Seems like sound advice. Boy - is he mad!
Soo xx
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Canât blame him, really: his profession is being used by the guys in the black hats for their own purposes, and the people who will get hurt as a result are members of his profession rather than the guys in the black hats. Outrage is a proper reaction, really.
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Donât know if this is the right place for this but
The Tweet was taken down almost instantly but I screenshotted it.
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AttaTFM!
For the screenshotting, for the avoidance of doubt
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The link works too. Er, so Iâm told.
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Following these guys is interesting!
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When your partyâs entire political culture has been remade into âmen can do whatever they like as long as theyâre powerful enoughâ, why is anyone even surprised that men are doing whatever they like?
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It does have to be said that if what powerful men like to do is on the whole benign towards the rest of humanity, or does no harm, we tend not to notice. Or if it is for example trying to eradicate a disease, we tend to mock at the venture and mention at intervals that it hasnât succeeded.
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I canât say Iâve noticed that being much of a Thing, currently.
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Of course you havenât: it is never remarked upon or reported.
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Ah, you think itâs confirmation bias. I think itâs late-stage capitalism.
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You have a case of late-stage capitalism? Iâm sure one can get pills against that.
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âWhat a great thing that (billionaire X) is funding (project I favour).â Sure, but that funding is at their whim: when they see a new shiny or just get bored, itâll go away. Itâs not a replacement for long-term funding of projects that lots of people think might have actual use: that, in theory, is what democratic governments are for.
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The point I was making is that if a rich and powerful man has chosen quietly to endow half-a-dozen scholarships to a good school for people who otherwise couldnât afford to go there, or fund a swimming-pool in a bad area which would otherwise have had to close, or set up a trust to keep a group of houses for the seriously poor in good nick, it is not commented on. (I knew examples of each of these in a town where I lived for a while.) The first we are likely to hear about it in the news is if someone decides his wealth had anything to do with slavery (not if it had anything to do with Lancashire cotton-mills in which it was only indigenes who died of working there, though) and he must be vilified and his works cast down.
Quick: which London entrepreneur gave $100,000,000 towards the development of prosthetic limbs?
Which London philanthropist has given ÂŁ33.9 million for education, children and social causes in East Africa?
What have Martin and Diana Ballinger done for whom, and what was the trust they set up to continue that work after Martinâs death?
What has Sir Tom Hunter done for Scotland and for sub-Saharan Africa?
Those examples are the result of a five minute websearch, but how many people do that rather than just read headlines?
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Well, I donât, not when what Iâm thinking about is political culture and where real economic power resides. Câest magnifique, etc.
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Admirable as they may be, the fact remains that in a developed society such gestures should be unnecessary. Things like health, education, housing and essential infrastructure shouldnât depend on the whim of individuals.
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True, but not really relevant to my point, which was âif what powerful men like to do is on the whole benign towards the rest of humanity, or does no harm, we tend not to noticeâ.
We donât, because the press etc say nothing about it. We are never told about people behaving better than they have to, only about people behaving worse.
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And all this stemming from a mention of a story about feral poultryâŚ
Whoâd have thunk it?
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Anyone whoâd been reading Joeâs reports?
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Our âlocalâ football club is owned by murdering barstewards. Just sayinâ.
Soo xx
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