had missed, and it is most aposite:

"The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists and professional politicians. These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class...

As compared with their opposite numbers in past ages, they were less avaricious, less tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and, above all, more conscious of what they were doing and more intent on crushing opposition."

Read the quotation from 1984 and see if you can see it as anything other than relevant to describing our current political masters.

Our future may be as I have previously described "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."

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