tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post1293290509824873057..comments2024-03-29T17:12:19.648+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Nightmare On Bolsonaro Street.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-17917057784111260112018-11-08T19:05:34.929+13:002018-11-08T19:05:34.929+13:00What mostly got Trump and this reactionary elected...What mostly got Trump and this reactionary elected was exactly that: reaction to the identity politics the post-modernist neo-Marxist left has imposed on people without consent let alone any intellectual basis whatsoever.<br />So they, the left promoted voting for a semi black man, because he was black; then a women as a reason to vote for her; thereby legitimising others voting for a white man or any man who is loudly as non PC as possible. Utu!<br />When people have lies imposed on them, such as it is your sex or race or immigrant culture that makes you, or is equal to another in fact not just law or the eye of God, at some point they react decisively to give you a giant raspberry. Pythonesque indeed grey w.Charles Enoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-28640032536634742412018-11-04T18:50:52.584+13:002018-11-04T18:50:52.584+13:00Let's face it the Race Relations Office's ...Let's face it the Race Relations Office's main task since inception has been to show-trial resistance to the ideology of <i>oneness</i> of humanity. Did anyone sign up the Chinese to that?John Hurleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-8078069591090532812018-11-04T18:47:25.310+13:002018-11-04T18:47:25.310+13:00What does it say about the 55 percent of Brazilian...What does it say about the 55 percent of Brazilian voters<br />…..<br />It says they vote for the main things he gets right.<br /><br /><i>Brazil’s conservative presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro warned in a recent interview that “China is buying Brazil,” threatening the nation’s sovereignty.</i><br />https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/10/17/brazilian-presidential-frontrunner-jair-bolsonaro-china-buying-brazil/<br /><br />Compare that to Jacinda or John? John Hurleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-24423866483820549672018-11-03T11:04:11.641+13:002018-11-03T11:04:11.641+13:00Note: I have just sent through what I thought was ...Note: I have just sent through what I thought was a good comment but it has gone somewhere else and may be lost. I see that mention of google has been made as a useful adjunct to the comment stream here. As I don't want to live my life squeezed into a wormhole that travels to and from google and am wary of all the mind-grabbing entities around, I don't wish to participate.<br /><br />This is the second time my comments have vanished. I will take a personal copy next time so I won't have wasted my time trying to participate in discussions with this esteemed blog and people who attempt serious thought and discussion.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-56234213136772140742018-11-03T10:52:34.257+13:002018-11-03T10:52:34.257+13:00Referring to my analogy of the trapezing economist...Referring to my analogy of the trapezing economists working for a sort of monetary circus, python-like at 2/11 20.37, I note concerning comment from the modern managers of the BBC! While Monty Python jibes continue to be timeless, and a comment on our societal foibles, the Guardian journalist can only respond to them as dated or pantomime, and reacts to racist themes and silly walks.<br />https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/23/enough-silly-walks-from-bbc-comedy-new-voices-please-monty-python-catherine-zeta-jones<br /><br /><i>It seems impossible to have a conversation about the future of comedy without bringing up 50-year-old sketch series Monty Python’s Flying Circus, so someone did and [Shane] Allen replied, continuing his emphasis on insisting that new voices be heard. “If you’re going to assemble a team now, it’s not going to be six Oxbridge white blokes. It’s going to be a diverse range of people who reflect the modern world.” Naturally, this kicking, or nudging, of the sacred cow (parrot?) became the focus of all subsequent discussion. John Cleese took umbrage, saying Python were “diverse for their time” and calling Allen “head of social engineering”. Don’t mention the comedy war.</i><br /><br />(John Cleese's comment is on The Telegraph but they won't let me look at it if I don't remove my ad blocker. I understand their pain but I have to limit myself from being swallowed up by business mosquitoes! Perhaps I should support The Guardian, though they are criticised for their biases. but which is the least biased, and most independent minded mass printed media?)<br /><br />Don't mention the comedy war; as the latest mind-trap for the chattering classes? Which war should we be talking about then? Perhaps the unacknowledged war by the uber-wealthy, the technocrats, and the ashpirational who will burn everything that blocks their path to greater wealth and commercial scientific breakthroughs. So keep on pressing forward to get more money like Mr Creosote (a Monty Python creation), or else more untrammelled curiosity and commercially satisfactory scientific findings, carrying on from primitive school experiments like cutting up frogs or mixing chemicals to make big bangs. <br /><br />I think we should go beyond the current WW1 commemorations, and look at how WW1 and subsequent wars' brutalities set us up for our present reality misery, and the demagogues that are emerging carrying onward the flame of madness. This can be avoided and overlooked however by the light-headed concentrating on the trivia of the day. If we do not grasp the nettle (which should be said in the sonorous tone of Churchill), the tunnel-visioned fascist leaders will step forth apparently fresh and new yet grown from the stinking ordure of the past. We should recall the Corpse flower or the Rafflesia arnoldii and consider these as the true symbols of the followers of fascism and uncontrolled authoritarianism.<br />greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-85292788684298866062018-11-03T08:18:47.649+13:002018-11-03T08:18:47.649+13:00Thanks for that reference Nick .
