As we sit back watching and listening, our leaders are getting it monumentally wrong with their austerity programme. A game of 'chicken' is being played out between N Korea and the States. Then there's the horrors of wars in Syria and Iraq. It makes me wonder, couldn't they foresee the outcomes of all these events? Hasn't all this happened before, again, and again, and again?
I guess old George Santayana made a valid point when he said: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." However, he would have been nearer the mark had he said: "Those who do not remember the past condemn others to pay the price for their ignorance."
Those others being poor and disabled people in the UK who are paying a very high price for the repeated stupidity, or ideology, of our government.
Then of course, the USA and N Korea playing a very dicey game of dare on the world games board.
And finally, the poor bastards who by dint of geography happened to be born in a part of our planet that the world's powers decided to use as a fucking lethal chess board.
It isn't that they do not remember the past. No, it's because they know the past very well, but are hell bent on wasting the lives of others to make their point.
I guess old George Santayana made a valid point when he said: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." However, he would have been nearer the mark had he said: "Those who do not remember the past condemn others to pay the price for their ignorance."
Those others being poor and disabled people in the UK who are paying a very high price for the repeated stupidity, or ideology, of our government.
Then of course, the USA and N Korea playing a very dicey game of dare on the world games board.
And finally, the poor bastards who by dint of geography happened to be born in a part of our planet that the world's powers decided to use as a fucking lethal chess board.
It isn't that they do not remember the past. No, it's because they know the past very well, but are hell bent on wasting the lives of others to make their point.
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