tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post8841996499040184643..comments2023-12-28T09:22:34.081+00:00Comments on They're Joking. Aren't They?: Laming SeasonNorth Northwesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-23313579803168376052009-09-15T18:20:25.228+01:002009-09-15T18:20:25.228+01:00Hi James.
I'll guess and risk saying I can se...Hi James. <br />I'll guess and risk saying I can see a specific point here about the bankers and their associates who oversee, as you and Sonus describe it, the erosion of the good old things that we have relied upon for centuries in this country and elsewhere, and the misdirection of resources that accompanies that corrupting process. <br />I'm staying on the fence on that viewpoint at the moment; I'm only just getting over the shock that I appear to be a conservative after all these years, and all things in their time.<br /><br />It is, however, hard to imagine anyone doing a job well and consistently in anything like similar company in a world rent from top to bottom by a financial cartel with nothing but profit and power as its aims. <br /><br />But there's the meta-point here which, like all good conservative things, will last when our world is remade and remain true in widely different societies, and that is that any trade or profession which seeks to do something that is contrary to its primary purpose, and that does it with vigour and determination, will not achieve that purpose. Social work was supposed to help troubled, or ineffective, or just plain unlucky people to help themselves overcome their misfortunes themselves.<br />Who knows how many 'equality agendas' and 'issues' and the plain old dreary ideological bureaucracy squandered and dispersed the time and resources that would have, and should have, been directed to looking after this poor child and her broken mother? <br />Any value other than the thing itself, has a tendency to contradict the mission or to divert attention from the job in hand might corrupt the search for a given goal. <br /><br />I do have to say though, that as a retired libertarian, I still find it difficult to believe that a replaceable private company could have achieved such apparent lack of communication as the agencies involved in this tragedy.North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-80880532827356242432009-09-15T10:33:30.290+01:002009-09-15T10:33:30.290+01:00You're referring to what is within people and ...You're referring to what is within people and that is good.<br /><br />When you say not everything is political.<br /><br />Some bad things just happen, and it’s difficult to imagine how anything like a free society could prevent a few deranged individuals from committing certain terrible crimes. Some things are simply sad, and there’s nothing to be done to prevent them.<br /><br />... then it is so until it involves money. The moment money comes into the equation, it's another ball game and the people running the show can cause untold misery for us and is partly the reason why things such as you've described are not picked up on.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.com