Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Worse Off Than Years Ago
Nothing new about that. Far from our having grown richer since 1979, we have in fact grown vastly poorer: not yet two generations ago, a single manual wage provided the wage-earner, his wife and their several children with a quality of life unimaginable even on two professional salaries today. This impoverishment has been so rapid and so extreme that most people, including almost all politicians and commentators, simply refuse to acknowledge that it has happened. But it has indeed happened. And it is still going on.
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More homespun 1950s philosophy. Get back to St Helena then.
ReplyDeleteWoy Hattersley was on the radio the other night saying the golden age is always in the future, never in the past.
How very eschatological of him. Once a Catholic, I suppose. Like his tendencies towards pro-lifery.
ReplyDeleteChesterton presciently predicted that an age of unbelief would be an age of conservatism (in the worst sense), whereas for the orthodox “in the hearts of men, God has been put under the feet of Satan, so that there can always be a revolution; for a revolution is a restoration.” Furthermore, “A strict rule is not only necessary for ruling; it is also necessary for rebelling”, since “a fixed and familiar ideal is necessary to any sort of revolution.”
Notable that you cannot contradict the substance of this post. You know that it is correct. Everyone does.
You are very bad, annoying one of the glittering generation that got stoned in the 60s and rich in the 80s, complete with the authentic Eric Clapton attitude to race. Mentioning GKC won't have lowered Anon's blood pressure, either. Imagine if Anon actually read any Gilbert. His head would explode.
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