Religion if it comes late and not inherited from religious parents tends to happen to those involved in self destructive behaviour such as drug addiction alcohol abuse,crime etc who embrace faith on the rebound.Stand on any high st where evangelist preachers are harranguing totally indifferent passers by and the old I was saved by faith from terrible addictions is the familiar tedious and predictable meme.
It never seems to occur to such fanatics that they have merely exchanged one extreme for another and this is not something that just afflicts the lower chav criminal classes,even the likes of Peter Hitchens tells a similar trajectory with in his case mad Marxism and militant atheist thrown into the mix.
With militant Islam converts the same holds true although in many cases they manage to very conveniently combine elements of the old criminal mindset with their new found religion -a heady mix of drugs,sex ,on the paedophillia scale taking after Mohumud (piss be upon him) and indeed even their martyrdom is self serving - not for them the reward of being with God amidst heavenly choirs but screwing 70 virgins in a celestial harem.
Those of the criminal fraternity who convert tend to go for extremist fringes of faith or outright cults and pride themselves on not being of the orthodox organised religion but instead take their faith neat without any human intermediaries,laying great emphasis on this and somehow imagining that this makes them different in kind from the former,ie pure and uncorrupted when in fact they are merely literalist interpreters of a faith the non literal moderate eschew and are therfor far more dangerous and toxic.
These types can be found in said high streets ignored as I say by the passers by and it does not require humanists or atheists to take up the market place with their counter arguments because the indifference of the crowds to their white noise is more than sufficient as they have rightly concluded that religion is strictly for the birds.
Wednesday, November 08, 2017
Tuesday, November 07, 2017
Paradise Lost
Thieves broke into the personal financial data of millions of private citizens involving their off shore investments and passed the cache on to an international organisation of journalist who pored over them for a year and then released the information to media outlets.Instead of this provoking a universal cry of outrage at such flagrant and wanton violation of privacy and individual rights the media true to form has whipped up a frenzy of synthetic rage at the details of tax avoidance individuals have engage in including celebrities and even the British monarchy.
Such orchestrated faux moral outrage re taxation always begins with the following unquestioned,unchallenged and baseless premise: taxation is a moral good and all who avoid or circumvent it are immoral. I would like to reverse that conventional wisdom and instead say: taxation is immoral and all who attempt to avoid it are moral.
Since when did tax avoidance become immoral or the implication is, illegal? The distinction between avoidance and evasion has always been a semantic conceit of convenience but it has served a useful purpose of saving the world from complete economic meltdown and facilitated the continued functioning of what is at best a compromised semi capitalist mixed economy.Remove that and the world becomes an economic basket case of Venezuelan proportions.
In a sane world the felons engaged in such violation of privacy and depradation of individual rights would be hunted down,tried in a court of law and if found guilty as they would in any objective jujidicial process thrown in jail for a bare minimum of 10 years.
Such orchestrated faux moral outrage re taxation always begins with the following unquestioned,unchallenged and baseless premise: taxation is a moral good and all who avoid or circumvent it are immoral. I would like to reverse that conventional wisdom and instead say: taxation is immoral and all who attempt to avoid it are moral.
Since when did tax avoidance become immoral or the implication is, illegal? The distinction between avoidance and evasion has always been a semantic conceit of convenience but it has served a useful purpose of saving the world from complete economic meltdown and facilitated the continued functioning of what is at best a compromised semi capitalist mixed economy.Remove that and the world becomes an economic basket case of Venezuelan proportions.
In a sane world the felons engaged in such violation of privacy and depradation of individual rights would be hunted down,tried in a court of law and if found guilty as they would in any objective jujidicial process thrown in jail for a bare minimum of 10 years.
Sunday, November 05, 2017
Self Denial
Arch bore and purveyor of prolix pretentious prose Will Self in R 4 thoughts was virtue signalling like only the left can about the lecherous male with the 'male gaze' suggesting that young males should be placed under curfew once a week so the delicate weaker sex can traverse the streets at night free from their predatory attentions. Much grovelling breast beating ensues,how awful men are, how abusive pornography is (funny to find he has written for Playboy,)the usual feminist Dworkins tropes,urgings for the government to instigate female positive discrimination in the board room (bawd room?) institutionalise equal pay yada yada yada. It was a toe curling craven excericse in self loathing internalised misandrism.
Sleepwalking Into A Nitemare?
There is a shadow across the land in the form of a hammer and sickle as Corbyn by default takes inexorable steps towards 10 Downing St. Just as the tories facilitated the neo communist takeover of the country in1945 by refusing to point out to the country the existential threat posed by the Labour party so it it refuses to name the evil Corbyn and his henchmen represents because it fatally shares the ideological philosophical premises of socialism with Labour.
