tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post404244537147620754..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: Show Trials of Gilded YouthGeorge Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-176780835803918412009-08-02T09:41:40.721+01:002009-08-02T09:41:40.721+01:00Thanks KT. I generally agree. I would only say the...Thanks KT. I generally agree. I would only say the following.<br /><br />There are degrees of rottenness. I am not sure the pure government exists though we should certainly try to get the best we can. That best will depend on what being best consists of- what a good government should attempt to achieve.<br /><br />The current government - and its alternative - have, I think, a high rottenness count. But I can't quite believe that the qualities exhibited by a government, or any properly elected body of representatives, including the opposition, is entirely detached from the qualities of the electorate. The question is not whether that is so or not (a degree of scepticism and, possibly even misanthropy, is occasionally useful) but whether we have hope of improvement. I think we should. It is, after all, not too difficult to analyse a state of rottenness and to resolve (however successfully) to do otherwise.<br /><br />Purity is a different matter. There is a high price to be paid for purity, the top being the cost of the regular purge: by whom, of whom? Plenty of precedents for that, and they quickly lead to rottenness at the very top. I don't go for ideological purity either.<br /><br />But now I am beginning to sound faintly worthy - not a good sound - and besides the argument here sounds like another post, a different one. This one was just a form of vomiting by other means.<br /><br />The second part of the post on assisted suicide (below) touches on that possible other argument.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-43328213918781917722009-08-02T08:03:32.310+01:002009-08-02T08:03:32.310+01:00His mate George Galloway is another one, he regula...His mate George Galloway is another one, he regularly has a proud stalinist on his show and they giggle away like it was such a hoot.<br /><br />The problem is their analysis of what is rotten with our government I agree with. I don't think however this makes the other side right, like the anti Nazis becoming communists because they felt they were its most vigorous opponents.ktnoreply@blogger.com