I was in the new Bristol shopping centre with my youngest son who is back from University for the weekend. There was a bit of a commotion going out side Barclays, by Anarchists for more State Intervention (Anarchists ??)
After a lot of pushing and shoving with the Police they decided to target Lloyds Bank next, then Nationwide (this is a mutual not a bank you idiots) then they started running through the shopping centre yelling and shouting for what they were worth, an activity called steaming, this resulted in some other ne'erdowells joining in and shops starting to close their doors in case the guardians of the revolution decided to liberate their goods.
Without a hint of irony, members of the Socialist Workers Party stood by trying to sell their newspapers. The latest in fashionable chic is apparently a Palestinian scarf (denotes level of righteousness) a soviet era military fur hat with cap badge whilst shouting for freedom (remember gulags) and troops out of Afghanistan (Soviet troops being ok in Afghanistan then) topped off with a Serbian army surplus wintercoat (don't even go there)
As Lenin said 'useful fools'.
Highlight of the day - 'Anarchist' withdrawing £50 from HSBC cash point, without the hint of irony.
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Capitalism has made them (us?) so comfortable they don't realise what they are trying to destroy is their own survival as they understand it.
It is interesting how we seem to be primed, somehow, to destroy the things we need.
If I may, I link to a piece at Pajamas Media:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/a-case-of-possession/?singlepage=true
'Anarchists' for more state intervention? Someone needs to do an airdrop of dictionaries.
What do you have against the Serbs?
I'm reminded of this talk by Ayn Rand about how our culture is either value-free, or profoundly negative:
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reg_ar_deprivation
If our art and discourse does not include the admiration of positive values, how is the behavior Andrew talks about a surprise?
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