Hard Labour will inevitable come to power unless something pretty radical is done very soon to expose and head off the threat and whence could political salvation come with apparently no one even remotely of a Thatcheresque stature and callibre in the Conservative party to identify name challenge and thus vanquish the enemy within?
Hard Labour will inevitable come to power unless something pretty radical is done very soon to expose and head off the threat and whence could political salvation come with apparently no one even remotely of a Thatcheresque stature and callibre in the Conservative party to identify name challenge and thus vanquish the enemy within?
Iran -the Final Solution?
Of course no one but the parties concerned namely Israel and the US know if plans are afoot to militarily take out Iran but judging from past form of which we have a lot especially from the US I would say it is extremely unlikely and as I say it is only speculation but one thing I do know is that Trump is a sheep in wolves clothing, a man who clearly cannot tell the difference between words and actions and uses the former as a substitute for the latter. He inverts the Truman dictum Speak loudly and carry a, well,nothing actually.Shooting from the lip rather than the hip he has achieved that rare almost unique feat of having his lame duck period at the start of his presidency rather than at the end.He is to put it in the blunt language of which he would no doubt himself approve, a Blowhard president par excellence.
So Iran will wax stronger than it is already and Trump will Tweet himself into history's footnotes -if we get to have a history that is and Iran does not take us all on an eschatological journey to nuclear hell which is the inevitable endgame of leaving it to its own nefarious devices.
So Iran will wax stronger than it is already and Trump will Tweet himself into history's footnotes -if we get to have a history that is and Iran does not take us all on an eschatological journey to nuclear hell which is the inevitable endgame of leaving it to its own nefarious devices.
Saturday, November 04, 2017
OxyMoronic Student's unions
Student unions have always been an absurdity by very definition. Unions are organisations set up to ostensibly at least, protect employees but since last time I checked students are not employees they are essentially engaged in a fraud and imposture and should not therfor be recognised by any university that relies in part on taxation.
Such a move would instantly de fang the toxic culture generated by the usually middle class playing- at working class phonies- of radicalism that make up the student 'union' leaders. The nonsense of no platforming,trigger warnings,micro aggression and the whole absurd politically correct nomenclature of grievance anti free speech culture would be terminated at a stroke.
Failing the above simple sollution and cure to the cancer, corruption and anti intellectual/ free speech culture of our state funded universities they should be put on warning that said funding will cease and they will be on their own,effectively privatised. They will then be at liberty to close down all free enquiry and see their profits freeze and face eventual closure as no parent in their right mind would pay to have their offspring brainwashed and lobotimised in a free market system of education where they could choose from a wide variety of universities and avoid the latter like the plague.
Such a move would instantly de fang the toxic culture generated by the usually middle class playing- at working class phonies- of radicalism that make up the student 'union' leaders. The nonsense of no platforming,trigger warnings,micro aggression and the whole absurd politically correct nomenclature of grievance anti free speech culture would be terminated at a stroke.
Failing the above simple sollution and cure to the cancer, corruption and anti intellectual/ free speech culture of our state funded universities they should be put on warning that said funding will cease and they will be on their own,effectively privatised. They will then be at liberty to close down all free enquiry and see their profits freeze and face eventual closure as no parent in their right mind would pay to have their offspring brainwashed and lobotimised in a free market system of education where they could choose from a wide variety of universities and avoid the latter like the plague.
Aristocracy of Pull!
The New Puritanism is upon us. Damsels are in distress everywhere and seek chaperon service from the State,the ladies have the vapours,their honour is traduced,their kinees touched,their virtue compromised and the likes of Peter Hitchen the self confessed 'Victorian prude' are in paroxsyms of joy at this new puritanism from -yes - the feminists!
Unable to succeed in the cut and thrust of the marketplace the fragile creatures- known here on in as the 'weaker sex' are reverting and regressing back to Victorian times,,put-upon victims of insatiable male lust -Victorian victims who need the scaffolding of the state to protect their delicate sensibilities,virtue and honour.
Meanwhile the power lusting politicans are exposed as pathetic lubricious inadequates who have to use their work seniority to gain sexual advantage of young interns and are now a disgraced class which although judged by bizarre insane politically correct with hunting Salem like McCarthyism is a useful weapon to destroy the corrupt political class which needs to be deracinated and hollowed out anyway as it presides over state gigantism where the politician is truly God like and believes - because the political culture tells him so - that he has power over the totality of human life.Hubris crouches at the door of our politicians and its about time.
Unable to succeed in the cut and thrust of the marketplace the fragile creatures- known here on in as the 'weaker sex' are reverting and regressing back to Victorian times,,put-upon victims of insatiable male lust -Victorian victims who need the scaffolding of the state to protect their delicate sensibilities,virtue and honour.
