The Age of Consent

Author	Topic: The Age of Consent
Jigga Infiltrator Member # 1823	written Saturday, June 21 2003 08:27 Profile Homepage #0 Possibly out now, by George Monbiot. Summarised here and here. Discuss. -------------------- Riot Shields Voodoo Economics It's just business Cattle prods And the IMF I trust I can rely on your vote Posts: 530 | Registered: Sunday, September 1 2002 07:00
X Shaper Member # 496	written Sunday, June 22 2003 05:17 Profile #1 I know George Monbiot, a very reluctant radical reverting to his upper class twit routes alongside the rather more influential Zac Goldsmith (The Ecologist). I remember chasing the spazzy then-Home Secretary Jack 'Boot' Straw down Brighton sea front some years ago too, forcing him to hide in a hotel. That's the sot of pressure they understand, not Georgey-boy crawling back up his own Oxbridge fundament. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00
Jigga Infiltrator Member # 1823	written Sunday, June 22 2003 06:28 Profile Homepage #2 What have his roots got to do with his beliefs and opinions, and how valid they are? And I fail to see how Straw has 'understood' your 'chasing' him down the Brighton sea front - it hasn't changed his policies or views one bit - if anything he's now more of a right wing idiot than before. -------------------- Riot Shields Voodoo Economics It's just business Cattle prods And the IMF I trust I can rely on your vote Posts: 530 | Registered: Sunday, September 1 2002 07:00
Sir David Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Member # 919	written Sunday, June 22 2003 11:18 Profile #3 I wouldn't mind the term "right-wing idiot" so much if it weren't used so often here, and if it weren't considered redundant on Spiderweb... -------------------- And though the musicians would die, the music would live on in the imaginations of all who heard it. -The Last Pendragon TEH CONSPIRACY IZ ALL Les forum de la chance. In case of emergency, break glass. Posts: 3351 | Registered: Saturday, April 6 2002 08:00
X Shaper Member # 496	written Monday, June 23 2003 04:26 Profile #4 People's backgrounds are very formative - what is unthinkable from one is not from another. It's understandable, therefore, that George is alienated from the anti-globalisation miliants he uses for book promotions, etc, as he sees the globalisers as 'people we can do business with' in a typical posh clubby way. They probably all went to the same school. As to 'influencing decision-makers', if they are not taught that their policies have (personal) consequences, they are likely to continue doing what they like and trusting to spin doctors to 'sell policy' thereafter (Blair syndrome). Most people with that sort of mentality could do with boot-delivered reminders of the nature of reality generally and their own physicality particularly on occassion. Posts: 2333 | Registered: Monday, January 7 2002 08:00