I have never seen a man whose bearing was so provoking and intolerable. To no opinion, which differed from his, he accorded the honour of even a condescending consideration. Everyone who contradicted him he treated with abject contempt; every argument that he did not like he answered with either biting scorn at the unfathomable ignorance that had prompted it, or with opprobrious aspersions upon the motives of him who had advanced it.
Carl Schurtz on Karl Marx, quoted in Thomas Sowell.
Apparently the British Library is now in Ely.
The latest entry ‘Toning down the unreasonable comments on this blog’ is just too good not to mention:
So why have I been robust? Simply because I know that the way in which I can guarantee that I will be ignored is by asking nicely and politely for change. Experience has proven that nothing is ever given up by those with power unless unreasonable people demand it from them, with those unreasonable people being willing to upset a few people along the way.
I am quite happy to be unreasonable.
but apparently not happy to be held up to ridicule by anyone as a result of being unreasonable?
I have no desire for power for myself. I have no reason as a consequence to appease those who might give it to me. I am, instead, only interested in effecting change. And since the only way in which it seems I can achieve this is by writing, and by sometimes being unreasonable, then that is precisely what I will be.
Hence his endless grifting, constant demands for additional funding or access to pension sinecures – happy to labour in relative anonymity…
The green new deal is the biggest alternative economic narrative that is available to the world today, albeit that most of those with power still wish to ignore that fact.
What hallucinogen is he smoking or alternatively ingesting and how can I get hold of some?
And even when it comes to official statistics, the Office for National statistics now publishes a monthly analysis of the Bank of England’s so-called contribution to the national debt, which is entirely because of discussion that took place on this blog.
If the ONS is basing anything on the witterings of someone who had a ringer take his accountancy exams and managed to get a ban from every hostelry in Downham Market it’s little wonder we’re up the creek.
It’s a post so utterly lacking in self awareness you have to wonder if we are dealing with satire that would rival Swift…
Fitting that the origin of so much suffering and misery was a ghastly little cunt.
Presumably there was insufficient Victorian ragging from 19th Century Worstalls.
It’s a post so utterly lacking in self awareness you have to wonder if we are dealing with satire that would rival Swift…
Poe’s Law: an adage of Internet culture saying that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parody of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied.
Or vice versa in the tuberous case.
So why have I been robust? Simply because I know that the way in which I can guarantee that I will be ignored is by asking nicely and politely for change.
Oh no, he’s one of those aggressive beggars on the tube.
“I have no desire for power for myself. … I am, instead, only interested in effecting change.“
I’ve written and deleted about half a dozen sarky comments about this but, honestly, it speaks for itself.
@ Sam Duncan
Effecting change is an exercise of power.
So, yes.