Meanwhile the power lusting politicans are exposed as pathetic lubricious inadequates who have to use their work seniority to gain sexual advantage of young interns and are now a disgraced class which although judged by bizarre insane politically correct with hunting Salem like McCarthyism is a useful weapon to destroy the corrupt political class which needs to be deracinated and hollowed out anyway as it presides over state gigantism where the politician is truly God like and believes - because the political culture tells him so - that he has power over the totality of human life.Hubris crouches at the door of our politicians and its about time.
Saturday, October 28, 2017
R4 Today prog celebrates 60yrs of Broadcasting Hegemony
The highlight of the self regarding love fest was Gove who confessed live on air as a politician to stealing billions of pounds of taxpayers money and encroaching on their liberties but wait for it: the larceny was ok because the state broadcaster the BBC was going to hold him to account!
Yes folks the Bolshevik Broadcasting Company is a guarantor of your liberties. Next it will be grilling a mafia boss and speaking more truth to power.
The most abused Orwellian word in the English language is Independent. As the State encroaches on the very last smidgeoens of private life remaining if there are any it constructs silo agencies and labels them 'quasi autonomous' - (ever seen aquasi pregnant woman? Me neither). It attaches to them the eupehmism 'independent' to advance its inexorable State creep. Thus the BBC is 'independent', the whole of quangocracy is 'independent' and freedom dies by a thousand cuts.
Yes folks the Bolshevik Broadcasting Company is a guarantor of your liberties. Next it will be grilling a mafia boss and speaking more truth to power.
The most abused Orwellian word in the English language is Independent. As the State encroaches on the very last smidgeoens of private life remaining if there are any it constructs silo agencies and labels them 'quasi autonomous' - (ever seen aquasi pregnant woman? Me neither). It attaches to them the eupehmism 'independent' to advance its inexorable State creep. Thus the BBC is 'independent', the whole of quangocracy is 'independent' and freedom dies by a thousand cuts.
Thursday, October 05, 2017
Treason May Chokes on her Socialist Vomit
The toe curling May performance at the tory con-erence was an illustration of Niconoclast's ironclad political dictum that those who do not have an ideology are condemned to follow those who do. But in May's case it is more true to say that she does have an ideology of left wing toryism and if there is someone in the party brave enough to do it now is the time to plunge in the knife and finish her off.
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
Left v Right Mythology and the Alternative
It's way beyond time the old canard of the political spectrum of Left at one end and Right at the other be comprehensively debunked and rejected as its falsity is plain for all to see. As Theresa May makes her socialist not so lite speech about building council houses and the threat of a socialist rule by demagoguery Corbyn style hangs over the tory conference and the country it really must be confronted head on.
90% of the State should be eliminated. In a capitalist system that would happen but we are far from that and it is getting harder and harder to tell Labour and Tory apart anymore. In a supposed democracy this is a terrible and intolerable state of affairs.
True, there is no political movement or party at present or indeed in the forseeable future that is prepared to discuss this matter and all we can do now is lay the foundations of what could comprise such a movement, articulate its aims and objectives and some of the policies that would comprise a manifesto but only in broad outlines and thumb nail sketch as it were, plus a declaration of political philosophy and ideology that could counter the statism of all other political parties - without exception.
Some headline grabbing features of this radical pro freedom capitalist movement would be: The proposed abolition of the monarchy,the separation of church and state through disestablishment and abolition of the lords, re privatising the bank of England and declaring a separation of economy and state, abolition of all quangos.privatisation of the BBC and an end to all foreign aid and a complete end of all corporate welfare and the notion that business and the State are in a partnership in a corpocracy, one of the worst excrescences of the mixed economy. A repeal of all anti freedom of speech backdoor blasphemy laws of hate speech and thought crime.would also be included. The UK's membership of the UN should be put under serious review with the end goal of withdrawing from the corrupt dangerous bloated organization.
Separation of school and state - privatisation of schools and a systematic staggered phasing out of the welfare state over a generation with the concomittant reduction of taxation,simplification of the tax code with the eventual conclusion of complete abolition of taxation and removal of all regulation on trade business and industry would complete this admittedly radical manifesto for real change.
The above will of course be dismissed as fantasy politics,la la land policies but they would have not inconsiderable appeal to the youth and give them some genuine radical revolutionary politics instead of the pallid conservative stale statst establishment faux revolutionary middle class witterings of Corbyn.
The philosophy and ideology underpinning this programme would be pro reason,individual rights and a reasoned critique of altruism and identification of its philosophical roots of faith, a defence of capitalism and the limited state it is predicated on.
90% of the State should be eliminated. In a capitalist system that would happen but we are far from that and it is getting harder and harder to tell Labour and Tory apart anymore. In a supposed democracy this is a terrible and intolerable state of affairs.
