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5 responses to “Are you convinced yet, that our Government is entirely composed of idiots?”
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Tom, you are beginning to sound like a Tory blogger!
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I wanted tomake a smart comment about this so I looked up idiot on Wikipedia.
“Idiot” was originally used in ancient Greek city-states to refer to people who were overly concerned with their own self-interest and ignored the needs of the community. Declining to take part in public life, such as (semi-)democratic government of the polis (city state), such as the Athenian democracy, was considered dishonorable. “Idiots” were seen as having bad judgment in public and political matters.
Mmmm. So this means they are and they are not. They are because they are overly concerned with their own self-interest and ignore the needs of the community. Plus they have bad judgment in public and political matters. They are not because they get involved in politics which is what the original intention was.
However, The being an idiot part easily outweighs the public contribution part.
So ‘Yes’. I’m convinced. Funny before I even looked it up I was sure what the answer would be.
btw: Your comment entry page refreshes every few minutes and sometimes I lose my comments.LikeLike
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Dave, I am sorry you are having problems. What browser are you using?
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Not just idiots, but authoritarian, interfering, annoying, dangerous fuckwits.
I’d go and wear a red nose on principle there, but I want to go on holiday to America in a couple of years and having being arrested makes it rather problematic.
Tossers, the lot of them. I can understand the appeal of the French 1789 approach to summary justice more each passing year.LikeLike
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Tom, IE6. But don’t worry about it. If anyone hits a problem it will be me. Seems that you only have a certain time to type before it refreshes. My refresh always clears the fields. So I need to type quicker or work offline.
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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