Notes and Comments: No. 5

NOTES:

Nothing notable to note.

COMMENTS:

I think I’m going to give up commenting on these comment sites like CiF. After reading this, I think I agree with him. Therefore, these below will be the last comments I make on the sites, but I will – instead - make them into ‘proper’ blog articles, or brief mentions in Notes & Comments, only here (linking back to the original articles, of course) on this site.

The root of terror is clear

My comment:

You can’t help smiling though when you see the all the Right-on Guardianistas rushing like lemmings to disassociate themselves from the American-Western-Hegemonic-Imperialist-Consumerist-Zionist* conspiracy and falling headlong into the ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’ mindset so common to the useful idiot. For it should be - at least – becoming obvious to even the most head-in-the-clouds utopianist groovy leftie that the ‘Palestinian Issue’ will never be ‘solved’ as long as it stays so useful to the vested interests in the area (and no, I don’t mean the ‘evil Americans’ or the (just as) ‘evil Israelis’) on both a domestic and international strategic level.

The Palestinians are just the pawns (yet more useful idiots) in a much bigger game, a diversion. While it is, undoubtedly, tragic for the Palestinians - and the Israelis too, of course – to be caught up in all the pointless and useless violence, we should not allow ourselves to be fooled into thinking it is a root cause of anything other than its own pointless self-perpetuation.

*sorry if I missed anything out – for example, I’m taking it as read that we ALL realise this is all down to the problems inherent in the male-dominated patriarchy that is the military-industrial hegemony behind the deliberately provocative creation of Israel.

Why voting is a waste of time

My comment:

Although, the danger is – as New Laborg have amply demonstrated – that when the basics are more or less sorted, as you rightly say, the politicians start casting around for something else to do in order to justify their continued existence. This results in all the unnecessary, pointless and often counter-productive legislation they have produced over the last few years.

Also the politics of management leads to us being saddled with the sub-middle-management mediocrities we are currently encumbered with in all the parties, who – it seems – quite simply don’t seem to understand that we don’t vote for them because we don’t want, or like, them.