True, there is no political movement or party at present or indeed in the forseeable future that is prepared to discuss this matter and all we can do now is lay the foundations of what could comprise such a movement, articulate its aims and objectives and some of the policies that would comprise a manifesto but only in broad outlines and thumb nail sketch as it were, plus a declaration of political philosophy and ideology that could counter the statism of all other political parties - without exception.
Some headline grabbing features of this radical pro freedom capitalist movement would be: The proposed abolition of the monarchy,the separation of church and state through disestablishment and abolition of the lords, re privatising the bank of England and declaring a separation of economy and state, abolition of all quangos.privatisation of the BBC and an end to all foreign aid and a complete end of all corporate welfare and the notion that business and the State are in a partnership in a corpocracy, one of the worst excrescences of the mixed economy. A repeal of all anti freedom of speech backdoor blasphemy laws of hate speech and thought crime.would also be included. The UK's membership of the UN should be put under serious review with the end goal of withdrawing from the corrupt dangerous bloated organization.
Separation of school and state - privatisation of schools and a systematic staggered phasing out of the welfare state over a generation with the concomittant reduction of taxation,simplification of the tax code with the eventual conclusion of complete abolition of taxation and removal of all regulation on trade business and industry would complete this admittedly radical manifesto for real change.
The above will of course be dismissed as fantasy politics,la la land policies but they would have not inconsiderable appeal to the youth and give them some genuine radical revolutionary politics instead of the pallid conservative stale statst establishment faux revolutionary middle class witterings of Corbyn.
The philosophy and ideology underpinning this programme would be pro reason,individual rights and a reasoned critique of altruism and identification of its philosophical roots of faith, a defence of capitalism and the limited state it is predicated on.
Saturday, September 30, 2017
Faux Liberalism and its Malcontents
One of the cancers of the age is the phenomena of illiberalism masquerading as liberalism. The rot set in the latter part of the 19th century when the liberal party went rogue and started flirting with socialism and welfare and indeed it prefigured the 20th century full blown version in the post war Labour government with wholesale nationalsation and welfarism.
Today the cancer of illiberalsim has all but devoured classic liberalism in its all invasive advanced statism that will not leave any area of human experience untouched by the clammy hand of the state whether it be human action words thoughts and emotions even.
The closing down of Uber by the Transport for London authority is one of thousands of illiberal state incursions into freedom and markets that masquerades as liberal and concern for the public good which is a transparently self serving rationale for yet another state powe rgrab and sop to the unions who have long lobbied against Uber and what they rightly regard as the threat it posed to their cosy state enforced monopoly of the taxi service in the city.
Illiberalism flying under the false colours of liberalism poses the greatest threat to freedom since feudalistic times albeit it is worse as the latter never made any pretence that it was doing anything other than holding down a whole class of people to further its own class hegemony and tyranny whereas the modern liberal is forever wearing his liberalism on his heart proclaiming his love of the people as he busily deprives the unwary subjects of the last few remaining liberties left to them.
It is very hard to criticise this faux liberalsim without running the risk of the charge of illiberalism oneself so captured has the word been by the faux liberals.It will be very hard to break though the carapace of liberalism they have cased themselves in to reveal the true tyrannical nature of their programme and fully expose its malevolent intent.
Today the cancer of illiberalsim has all but devoured classic liberalism in its all invasive advanced statism that will not leave any area of human experience untouched by the clammy hand of the state whether it be human action words thoughts and emotions even.
The closing down of Uber by the Transport for London authority is one of thousands of illiberal state incursions into freedom and markets that masquerades as liberal and concern for the public good which is a transparently self serving rationale for yet another state powe rgrab and sop to the unions who have long lobbied against Uber and what they rightly regard as the threat it posed to their cosy state enforced monopoly of the taxi service in the city.
Illiberalism flying under the false colours of liberalism poses the greatest threat to freedom since feudalistic times albeit it is worse as the latter never made any pretence that it was doing anything other than holding down a whole class of people to further its own class hegemony and tyranny whereas the modern liberal is forever wearing his liberalism on his heart proclaiming his love of the people as he busily deprives the unwary subjects of the last few remaining liberties left to them.
It is very hard to criticise this faux liberalsim without running the risk of the charge of illiberalism oneself so captured has the word been by the faux liberals.It will be very hard to break though the carapace of liberalism they have cased themselves in to reveal the true tyrannical nature of their programme and fully expose its malevolent intent.
Friday, September 29, 2017
Capitalism Serves the Collective Good!
The worst possible defence of capitalism is to attempt to defend it on collectivist grounds of serving the common good which is exactly what true to form, Thesera May did in her speech to the Bank of England. She went on to 'defend' it by championing progressive taxation for state spending on education and welfare! Damning capitalism with faint praise isn't the half of it. Misrepresenting capitalism and justifying it on socialist grounds is worst than Corbyn's full assault on it and is an admission of defeat and act of moral cowardice. It amounts to handing the keys of 10 Downing St to Corbyn which is probably where he will end up if the tories carry on in this self defeating apologetic craven way towards the only system that has ever delivered freedom and prosperity around the world.
