“Copenhagen is poised to achieve a profound historical transformation: reversing the road we have travelled for 200 years.” [1]
I regret to note that the prime minister does not have in mind the overthrow of public-bureaucratic government and the restoration of the ancien régime. Unfortunately the one-eyed klepto-visionary is having another fit of “moral passion” at the prospect of “a great global project of mutual ambition”, [2] which of course is forward down the road which we have been urged to travel by the self-declared friends of humanity for the last two-hundred years. Well, he calls it “moral passion”, whatever that means, but to me it seems more like the slavering of a butcher’s dog when sensing that dinner-time is approaching at last.
[1] Gordon Brown, “Copenhagen must be a turning point. Our children won’t forgive us if we fail”, Comment is Free (The Guardian’s weblog), 6th December 2009.
[2] Ibid.
8 comments:
I have a dream:
Herewith we declare within the next 60 years to reduce the population of human beings on earth to 50 percent of the population in 1350.
Let's hope that some terrorist loonies frighten the delegates out of flying and they all have to walk home.
Walk home? Limosines surely.
Sugar in the petrol tanks, old boy. Only organic sugar, though.
Brown's is a remarkable statement. I only regret the Prime Minister of America did not make it. He surely believes it also.
moral and passion
Two words having little to do with Gordon Brown.
James,
Passion has much to do with Gordon Brown, and reason very little.
Passion in their politicians is one of the last things a reasonable polity wants.
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