two short reflections on Brian's point on the corporate state:
the alt.right's libertarian situationism (which Brits recognise as Dominic
Cummings' cash from chaos doctrine) is an extension of Mount Pelerin's belief
that the state should a) shrink and b) be subject to 'law' - but clearly not
l
Obviously I agree with David in this thread. Global metabolic disruptions
like the pandemic (and the coming climate-driven storms, famines, etc)
require a renewed focus on large-scale collective action - not just
intellectually, but also existentially. This was obvious with the
production and distr
Concerning...
> Le 12 févr. 2022 à 14:43, David Garcia
> a écrit :
>
> Actually Joseph I think quite a lot is new… going as far back as November
> 2020 I wrote post which pointed to the proposition that before the pandemic
> if anyone had suggested that under conditions, other than war, that
ning. So even for Tories on the right of
> the party any return to the old fiscal narrative will be pretty much
> impossible. And Johnson has been quicker to recognise this than other Tories.
> Despite Thatcherite n
> ostalgia there can be no going back to the Cameron Osbourne res
Joseph Rabie wrote:
Concerning...
A new and intense awareness of mutual dependency and the collective agency of
which we are capable was the great revelation of the pandemic and our only hope
of survival.
This is not new, it has always been the case in times of disaster. This
Is there a danger of seeing a lot of this as specific to Johnson; that
he is somehow a special character or case?
In Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England (2021),
Richard Beard refers to the work of the psychoanalyst Joy Schaverien and
her 2015 volume Boarding School Syndrome
I do wonder, insofar as Boris Johnson is concerned, how much sex has to do with
it all. In a biographical documentary shown on the Arte TV station, his use of
comic behaviour and witty repartee at school (Eton) and university (Oxford),
clearly appeared to be organised around garnering the sort o
Many thanks Brian and Patrice… When Johnson came on TV as head of state and did
not advise but ‘instructed’ me, my family and the rest of the country to ‘lock
down’ I experienced the actual fact and reality of state power as never before.
Much as I despise Johnson and all his works I supported t
Aloha,
Let me (allow me to) take Brian's rejoinder as an opportunity to address
David's and his argument in face of the (dangerous) shenanigans in 10, Clowning
Street (-Marina Hyde, TG) ... and beyond.
There is absolutely no doubt that Boris Johnson is a very 'special' character
and political
