Thanks for posting this Lou. I was struck in particular by his reference to the destruction of the British Mandarinate by the Thatcherites. Interestingly this was played out on television in the comic series Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister (1980-88). Not surprisingly they were Thatcher's favourite programs.
What Thatcher ushered in was of course a craven subservience on the US where in the celebrated words of the British Ambassador, Christopher Meyer, he was told to "Get up the arse of the White House and stay there". This attitude in turn spun off fantasy solutions such as that portrayed in the execrable Love Actually (2003) where the Prime Minister of Britain somehow gets the courage to stand up to the American President's sleazy advances to the Prime Minister's favorite female. What I wonder has been happeningd in Australia, with the ruling elites? I know that Australia's sycophancy towards the USA had a similar fantasy solution in the hugely successful Crocodile Dundee (1986), where the macho hunter from Down Under lays siege to the effete of New York. I guess that the necessary sycophancy towards the US became particularly galling and humiliating for the elites of Britain and Australia during the time of George W. Bush. Obama's election must have come as a something of a relief. He at least could finish a sentence. However all that relief is surely beginning to wear a little thin as the glister surrounding Obama fades but that is another topic... regards Gary ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
