Edited by Neil Anderson, Friday, 17 May 2013, 23:38
2013–05–17
lax
I haven’t updated this blog lately, because I was busy, because I was tired, basically because I couldn’t be bothered. I hate that about me; this, “when things get hard I’ll flee” a rational for my behavioural laziness. Why is it that when I need to do stuff I end up doing doing squat?
I’m hard on myself because I know that I’m I a skivving loser who has just enough savvy to get away with it, which is OK in your daily, rather less satisfying when you actually want something.
That’s enough about me and my weak horrors; I have larger matters on my mind.
I sense a disruption in the force—people are dropping out because they can no longer afford courses. This is crass; this university of ours was meant to be for anyone, now it’s just another greedy red-brick: you give me money…I’ll give you a degree. [And a massive debt]
The opportunity to learn isn’t something that should be treated like a commodity, and yet it is. Like oil, or mortgages, or just about anything that they can get away with; the rich are cornering this market—you can be as clever as you want but if you can’t pay then you are stupider than the most stupid of their stupid offspring.
so what to do?
Well I was rather taken with the treatment meted out to the racist-stupidarian Nigel Farage in Edinburgh yesterday, personal-charm doesn’t excuse a blatent racist agenda. Such a thing is not popular in Scotland. Every single one of us knows somebody who is obviously Scottish who doesn’t think/look like us, the vast majority of us see this as a good thing. Pro or anti, we all know that we are all in this together and if you are here you have a vote.
I don’t like this way of doing politics but Farage opened himself up to this, and to complain that the complainers were Fascist was moronic. Stupid man. Stupid us for treating him as anything other that a complete… git? No, Evil bastard who mocks the police but feels entitled to call them when things go wrong. A shit of the deepest water.
My point is that Farage will have to think more carefully the next time he spouts his carefully impersonal hate at a non-defined non-voting hate group. Now that he realizes that hate is catching and that he may be a target he may think twice next time. I doubt it. The frothing stupidity of his reaction speaks volumes.
I suppose that what I am saying is that the time has come to put aside our manners, the time has come to shout the truth, as the Edinburgh students shouted, “evil racist baw-bag ”.
The time has come for our words to be heard by those who will not listen.
soz
2013–05–17
lax
I haven’t updated this blog lately, because I was busy, because I was tired, basically because I couldn’t be bothered. I hate that about me; this, “when things get hard I’ll flee” a rational for my behavioural laziness. Why is it that when I need to do stuff I end up doing doing squat?
I’m hard on myself because I know that I’m I a skivving loser who has just enough savvy to get away with it, which is OK in your daily, rather less satisfying when you actually want something.
That’s enough about me and my weak horrors; I have larger matters on my mind.
I sense a disruption in the force—people are dropping out because they can no longer afford courses. This is crass; this university of ours was meant to be for anyone, now it’s just another greedy red-brick: you give me money…I’ll give you a degree. [And a massive debt]
The opportunity to learn isn’t something that should be treated like a commodity, and yet it is. Like oil, or mortgages, or just about anything that they can get away with; the rich are cornering this market—you can be as clever as you want but if you can’t pay then you are stupider than the most stupid of their stupid offspring.
so what to do?
Well I was rather taken with the treatment meted out to the racist-stupidarian Nigel Farage in Edinburgh yesterday, personal-charm doesn’t excuse a blatent racist agenda. Such a thing is not popular in Scotland. Every single one of us knows somebody who is obviously Scottish who doesn’t think/look like us, the vast majority of us see this as a good thing. Pro or anti, we all know that we are all in this together and if you are here you have a vote.
I don’t like this way of doing politics but Farage opened himself up to this, and to complain that the complainers were Fascist was moronic. Stupid man. Stupid us for treating him as anything other that a complete… git? No, Evil bastard who mocks the police but feels entitled to call them when things go wrong. A shit of the deepest water.
My point is that Farage will have to think more carefully the next time he spouts his carefully impersonal hate at a non-defined non-voting hate group. Now that he realizes that hate is catching and that he may be a target he may think twice next time. I doubt it. The frothing stupidity of his reaction speaks volumes.
I suppose that what I am saying is that the time has come to put aside our manners, the time has come to shout the truth, as the Edinburgh students shouted, “evil racist baw-bag ”.
The time has come for our words to be heard by those who will not listen.