Thursday 16 October 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
A Kombat Blog! Huffing! and Puffing! trying to blow the house down! Spitting in the face of these badlands! Raging against the dying of the light! Preaching to the converted? Converting the preached to? A challenge to the intellect? or Intellectually challenged? Totally Random! Creative Chaos! Is it art? music? Politics? or Yarbles!?
They only tell us what they want us to know.....An Anti Austerity Demo gathered outside the BBC headquarters in London the other weekend, ...
“Trust, faith, good, bad...non of it matters. All you ever do is what you have to do. Follow your desires, fulfil your needs, escape from pain. That's all there is to it.” - Kevin Brooks.
"Things you use; things you possess, and are possessed by; things you build with - bricks, words. You build houses with them, and towns, and causeways. But the buildings fall, the causeways cannot go all the way. There is an abyss, a gap, a last step to be taken." - Ursula Le Guin.
HIGH STREET
I took a walk and what did I see
Miles and miles of misery.
Down in the town they offer heaven
For all your pounds.
Get back home open up the bag
Then get the feeling you’ve been had.
Just more shit you didn’t need
Consumption feeds their fix for greed.
3 comments:
Eighty year old guy arrested at Labour party conference under terrorism act. Terrorism law used to freeze Icelandic assets in UK. Web browsing to be monitored to ‘Combat terrorism’. Correct me if I’m wrong, but is the government just feeding us a fear of terrorism message for other means.
No I don't think yer wrong anon. There's lots of different shit going down at the moment,economic collapse, US election, the continued war on terror, growth of right wing politics in Europe. I'm sure is all connected in one way or another, and 'the fear factor' is a way to control people into submission of what and how ever this new system turns out, because it is happeneing, there is a shift toward something, a fear of the unknown to some, to others a chance for change, but will that change come at a price, eg individual Freedoms! I dunno, but I did say a while back we were in for interesting times, so bring it on, and lets see what we can do about it, if we don't all get locked up for being terrorists.
This erosion of democracy has been going on for a long time. And after the US election the media may at some stage point out that a huge proportion of the electorate did not vote (probably around about a half). Is it any surprise? The shaping and controlling of agendas has meant that the threshold of opinions considered 'subversive’ has grown: forms of political ‘involvement’ are encouraged which seek to guarantee integration, rather than forms of critical thought or action that may lead to a direct questioning of or a challenge to prevailing forms of institutionalised power. It's 'establishment' politics. Where's the choice. And all supported by this culture of fear and surveillance.
Post a Comment