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Freedom of Speech. An Obituary
In this country you can go to jail for seven years for handing out literature and videos critical of Islam on the charge of 'religious harrassment'. Blasphemy laws long abolished have re insinuated themselves back on the statute book in a new guise of 'hate speech'. Our response to terorism has been not to search and destroy the terrorists but search and destroy free speech in order to protect the terrorists.
During the second world war no one would have suggested that the best way to defeat the Nazis would be to pass hate speech laws making it an inprisonable offence to criticize Nazism.
There has not been a peep of protest against this outrage which illustrates the illiberal age we live in where the population has been dumbed down and conditioned to tolerate the intolerable with passivity and craven silent acquiescence.
During the second world war no one would have suggested that the best way to defeat the Nazis would be to pass hate speech laws making it an inprisonable offence to criticize Nazism.
There has not been a peep of protest against this outrage which illustrates the illiberal age we live in where the population has been dumbed down and conditioned to tolerate the intolerable with passivity and craven silent acquiescence.
Bombardied with Statism
With all the furore over Trump's decision to levy gargantuan tarriffs on Bombardier and the outcry in the British media over such wanton protectionism it has gone virtually unmentioned that Bombardier has been bankrolled by the British government to the tune of billions of pounds and this approach to state cosetting of British industry is a perfect illustration of the mixed economy and the unholy alliance between business and State implicit within it.
If a company or corporation cannot exist survive and flourish without huge injections of state ie tax funded cash in the real world ie a free market laissez faire capitalist system it would be left to fail and regarded as objectively an unsustainable, non productive dud. But in the mixed economy corporate welfare world it is given huge infusions of state largesse which has provoked the Trump hostility regarding unfair trade practices and although his response is regrettable and lamentable and downright un American and anti capitalist it ill behooves the British government to cry foul when it is engaging in its own virulent strain of protectionism with its market distorting interventionism rendering it guilty to charges of rank hypocrisy and double standards.
Although this blog has been consistently critical and opposed to Brussels and all that emanates from it is it not one of its rules that the nation states of its respective members should expressly not be funding businesses and corporations thru their tax system or is it yet one more EU rule that is honoured more in the breach than the observance?
If a company or corporation cannot exist survive and flourish without huge injections of state ie tax funded cash in the real world ie a free market laissez faire capitalist system it would be left to fail and regarded as objectively an unsustainable, non productive dud. But in the mixed economy corporate welfare world it is given huge infusions of state largesse which has provoked the Trump hostility regarding unfair trade practices and although his response is regrettable and lamentable and downright un American and anti capitalist it ill behooves the British government to cry foul when it is engaging in its own virulent strain of protectionism with its market distorting interventionism rendering it guilty to charges of rank hypocrisy and double standards.
Although this blog has been consistently critical and opposed to Brussels and all that emanates from it is it not one of its rules that the nation states of its respective members should expressly not be funding businesses and corporations thru their tax system or is it yet one more EU rule that is honoured more in the breach than the observance?
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Corbyn. Appearance v Reality
Have the chattering twittering classes got Corbyn all wrong though? Is he the insurgent gadfly on the political establishment as he is presented or have we all been taken in by the radicalist posturing which when examined a little closer doesn't really hold up at all.
I would suggest that far from being a radical change agent Corby is the political establishment personified. In the age of mixed economy statism to be arguing for yet more statist controls on business and trade and the economy, less individual autonomy, more oppressive paternalist government not less, an expansion of the bloated welfare state which saps initiative and self reliance and depresses economic growth is the most reactionary articulation of the political class it would be possible to imagine.
Not trusting the British people, suspecting them of holding unnaceptable non politically correct views,seeking to circumvent their wishes and desires by a top down centralist statism is not radical but profundly regressive and undemocratic.
Today's youth are conservative,risk averse,whiny,neurotic,fragile dependent and fully steeped in the entitlement grievance culture and Corbyn far from being the radical firebrand of subversion is their political enabler and comfort blanket, the facilitator of their neurotic flight from reality and low moral intellectual horizons. The mischaracterization of Corbyn as radicalism personified could therfor well be one of the greatest political con tricks and frauds of modern times
I would suggest that far from being a radical change agent Corby is the political establishment personified. In the age of mixed economy statism to be arguing for yet more statist controls on business and trade and the economy, less individual autonomy, more oppressive paternalist government not less, an expansion of the bloated welfare state which saps initiative and self reliance and depresses economic growth is the most reactionary articulation of the political class it would be possible to imagine.
