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Sunday, 20 November 2011
Occupy movement gets closer to a nap hand.
I called round to pay my respects to the Bank Of Ideas yesterday. In fact with a prile of occupations in the capital already I'm expecting the Occupy movement to have achieved a nap hand by Xmas. Top work comrades! Having made my way to Sun Street via St Paul's and Finsbury Square I arrived just in time for the tail end of an interesting talk by John Weeks. During a Q&A session Weeks pointed out that we should not confuse what we predict will happen over the next couple of years with what we might want to happen and he offered a note of caution to those who are convinced that some kind of utopia will emerge from the approaching financial apocalypse. It's a note of caution that might have been taken on board by the author of the leaflet that I picked up when leaving. In part it said. "Let it be well understood and widely known - top-down, coercive diktat by disproportionately paid upper echelons of all centralised undemocratic hierarchical organisations and systems of oppressive control - both financial and government - is well past it's sell-by date." Yeah! If only.
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Thanks for the John Weeks link - never read him b4 now - but shall do so ....
... and here's Adam Curtis' latest ramble which is sort of on the same lines of reality & realism and pessism v optimism plus his usual trip down memory lane.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/10/dream_on.html
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