all these vids really make one feel all warm and fuzzy about capitalism don't they? Thank g_d we have men and women of intelligence and high morals looking out for us plebes....
Amongst other things, they serve to confirm my long-held suspicion that most politicians really don’t have the foggiest idea what they’re up to half the time (if not more). They certainly come off looking pretty hapless for all their clever scheming, irrespective of their ideology.
I love this Documentary, for it sums-up many of the reasons I removed myself from Formal Politics and Public Life in the early 1990's.
* Pension Funds engaged in Corporate asset-stripping and hyper-rationalisation. Much irony there ...
* Goldsmith's point about the "Divorce of Corporations from National Life in order to satisfy economic doctrine" was and is, bang-on - and has been since the proliferation of the modern idea of Free Trade.
* In the end, Goldsmith and his Clermount Pals come to fight globalisation as they are "inspired by the past and afraid of the future." They became traditional Tories in the end. Too late it seems.
* Elliott of the Guardian makes the final and most salient point in stating that "politicians have been put to sleep by the markets." I saw this in person during my time in Ottawa during the mid-1980's and this set me on the path of disillusionment with formal politics.
Sssshhhh. Remember, this ISN'T blogging! I'm just a "video sherpa" or something like that.
ReplyDeleteall these vids really make one feel all warm and fuzzy about capitalism don't they? Thank g_d we have men and women of intelligence and high morals looking out for us plebes....
ReplyDeleteAmongst other things, they serve to confirm my long-held suspicion that most politicians really don’t have the foggiest idea what they’re up to half the time (if not more). They certainly come off looking pretty hapless for all their clever scheming, irrespective of their ideology.
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ReplyDeleteI love this Documentary, for it sums-up many of the reasons I removed myself from Formal Politics and Public Life in the early 1990's.
* Pension Funds engaged in Corporate asset-stripping and hyper-rationalisation. Much irony there ...
* Goldsmith's point about the "Divorce of Corporations from National Life in order to satisfy economic doctrine" was and is, bang-on - and has been since the proliferation of the modern idea of Free Trade.
* In the end, Goldsmith and his Clermount Pals come to fight globalisation as they are "inspired by the past and afraid of the future." They became traditional Tories in the end. Too late it seems.
* Elliott of the Guardian makes the final and most salient point in stating that "politicians have been put to sleep by the markets." I saw this in person during my time in Ottawa during the mid-1980's and this set me on the path of disillusionment with formal politics.