Is it just me but should we not be laughing rather than taking serious the propaganda of politicians during mid-term elections? How fickle we are and how desperate we have become that our use of superlatives shoots through the roof at the slightest change. Being Scotland we can be quite dour. At least we admit that. But is our living so mundane and are we desperate for a real change in who and what we have become that 'A New Era' is the headline during a mid-term election swing in the US.
It happens here all the time too. We proclaim great groundshifts in thought and society and ideas when it is just evidence of a fickle and impatient electorate. There is very little real change at the moment. We swing one way and then we swing the other. Now that we have coalition government we keep hearing "The electorate have told us they don't wan't one or the other." That's not true. The electrate just don't know, or trust, or understand what's best for them.
Have we become so moribund and depressed as a nation or society or race that we seek new life in the slightest moment of change becasue we have forgotten how to life fully expecting someone else like a government to do that for us? Are we capable of making change ourselves for another's good or are we always going to be waiting and complaining and expecting a government to do that on our behalf? I'm not sure as answer to that would be easy reading.
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