Re: Italian Go - the latest twists
- From: Harry Sigerson <harrysigerson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:49:10 GMT
Henric,
The clients supported their patronusIsn't that now called 'right-wing' thinking; promoting the sort of
and helped him to stay in power in return for protection and other
favors that he could give them. That kind of structure was very
important everywhere in Europe from antiquity through the middle ages
and left remnants right into modern times, although it gradually faded
away when it became easier for individuals to support themselves on
their own and they felt more protected for instance by a strong state..
control implicit in religions and kingdoms. It's a lot less trouble for
the individual supplicant and subject just to do as he's told, no matter
what he's told, forelock tugging is easily learnt - except for the French
<allez France>, they seem to have had the flu jab. The r-w thing always
involves lots of chasubles, uniforms, regalia with plumes and ermine and
such; and of course the important genuflection element.
That's why it's so important to get hair-transplants when you're
trying to get your baldy self elected president. The last baldy PM we had
in the UK was Clement Attlee a good man but he'd need a re-thatching job
today.
Nowadays; that's much more important than what you've actually done
- in office; or so it seems to this jaded eye. And of course that
right-wing arrangement is such a good mulch in which to grow Fascism.
The only prophylactic, not cure - there isn't one - is a *broad* and
intensive education - and for the r-w that's yet another substance-abuse
they have to control 'properly'.
Education is not a cure; you can't save it up. What you've worked
out to be a good and accurate conclusion thanks to your education, can't
be stuck in the bank to leave in your will to your offspring. It's not
like money or shares. Kids have to start from scratch just like their
parents and there is no guarantee that they'll think things out in a good
way.
Style, money, *power*, in this day and age is what rules - via
televisually and movie-trained eyes.
It used to be that the r-w perps would push the boat out that bit
too far and we'd all wind up in a World War or some such stramash. At
least that would, re-initialise, things for the surviving ordinary
punters - well, for a while at least. There would be an attendant slogan
of some sort to look up to while you leant on your crutches, "A Land Fit
For Heroes" was one such.
Nowadays WWs are too big a risk for the powers-that-be so folk are
stuck with having to learn to think and that is so 'enervating', trop
fatiguant; worse still it's threatening. In Detroit '28 or so they used
four by twos to sort things out.
Next thing you know the educated proles know how to use the law.
Trouble is that sort of knowledge, the using of the law, is a very
marketable commodity - and we're back to money. Now, with the cutting
back of legal aid....
There's a wealthy Italian chap (a good pal of our Tony Blair) who
has been, over last few days, trying to persuade folk in his place that
he is the good guy. I wonder how successful he's been? Perhaps his
hair-job has not been good enough - I hope so.
I wonder which of FIGG or AGI is the more heavily backed by that
sort of 'power'; though perhaps on a smaller scale of course?
With the rapid growth of GO internationally, this 30+kyu, looks on
in wonder at the evidence of that growth as demonstrated by the Internet.
It's absolutely amazing. I bought a set of GO stones in the early
nineties, I made a goban from 16mm plywood. Only one of my friends, a
Dane, had any interest in the game. What we later learned was called Ko
puzzled us a bit <s> till we read Kaoru Iwamoto's little book a bit more
carefully.
So inexorably the stones and goban went into limbo. I'm a
self-employed Civil and Structural Engineer, I work from home and use a
PC - a lot. So the boom in GO the internet has demonstrated has amazed
me.
If you have an International, even World wide agency to promote
anything and that agency disagrees with some decision made by one of its
comprising regions, say the EGF, then democratically the reason for this
lack of agreement will have been made known to all the other regions.
I don't think that it would be inconsistent for the EGF in its turn
to then disseminate this disagreement within its body politic - Europe -
on whatever were the points in question. Then they have to agree on what
action to take.
I don't' know if the constituent members of the EGF participated in
chewing this particular piece of hard nougat. I suppose they have been;
though from the discussions on this newsgroup it seems indigestible.
The last thing you want to do is to dance attendance on recalcitrant
would-be or de-facto members. Once you start that you are as the saying
goes neither fish nor fowl. It's epaulet ripping-off and sword-breaking
time. Seven plus years is a long time and any known machinations during
that time cannot be forgotten about.
At least not unless you know that it doesn't matter what you've
done, that your place in the sun is assured - from above.
Harry.
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