Reflections10th July
On my Mind
Citizens, Pirates, and Messages in Bottles
This has been as surreal a week as I can remember (and I have enough years to remember rather a lot). It feels rather like waking up to find that we've been become complicit in some giant , sophisticated Ponzi scheme covering our politics and economy, and have just recognised it for what it is.
I feel we have allowed ourselves to be gradually drawn, ever deeper, over decades into a web of debt fuelled promises and have now realised that there's no new cohort of the gullible to buy the next tranche. I think those of us who have had the luxury of time have rather abused it, hoping that we'll have time to do tomorrow what we really know we should have done at the time. It's not a comfortable feeling.
Meanwhile, the people at the top of the pyramid have squirrelled their proceeds away somewhere warm and inaccessible and when we ask where what they promised is, shrug their shoulders and proffer excuses f…
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