Posted by Declan on April 4, 2006, at 2:34:31
In reply to i mebee been bad ova here, posted by special_k on April 3, 2006, at 4:22:32
Yeah, me too. I'd like not to feel scornful and contemptuous when it comes to politics, but I haven't managed it yet. Blocks too, they get me. Here you can be blocked for half the titles in the history section of a bookshop. Take "The March of Folly" by Barbara Tuchman. Not her best book, but even so. I have no idea what it is acceptable to say here. Would it be uncivil to talk about folly? Incidentally, I think that taking folly and ignorance seriously as limits on successful human interventions is old fashioned conservatism, went out with Harold Macmillan etc here I go again.
Declan
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