tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post4160818429090136985..comments2023-10-01T16:53:17.274+01:00Comments on Cicero's Songs: Fighting the Battle for FreedomCicerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02090838836212624633noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-10599076342988974282011-05-09T18:49:13.625+01:002011-05-09T18:49:13.625+01:00It seems to me that following the US has been a di...It seems to me that following the US has been a disaster for the Anglosphere. They have been more destructive to our culture than a horde of rampaging Bolsheviks. Former East European nations and Baltic states are in culturally much better shape than we are.<br />Look to a German reawakening. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13335943" rel="nofollow">The world's second largest exporter</a>, they also have very good <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality" rel="nofollow">income-equality</a> as do nearly all the former Axis countries and their former allies.AngloAmerikanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002362092073890146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-70041832617043942282011-04-26T21:01:45.491+01:002011-04-26T21:01:45.491+01:00Coming late to this post I would not normally comm...Coming late to this post I would not normally comment Cicero. One of your points however demanded that I suported it.<br /><br />You mention our dependence on (enslavement by?) technology and how the built in security vulnerabilities of the intenet weaken our society.<br /><br />As a former computer pro I have been screaming about the folly of the 'everyone can do everything' attitude to the net for a long time.<br /><br />Earlier today I was trying to research the activities of a very secretive corporation Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) to write a blog on how they use their very powerful position in the global food market to manipulate commodity prices.<br /><br />When at last a search threw up a link to a report critical of ADM on following it I was directed to a browser hijacker that passed standard security software and tried to load some very irritating programmes on my hard drive.<br /><br />Fortunately my self written security routines stopped it and I only had to spend half an hour getting rid of the rootkit.<br /><br />It is an example though of how the internet, so often presented as a tool of democracy is in fact the opposite. I am very well aware of how easy it is for Google or any organisation that can afford to pay a team of hackers and malware writers to control what information is seen about them.<br /><br />Democracy is under threat as you say and the internet, far from being the friend of those who love democracy is the tool of those who would destroy it.<br /><br />We need a lot less technophilia and a lot more sceptics asking "Cui bono?" to suggestions that we all live our lives online.<br /><br />Other than that, if we as a nation reject AV we may well have given away our future. America is lost and there is a gap to be filled. Has Europe the leaders capable of stepping up?Ian R Thorpehttp://www.greenteethmm.com/internet-threat.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-32460649320837301362011-04-24T19:27:20.036+01:002011-04-24T19:27:20.036+01:00Great post - thought provoking, as usual. Thanks.Great post - thought provoking, as usual. Thanks.Alex Marshhttp://www.alexsarchives.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-70682344281936244612011-04-22T21:38:13.715+01:002011-04-22T21:38:13.715+01:00Newmania- if you can't tell that I am talking ...Newmania- if you can't tell that I am talking about the problem of the West, rather than some narrow UK party political point, then I will need to do another blog. This is a major crisis and is systemic and existential rather than party political... The UK may not even exist in 20 years, so I am really looking at something much wider.Cicerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02090838836212624633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-57929254967780130872011-04-21T22:48:47.978+01:002011-04-21T22:48:47.978+01:00AV may be rejected because people reasonably th...AV may be rejected because people reasonably think it is poor system which will deliver uncountable government.To me it seems fundamentally unjust that a second choice should be ranked with a first choice. <br />I live in town dominated by the Liberal Party and I can only say that if they are the answer then the question must be something like <br />"Just how aggressive intolerant and terrifyingly ignorant can a small town Liberal be without spontaneously combusting from sheer self satisfaction"<br /><br />ha ... if you want barbarians ...<br /><br /><br />This post sounds a bit like , if I can`t win then I am taking my ball home. I would not concern yourself overly about mid term blues Labour are on 40% that's miles behind Kinnock at this stage . Not only that but the Party is visibly splitting over AV ( Look into Blue Labour and take a look at the sides on each side of the AV debate)<br /><br /><br />PS<br />Ahem ...C your rather messianic tone and blurred distinction between "people I do not agree with" and "evil" sounds ever so slightly potty. Do more drinking and less brooding <br /><br />Happy EasterNewmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-33841413868131521072011-04-21T06:28:06.860+01:002011-04-21T06:28:06.860+01:00"Nothing is more difficult than to introduce ..."Nothing is more difficult than to introduce a new order. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new." Nicolai Machiavelli (1469-1527)<br /><br />Your analysis is excellent. We need new leadership. We need to harness the wonders of new technology, rather than be enslaved by them. We need a demos with a new outlook that has many aspects of our older social philosophy (perhaps harking right back to Burke).<br /><br />I wish you -- all of us -- success in this.<br /><br />Best regardsNigel Sedgwickhttp://www.camalg.co.uknoreply@blogger.com