Trump seems ...Thanks for that reference Nick .<br /> Trump seems to be so open and extreme in his actions, both economic (trade related) and foreign policy belligerence that he could be deliberately holding a mirror to America's corporate control. If it is not deliberate it is still making it obvious to all and sundry how the world has been working. The chance is greater than ever to spread awareness and maybe people like Corbyn and McDonald / Sanders will put their hand up around the world and get the support they need. The establishment is looking more and more desperate. It needs to be subtle and obscure for the mind control system to work. You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.<br />D J SDavid Stonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-41326413691138303762018-11-03T05:39:29.424+13:002018-11-03T05:39:29.424+13:00Monetary Pythons Grey, fab line, it's tragic t...Monetary Pythons Grey, fab line, it's tragic that your analysis is so correct. I have in mind the small pathogen that will kill the whole system....you can't grow food sufficient to feed the masses without sufficient oil inputs, and when that happens any amount of digits of data aka money will be useless as a way of feeding yourself, even multimillionaire will be hungry.Nick Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-63167453464798892572018-11-02T20:37:53.145+13:002018-11-02T20:37:53.145+13:00Frederick Hayek and his ilk could be called Moneta...Frederick Hayek and his ilk could be called Monetary Python's Flying circus. They can engineer a certain result that is guaranteed to deteriorate conditions for the mass poor, just follow a procedure which will be successful in transferring advantage to the upper classes out of the poor and lower middle class pockets. <br /><br />They loftily take credit for foreseeing the end results as if they were great seers and superior but actually they are cold-hearted, mendacious and calculating. They, and the people who care nothing about others and their sorry outcomes, are a blight on a country, and we all probably have some such in our own families. <br /><br />It is free market, laissez faire capitalism that provides the drug with extra phantasmagorical trips, to the Moon etc, and that heightening of the 'Affluenza' effect that will stop the heart. Or like HG Wells story, it will be something small like the pathogens that kill the aliens in War of the Worlds.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-4418661638920874252018-11-02T15:40:29.044+13:002018-11-02T15:40:29.044+13:00David / Sorrow / Geoff, you all say parts of what ...David / Sorrow / Geoff, you all say parts of what this man says https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2018-10-30/bolsonaro-is-a-monster-engineered-by-our-media/<br />Seems capital does not care who fronts the politics, they own the whole spectrum....or at least have been allowed to.Nick Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-81943271578773520292018-11-01T21:34:33.381+13:002018-11-01T21:34:33.381+13:00Those workers who are most angered by the corrupti...Those workers who are most angered by the corruption and betrayals of the left will turn to the only alternative on offer - the populist right. Those who are less angry and more thoughtful but just as surely disillusioned by the left, will not vote at all. This has been the pattern in New Zealand, the US, Brazil and every other corner of the capitalist world. It is not a disaster, just a case of history working itself out. It may end badly for the left, but the working class will survive and struggle through once freed from its attachment to the parties of the left.Geoff Fischerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00509885628971898371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-70486981572205725302018-11-01T19:37:53.849+13:002018-11-01T19:37:53.849+13:00'The Road to Serfdom' by Friedrich Hayek p...'The Road to Serfdom' by Friedrich Hayek pretty much sums up what you've written, if you haven't you should read it.<br />When mainstream political parties become beset with self interest & greed, no matter what good they initially did, it's all undone when the party comes to a crashing halt.<br />People end up voting for demagogues out of shear emotive anger.thesorrowandthepitynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-32307022589796507582018-11-01T12:38:46.002+13:002018-11-01T12:38:46.002+13:00Bolsonaro might have been elected for the same rea...Bolsonaro might have been elected for the same reasons as Trump. <br /> Here as well as Europe, (Greece, Italy, France ) the problem that has developed with democracy is the same. The incumbent electoral choices do not reflect the wishes of the population. It doesn't matter who you vote for, the same people gain and the same people loose. The electorates everywhere turn to what seems to be a strongman who will at least take control of the unelected power brokers. It's the idea of an individual that can stand up to the deep state that appeals , almost irrespective of their philosophy. I'm sure this was why Trump was elected. I doubt Bolsonaro will change anything that helps the people who voted for him much.<br />D J SDavid Stonenoreply@blogger.com