Panto season starts early: Covid, unlike Cinderella, only comes out at midnight. Apparently. Out and about in Dublin. If the game is truly rigged which way to go: extreme right or left?
Panto season starts early: Covid, unlike Cinderella, only comes out at midnight. Apparently. Out and about in Dublin. If the game is truly rigged which way to go: extreme right or left?
Hi Jim and Chris. Very good podcast. Regarding the serfdom life I'm very interested in your thoughts on how it manifests on the right with Steve Bannon and on the left with Jeremy Corbyn. I'd agree that right now the right seems to have the upper hand but it also seems to be an explosion of anger that is being tapped into by rich elites. Trump, Johnson and Bannon are all very well off. And in this case the leadership is a con job just grifting on the anger of folks who feel hopeless. I don't see the organisation or the long term goals that we have seen in right wing movements in Europe in the past. As inept a campaigner that Corbyn was for the UK general election in 2019 the difference it seems is that they are after more than channelling anger. They have clear goals on reordering society, for instance nationalisation of transport and energy systems, pulling away from use/ownership of nuclear weapons, to name two. One side appears to want to burn it all to the ground without a really coherent plan of building it up, the other appears to want to keep society more or less intact but to change who benefits. My question is which is likely to succeed? It's easier to burn than build but it's also a lot more traumatic.
Hi Jim and Chris. Very good podcast. Regarding the serfdom life I'm very interested in your thoughts on how it manifests on the right with Steve Bannon and on the left with Jeremy Corbyn. I'd agree that right now the right seems to have the upper hand but it also seems to be an explosion of anger that is being tapped into by rich elites. Trump, Johnson and Bannon are all very well off. And in this case the leadership is a con job just grifting on the anger of folks who feel hopeless. I don't see the organisation or the long term goals that we have seen in right wing movements in Europe in the past. As inept a campaigner that Corbyn was for the UK general election in 2019 the difference it seems is that they are after more than channelling anger. They have clear goals on reordering society, for instance nationalisation of transport and energy systems, pulling away from use/ownership of nuclear weapons, to name two. One side appears to want to burn it all to the ground without a really coherent plan of building it up, the other appears to want to keep society more or less intact but to change who benefits. My question is which is likely to succeed? It's easier to burn than build but it's also a lot more traumatic.
Loved the expressions of delight at the start Re meeting for lunch after 23 months … very human indeed.
Your comments (esp Chris’s) Re covid restrictions in Ireland were just classic!!
Enjoyable podcast as always.