Banality
Listened to Lord mandelson on the Today programme this morning. Such a silver tongue.
Osborne was wrong because of the undermining of confidence in the market. On the question of did not see it (the recession) coming well Brown and Darling were telling us from the beginning of the year.
You could almost believe him, saying it with such confidence and authority.
Nick, haven't we missed him, I mean the World Trade Talks which failed, but hey we can talk for a few years more.
Can I give a quote from a biography of Hannah Arendt:-
'She raised the question of whether evil is radical or simply a function of banality—the tendency of ordinary people to obey orders and conform to mass opinion without critically thinking about the results of their action or inaction'.
Would anybody agree that we are in a period of serious banality.
Osborne was wrong because of the undermining of confidence in the market. On the question of did not see it (the recession) coming well Brown and Darling were telling us from the beginning of the year.
You could almost believe him, saying it with such confidence and authority.
Nick, haven't we missed him, I mean the World Trade Talks which failed, but hey we can talk for a few years more.
Can I give a quote from a biography of Hannah Arendt:-
'She raised the question of whether evil is radical or simply a function of banality—the tendency of ordinary people to obey orders and conform to mass opinion without critically thinking about the results of their action or inaction'.
Would anybody agree that we are in a period of serious banality.
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