tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post5308756660943020006..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: We are reminded that "competition" between places is a dangerous mythUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-30150394773483331752013-05-03T11:08:47.636+01:002013-05-03T11:08:47.636+01:00What you seem to be missing, and is also well-demo...What you seem to be missing, and is also well-demonstrated in your previous post about Shelter, is that the politics of envy is running rampant at the moment. It is the sentiment that socialism is utterly dependent upon – “I can’t have what you have, so why should you be allowed to have it?”<br /><br />The Frankfurt School of thinking has wormed is way into the entire ethos of the West. One of its principles is to ensure that everybody is beholden to the State for their jobs – this has nearly been achieved in Scotland, where about 95% of the workforce live off the tax-payers’ teat; this is also the dream of many in the rest of the UK; it is rapidly becoming the norm in Europe, and the “Land of the Free” is also following that path, with a disproportionately large armed services, the FBI, CIA, NSA, and many others, all for “homeland security”. Unless we can get a leader who has the strength to end it, civilisation as we know it is doomed; we will all be under the yoke of the all-powerful State, as it crushes us into lower and lower expectations, and destroys any hope of realisation of dreams, grinding us into deeper and deeper poverty, both material and spiritual. George Orwell was only out by a few decades.<br /><br />Radical Rodent<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com