I was very excited by the opportunities lockdown provided for us all to reassess our values and find new paths to follow. Maybe we could stop spending our money on things that make us fat and ill, perhaps redesign the failing shopping malls and high streets into living spaces and communities for instance. However, it seems as though we are being pushed to resume our old ways in order to “save the economy”, eg online taxes to save the dead in the water high streets, vouchers to encourage us to eat in restaurants. I had hoped our new government would be bolder and seize this opportunity for change but it seems as though innovation is in short supply and the powers that be want us to return to our old ways. Maybe it’s too soon and these changes will be considered in the fullness of time, but I fear it will be too late and the opportunity for real change will be gone.
Lee Johnson
3 years ago
Candidates for the ‘periwig’ of our present times include: ‘The 5 orders of virtue-signalling’ ‘The 5 orders of correctness’ ‘The 5 orders of outrage’
We live amongst a veritable cornucopia of periwigs
Any suggestions for the next periwig ? How about ‘The 5 orders of public health’ culminating in the air diet and death.
Change always comes from new technology… even Marx got that right. Innovation is finding new uses for current technology.
Change doesn’t change itself: that’s a circular argument.
In as much as political process is a technology, Western politics is like a rigged casino wheel… house always wins barring accident: Trump; Brexit. The idea that the technology has changed is not supported by the evidence.
And where is the innovation in Boris Johnson’s Government, or the Countries of the EU? Increased empowerment of State over the individual, increasing central economic planning and control: tax; regulate.
“And where is the innovation in Boris Johnson’s Government, or the Countries of the EU? Increased empowerment of State over the individual, increasing central economic planning and control: tax; regulate.”
A lot of Leavers (especially up North) want more government, more spending, more taxation (not on them personally) and more regulation/protection.
Thank you Jeremy. I’m ‘one of them Northern buggers’ and your right. …Enough of this Southern pampering already, trains that move and aren’t 100 years old would be a good place to start. Onwards and upwards!
I was very excited by the opportunities lockdown provided for us all to reassess our values and find new paths to follow. Maybe we could stop spending our money on things that make us fat and ill, perhaps redesign the failing shopping malls and high streets into living spaces and communities for instance. However, it seems as though we are being pushed to resume our old ways in order to “save the economy”, eg online taxes to save the dead in the water high streets, vouchers to encourage us to eat in restaurants. I had hoped our new government would be bolder and seize this opportunity for change but it seems as though innovation is in short supply and the powers that be want us to return to our old ways.
Maybe it’s too soon and these changes will be considered in the fullness of time, but I fear it will be too late and the opportunity for real change will be gone.
Candidates for the ‘periwig’ of our present times include:
‘The 5 orders of virtue-signalling’
‘The 5 orders of correctness’
‘The 5 orders of outrage’
We live amongst a veritable cornucopia of periwigs
Any suggestions for the next periwig ?
How about ‘The 5 orders of public health’ culminating in the air diet and death.
And the 5 orders of ‘the’ science.
Change always comes from new technology… even Marx got that right. Innovation is finding new uses for current technology.
Change doesn’t change itself: that’s a circular argument.
In as much as political process is a technology, Western politics is like a rigged casino wheel… house always wins barring accident: Trump; Brexit. The idea that the technology has changed is not supported by the evidence.
And where is the innovation in Boris Johnson’s Government, or the Countries of the EU? Increased empowerment of State over the individual, increasing central economic planning and control: tax; regulate.
What’s new?
Even the USA is a long way down that road.
“And where is the innovation in Boris Johnson’s Government, or the Countries of the EU? Increased empowerment of State over the individual, increasing central economic planning and control: tax; regulate.”
A lot of Leavers (especially up North) want more government, more spending, more taxation (not on them personally) and more regulation/protection.
Thank you Jeremy. I’m ‘one of them Northern buggers’ and your right. …Enough of this Southern pampering already, trains that move and aren’t 100 years old would be a good place to start. Onwards and upwards!