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Corruption at the Financial Times
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Why Steve Hilton is Thatcher’s Heir (Bruce Anderson) (Financial Times) How did the fantasies gain circulation? Probably because some young special adviser, on his way to the pub, passed a room and heard raised voices... Mr Hilton may well be the most extraordinary character ever to have worked in Number 10. He is certainly the scruffiest, at least since the days when chimney sweeps sent their boys up the chimney. In the office, he walks around barefoot. As he is bald, he would only need a robe to look like an undernourished Franciscan Monk. But there is a delicious paradox. Margaret Thatcher was just about the best-dressed inhabitant of Downing Street. Yet she and Mr Hilton have a lot in common. This is not because she quoted St Francis’s prayer when she arrived on the threshold of Number 10. The two are both outsiders, with all the impatience that brings... Mr Cameron and Mr Hilton have a formidable objective: a cultural revolution in the public services and the relationship between citizen and state. Lady Thatcher overthrew economic Clement Attleeism. Mr Cameron will finish this, replacing social Attleeism with the Big Society. Can you believe this nonsense? Margaret Thatcher and Mr Hilton have a lot in common because they are both outsiders! The psychodynamic counterpart to the Iron Ladie's revolution in economic science is the Big Society! What a lot of bunkum and balderdash. Look at the journalism, it's like ice cream, it looks and tastes good but the ideas underneath are total junk. Notice it's what Plato would have called poetry, it's completely inspired and completely un-philosophical. Yet it's also crafted to titillate, charm and trick FT readers, not lift them toward higher truths like proper Dionysian poetry. It reminds me of Bram Stoker's Dracula, a groundbreaking film which used special effects, lights and music to hypnotise viewers. It hooks right into the unconscious mind and pours itself into the soul. In the hands of a religion prophet these kinds of tricks are useful, in the hands of sophists and charlatans like Bruce Anderson it ultimately ends in Armageddon. As Plato explains, the glaring psychological characteristic of the sophist is fear of death, so the karmic lesson he needs to turn himself around is plague, starvation, war etc. Bruce Anderson testifies to the huger in our souls, let the lessons begin I hear them screaming from their dark dungeons of human personality. Dear God, the prayer goes, I have lost control of my zombie, I am fed up screeching into the smoke, help me God to find freedom, unleash the fires of hell to turn these half blind tyrants back toward light so that we might live again! Funnily enough while the FT goes downhill The Times is trying to take life a bit more seriously. Perhaps Rupert Murdoch has started having nightmares. You know how the old dream of all the terrible injustices they have committed in their life? Now can you imagine a more terrible fate than Rupert Murdoch? I bet he wakes up every night seeing flames and flayed flesh, so now he hired a bunch of new guys and is trying to make serious helpful comments on the UK economy. But it's too late, he is beyond redemption. |