Not trusting the British people, suspecting them of holding unnaceptable non politically correct views,seeking to circumvent their wishes and desires by a top down centralist statism is not radical but profundly regressive and undemocratic.
Today's youth are conservative,risk averse,whiny,neurotic,fragile dependent and fully steeped in the entitlement grievance culture and Corbyn far from being the radical firebrand of subversion is their political enabler and comfort blanket, the facilitator of their neurotic flight from reality and low moral intellectual horizons. The mischaracterization of Corbyn as radicalism personified could therfor well be one of the greatest political con tricks and frauds of modern times
End of Ideology Theory Debunked
Now that the ideology taboo consensus of the last 20 years since the Blair Switch Project ie that no party should have a philosophy let alone dare speak its name has been well and truly smashed with the meteoric rise of Corbyn it would be good for democratic plurality if the tories were to rediscover ideology and start articulating it before Corbyn wins by default.Will there be any sign of that in the upcoming Conservative conference? Expect porcine aviation before that happens.
Under the present political system it has been demonstrated that it is all but impossible for a third party however seemingly popular and successfull in tapping the zeitegeist to break through - witness Ukip's rise and fall, but it hard to see how any relief from the dreary statism of the political classes can be circumvented without a new political movement and party to challenge the statist quo.
Under the present political system it has been demonstrated that it is all but impossible for a third party however seemingly popular and successfull in tapping the zeitegeist to break through - witness Ukip's rise and fall, but it hard to see how any relief from the dreary statism of the political classes can be circumvented without a new political movement and party to challenge the statist quo.
Monday, September 25, 2017
Theocracy V Liberty
Defender of the faith Peter Hitchens made an extraordinary claim in a recent interview on youtube that the British people had to decide whether to re embrace Christianity or succumb to Islam.He said that they might suppose rejecting Christianity would result in a more free society but they would be sorely mistaken and the far more likelier outcome would be the UK becoming a muslim nation.
Leaving aside his vested interest in the matter - in the words of the great philosopher Mandy Rice Davies 'he would say that wouldn't he?' - and his transparent attempt at desperate theological irridentism to recover lost ground to the secularist forces, his argument is clearly absurd as practically no one in this country even believes in the British establishment's soft feeble eviscerated version of Christianity and are hardly likely therefor to fall into the arms of totalitarian Islam.
The main reason the threat of an emboldened Islam in the UK is even broached is because it is itself a defacto theocracy with a State religion via the Church of England which makes it impossible or extremely difficult to challenge and defeat Islam. One can hardly muster an argument against theocratic Islam if one is living under a system of theocratic Christianity. No argument of principle can be made against the idea of a State religion if one is compromised by having it entrenched in one's own political system in the form of a national church and religion - even if it does exist chiefly by force of the inertia of tradition.
Those who protest most voiciferously that the UK is not a theocracy are the first to argue that this is a Christian country with a Christian heritage which has informed our art,literature music and law so they cannot have it both ways.
The only solution to the threat of Islam is not to embrace another primitive religion but to have a clear separation of Church and State and let the C of E fight its cause in the market place as churches do very successfully in the United States which is clearly not (alas) suffering from any consequent dearth of religious sentiment and fervour.
Leaving aside his vested interest in the matter - in the words of the great philosopher Mandy Rice Davies 'he would say that wouldn't he?' - and his transparent attempt at desperate theological irridentism to recover lost ground to the secularist forces, his argument is clearly absurd as practically no one in this country even believes in the British establishment's soft feeble eviscerated version of Christianity and are hardly likely therefor to fall into the arms of totalitarian Islam.
The main reason the threat of an emboldened Islam in the UK is even broached is because it is itself a defacto theocracy with a State religion via the Church of England which makes it impossible or extremely difficult to challenge and defeat Islam. One can hardly muster an argument against theocratic Islam if one is living under a system of theocratic Christianity. No argument of principle can be made against the idea of a State religion if one is compromised by having it entrenched in one's own political system in the form of a national church and religion - even if it does exist chiefly by force of the inertia of tradition.
Those who protest most voiciferously that the UK is not a theocracy are the first to argue that this is a Christian country with a Christian heritage which has informed our art,literature music and law so they cannot have it both ways.
The only solution to the threat of Islam is not to embrace another primitive religion but to have a clear separation of Church and State and let the C of E fight its cause in the market place as churches do very successfully in the United States which is clearly not (alas) suffering from any consequent dearth of religious sentiment and fervour.
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Mixed Economy Blues and Reds
Why is the mixed economy still a thing and who on earth really thought it would be a good idea in the first place to put together such an unstable mix of contradictory ideologies as socialism and capitalism? As this combustible mix has created inevitable periods of boom and bust exacerbating economic cycles since its inception decades ago, it is worth examining the motives behind its construction and looking at its deleterious effects and consequences more closely.
