Visiting my local Waterstones just now - something I don't often do, being an inveterate web buyer - I was met a by a stand piled high with recently published volumes under the blazing headline, 'Science v Religion', with an exhortation to all of us to take our sides in the 'great debate'. Bryan, it's all your fault - look what this blog has unleashed...
Meanwhille, I note that Brown has a two-word mission statement - 'Progressive consensus'. Am I alone in feeling a chill run down my spine?
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Just look at Brown's gorging himself on New World Order mentions in the linked speech, and one should start delving into the history of this phrase & why heads of the world are really using it. New World Order/ Novus Ordo Seclorum & is one really so dumb and as to imagine these Browns, Bushes, etc are filled with a burning ideological drive to create a happy world for us all.
ReplyDeleteHe says in the piece that 'what I believe is our destiny of success in this New World Order.' So prophetic believers in glorious unspecified destinies are back in as political leaders. Wonderful.
ReplyDeleteAnd that weasel word 'consensus' employed as a euphemism for closing down all other options, placing all other views firmly beyond the pale of civilised discourse...
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ReplyDeletePerhaps we should go for regressive dissent.
ReplyDeleteDon't blame Bryan, Nige, it's your doing. They may have stacked them all together in one place in your bookstore, but in mine they're all mixed up in the ornithology section.
ReplyDeleteApart from this strange world of political speech crimes, has any of us in normal, humble life ever heard anyone use a phrase like progressive consensus? As Victor Pelevin said, 'A politician is phenomenologically a television programme,' and quite a crap television programme the politician always is.
ReplyDeleteIs the progressive consensus a 3rd way, a la Clinton, or a new 4th way?
ReplyDeleteI doubt that, Gordon. When the steak is rancid, best sell the sizzle. (Apologies to Elmer Wheeler)
ReplyDeleteBrown has used the phrase "progressive consensus" too many times too mention. Translated into english it simply means keeping the conservatives out of power. Talk about aiming low...
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