02-02-2011, 07:03 PM
Quote:Lord Nat Wei has no private income to fall back on, and is cutting his voluntary hours to earn more money and see more of his family.
It could become the allegory of the "big society" age. The man appointed by the prime minister to kickstart a revolution in citizen activism is to scale back his hours after discovering that working for free three days a week is incompatible with "having a life".
It's a parable.
But then the Tory party's "Big Society" project was always no more than a flimsy cover "narrative" for the dismantling of the British welfare state. The Tories' modern icon, "Thatcher Thatcher the milk snatcher", proudly declared "there is no such thing as society". Her philosophical heirs are fleshing out Maggie's dream.
Warming up the electrodes, turning up the ECT machine to 11....
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war