It is undoubtedly the case that the mixed economy is a product of pragmatism,hedge betting, an avoidance of principles in favour of a shabby compromise that ultimately satisfies no one and causes endless wrangling between the respective advocates of its conflicting constituent parts, the socialists blaming the capitalists for its failings and vice versa. Bizarely what is more often the case and something very noticeable in recent times is for capitalism to take the whole rap for the sins of the mixed economy - witness the endless discussions on the 'crisis of capitalism',the failings of 'late capitalism' which goes entirely unchallenged by the alleged and putative defenders of capitalism the conservatives who in the face of this onslsught for some reason best known to themselves maintain a trappist silence.
The injustice of this much repeated canard that capitalism is the sinner rather than the sinned against lies in the the glaringly obvious fact that in the mixed economy model it is the socialst element that has been free riding at capitalism' expense since its unfortuante inception, as the wealth creation is solely on the capitalist side of the equation and the socialist part is merely the redistributor of its fruits and profits and is defacto parasiting off capitalism's achievements.
It is for the above reason that capitalism has nothing to gain and all to lose from this marriage made in hell of the mixed economy for when as inevitably it must, the mixed economy crashes upon the rocks of its own internal contradictions it will be tainted by the association and the calamties laid at its door alone.
Is this not precisely what we see in the Corbyn phenomenon? The failings of socialism go undetected in a mixed economy which were it to be forced to stand alone in a complete socialist system without capitalism to masks its defects they would be all to obvious and glaring,witness every single country throughout the last hundred years that has experimented with socialism from Soviet Russia to present day Venezuela. Granted that even in those obvious examples socialist's defenders still argue theirs is a good moral system, nevertheless, minus the mixed economy it would be that much harder to maintain such a fiction. This is not to say that a Corbyn governement would be welcome to dispel any illusions people still have about socialism but merely to point out the fallacy of those who blame capitalism for the failures for the mixed economy.
The obvious solution to the mixed economy conundrum, having exposed its follies and fallacies would be to advocate for either outright socialism or capitalism allowing the respective ideologies to stand or fall by their own merits,a fair fight in other words without all the obfuscations,evasions tawdry compromises and conflations implicit within the mixed economy. This is unlikely to happen all the while the conservatives stick stubbornly to their pragmatism but its beginning to look decidedly like thin gruel in contrast to Corbyn's red meat ideological socialsm and whilst it sufficed in the Blair years it is not looking like a viable proposition as the emboldened advancing Islington Marxist snaps ever more menacingly at May's heels.
Things are made more problematic however by the sad fact that under May the long standing lamentable vice of tory pragmatism has given way to an implicit endorsment of a soft tory socialism - witness her first speech as leader where she pledged to redistibute wealth towards the 'just about managing' and this explains why the tories have been so reluctant to confront Corbyn's socialism uncompromisingly -it is hard to critique an ideology that one partially shares and has been stated before in any contest between similar ideologies it is the party that holds to the ideology most consistently that ultimately prevails. This will explain the horror of a Corbyn government if it comes to pass. In such a dynamic Corbyn looks principled and May shifty.
If capitalism loses it will be by default,the absence of a principled opposition to socialism and its altruist roots. To lose a debate is regrettable enough but to lose by never having the debate is tragedy itself.
It is undoubtedly the case that the mixed economy is a product of pragmatism,hedge betting, an avoidance of principles in favour of a shabby compromise that ultimately satisfies no one and causes endless wrangling between the respective advocates of its conflicting constituent parts, the socialists blaming the capitalists for its failings and vice versa. Bizarely what is more often the case and something very noticeable in recent times is for capitalism to take the whole rap for the sins of the mixed economy - witness the endless discussions on the 'crisis of capitalism',the failings of 'late capitalism' which goes entirely unchallenged by the alleged and putative defenders of capitalism the conservatives who in the face of this onslsught for some reason best known to themselves maintain a trappist silence.
The injustice of this much repeated canard that capitalism is the sinner rather than the sinned against lies in the the glaringly obvious fact that in the mixed economy model it is the socialst element that has been free riding at capitalism' expense since its unfortuante inception, as the wealth creation is solely on the capitalist side of the equation and the socialist part is merely the redistributor of its fruits and profits and is defacto parasiting off capitalism's achievements.
It is for the above reason that capitalism has nothing to gain and all to lose from this marriage made in hell of the mixed economy for when as inevitably it must, the mixed economy crashes upon the rocks of its own internal contradictions it will be tainted by the association and the calamties laid at its door alone.
