So was it all a metaphor for Thatcher's reign?
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KingNee — 9 years ago(May 25, 2016 04:50 PM)
Socialism without responsibility IS anarchy.
If people see it as an easy fix to get what they want without giving anything back; The whole thing collapses.
Why do you think the Nordic countries aren't particularly happy about 100s of thousands of immigrants roaming in to be on welfare for the rest of their lives. (They will be, no matter what some lying hippie study is telling you about cultural enrichment)
Why do you think they came here and not other closer countries?
"You'll be taking a soul train straight to a disco inferno where you never can say goodbye!" -
DaliParton — 9 years ago(July 10, 2016 09:03 PM)
Socialism without responsibility IS anarchy.
Pretty much any economic system without good governance results in failure. Even the libertarian concept of just leaving it up to the individual actors encourages failure because power tends to accrue to the unaccountable (or maybe the powerful strive to become unaccountable). -
Squeeth2 — 9 years ago(July 26, 2016 02:24 PM)
No it isn't, socialism, communism, liberalism, fascism and nazism are all carbuncles on society's ar/se. Anarchism is the only political philosophy that's fundamentally different because anarchists want rid of the boss class and their state. We want a society of laws instead.
Marlon, Claudia & Dimby the cats 1989-2010. Clio the cat, July 1997 - 1 May 2016. -
tiggersuk — 9 years ago(July 25, 2016 11:41 AM)
Kate would clearly be a model citizen in Orwell's 1984 and sleeps on her Margaret Thatcher pillow and has posters on her wall Thatcher was a traitor and a puppet for her banker masters and wealthy elite families just like all the PMs who came before her and after and i dare say those to yet come.. there has never been a mainstream cabinet level politician who has been working for the good of the British people ever! they are all a mixture of narcissists, psychopaths, deviants, chancers and the criminally insane total vermin each and every one and i'm sure it's just the same in the US
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Two-HeadedBoy — 9 years ago(December 05, 2016 05:01 PM)
Just asking, on a similar subject - did anyone else pick up on that nod to Harold Wilson at the end? Toby's sitting there listening to Thatcher talk, and then puts a pipe in his mouth
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PoppyTransfusion — 9 years ago(December 10, 2016 02:12 PM)
The epilogue from Margaret Thatcher is Wheatley's wry spin on Ballard's story where, what Ballard satirises, came to pass with Thatcher. I'm afraid Kate's comments represent her viewpoint and not the truth of state in the UK then or now.
Laing's prologue:
Sometimes he found it hard to believe they were not living in a future that had already taken place
Ever tried, ever failed?
No matter.
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Woodyanders — 2 years ago(September 22, 2023 12:13 AM)
It's more a metaphor or allegory on the social caste system in England where there's a fierce delineation between the haves and have nots.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.