Is this not precisely what we see in the Corbyn phenomenon? The failings of socialism go undetected in a mixed economy which were it to be forced to stand alone in a complete socialist system without capitalism to masks its defects they would be all to obvious and glaring,witness every single country throughout the last hundred years that has experimented with socialism from Soviet Russia to present day Venezuela. Granted that even in those obvious examples socialist's defenders still argue theirs is a good moral system, nevertheless, minus the mixed economy it would be that much harder to maintain such a fiction. This is not to say that a Corbyn governement would be welcome to dispel any illusions people still have about socialism but merely to point out the fallacy of those who blame capitalism for the failures for the mixed economy.
The obvious solution to the mixed economy conundrum, having exposed its follies and fallacies would be to advocate for either outright socialism or capitalism allowing the respective ideologies to stand or fall by their own merits,a fair fight in other words without all the obfuscations,evasions tawdry compromises and conflations implicit within the mixed economy. This is unlikely to happen all the while the conservatives stick stubbornly to their pragmatism but its beginning to look decidedly like thin gruel in contrast to Corbyn's red meat ideological socialsm and whilst it sufficed in the Blair years it is not looking like a viable proposition as the emboldened advancing Islington Marxist snaps ever more menacingly at May's heels.
Things are made more problematic however by the sad fact that under May the long standing lamentable vice of tory pragmatism has given way to an implicit endorsment of a soft tory socialism - witness her first speech as leader where she pledged to redistibute wealth towards the 'just about managing' and this explains why the tories have been so reluctant to confront Corbyn's socialism uncompromisingly -it is hard to critique an ideology that one partially shares and has been stated before in any contest between similar ideologies it is the party that holds to the ideology most consistently that ultimately prevails. This will explain the horror of a Corbyn government if it comes to pass. In such a dynamic Corbyn looks principled and May shifty.
If capitalism loses it will be by default,the absence of a principled opposition to socialism and its altruist roots. To lose a debate is regrettable enough but to lose by never having the debate is tragedy itself.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
What Would a UK Capitalist Party Look Like?
Is the UK ready for a capitalist party and what would it look like? The Monarchy would be no more and few I suspect would miss it especially with the ominous prospect of Charles on the throne.(To even be having to discuss such a thing in the 21st century is absurd and surreal in itself).
There would no longer be a national church with disestablishment and again few would miss it as the Church of England is a pathetic anachronism which should have been put out of its misery long ago and is merely going through the motions spouting its shop worn liberal nostrums truly manifesting its liberal party at prayer status. With diminishing numbers of people professing a religion of any description it is absurd to keep up the pretence that we are a country of believers and it is immoral for people to be forced through taxes to support this morribund institution.
The Lords would be abolished as the two parliamentary chambers conflict leading to a systemic democratic deficit in favour of unelected Lords.
But all of the above is a mere formality,stripping away the superfices and excrescences of mindless tradition. The main changes would be the total deregulation of the economy,radical tax reduction, the closing down of most gov depts, an end to all foreign aid,privatising the BBC,ending all quangos,banning all public service trade unions with the explicit intent in due course of privatising them all bar the police, privatising the education system, freeing up the broadcasting airwaves from gov regulation. These are a few pointers.
There would no longer be a national church with disestablishment and again few would miss it as the Church of England is a pathetic anachronism which should have been put out of its misery long ago and is merely going through the motions spouting its shop worn liberal nostrums truly manifesting its liberal party at prayer status. With diminishing numbers of people professing a religion of any description it is absurd to keep up the pretence that we are a country of believers and it is immoral for people to be forced through taxes to support this morribund institution.
The Lords would be abolished as the two parliamentary chambers conflict leading to a systemic democratic deficit in favour of unelected Lords.
But all of the above is a mere formality,stripping away the superfices and excrescences of mindless tradition. The main changes would be the total deregulation of the economy,radical tax reduction, the closing down of most gov depts, an end to all foreign aid,privatising the BBC,ending all quangos,banning all public service trade unions with the explicit intent in due course of privatising them all bar the police, privatising the education system, freeing up the broadcasting airwaves from gov regulation. These are a few pointers.
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Blowhard President
He is deffo schizoid,bipolar,unhinged,unstable,demented,fascistic - and the North Korean leader is not much better! The whole world knows the USA is a paper tiger that cannot win wars and has not done so since WW2 and so the present intemperate bluster of Trump's is fooling nobody except perhaps himself.
So we are in a parlous state with two psycho regimes that need to be taken down namely NKorea and Iran and no chance whatsoever that will happen. I am wondeingr what Trump has got to do or fail to do before his supporters finally admit they were wrong in backing him. Right now it seems he has a free pass for life.
So we are in a parlous state with two psycho regimes that need to be taken down namely NKorea and Iran and no chance whatsoever that will happen. I am wondeingr what Trump has got to do or fail to do before his supporters finally admit they were wrong in backing him. Right now it seems he has a free pass for life.
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