tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post4875682557253568227..comments2024-03-28T10:20:10.015+00:00Comments on A K Haart: What matters?A K Haarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-22635515774784706482014-11-16T18:34:11.591+00:002014-11-16T18:34:11.591+00:00Sam - I agree, it does seem to be more by accident...Sam - I agree, it does seem to be more by accident than by design. I think there are some designers in there, but not many and even they may be riding a trend without making any great contribution.<br /><br />Roger - politicians don't fit in anywhere useful do they. Maybe we are bypassing them in some way and this is the difficult transition. Transition to what, I'm not sure.<br /><br />Demetrius - wot no blogs?A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-87669841968941611982014-11-16T15:41:04.088+00:002014-11-16T15:41:04.088+00:00Not to worry, if the BBC is right a cloud of junk ...Not to worry, if the BBC is right a cloud of junk in space will wipe out all our critical satellite stuff. The only question is when.Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-50365835076395204152014-11-16T09:33:08.457+00:002014-11-16T09:33:08.457+00:00I think we have two things here, culture that der...I think we have two things here, culture that derives from one's trade or place in life - costermonger or warrior or beggar and something more ephemeral, a development of a broader perspective that comes from experience and life lived. It seems to me that trade or social position based culture is disappearing, I can hardly see John Gay producing "The Call Centre Operative's Opera", no romance or hardship to most modern work and therefore little for the politician to build upon. Perhaps the old costermongers didn't see much romance in it either.<br /><br />As for a sense of culture derived from experience, I think that settles on traditionally important things, family, honesty and some forgiveness and understanding. Politicians don't really fit here either, they don't seem particularly useful or honest and seize on shiny baubles and then jump about like children - but without the excuse of being children.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-29992898715208989262014-11-15T20:13:19.132+00:002014-11-15T20:13:19.132+00:00"The state, global bureaucracies and global b..."The state, global bureaucracies and global business need each generation to forget what previous generations knew until we end up with a culturally cleansed generation fit for global citizenship"<br />Yes - a sound point. I think this is more by accident than by design. Business and governmental bureaucracies survive by meeting the needs of atomised individuals with constantly re-stimulated appetites. Needy, rootless automata.<br /><br />Cultures are what feed people, and allow them to rest easy. Or maybe they don't feed them, but show them that there is no need to keep feeding - you are OK as you are. <br /><br />Cultural differences will be kept alive in some respect - probably as simulacra. "The cockney/samurai/Bedouin/Romany experience". They are marketable. But the cultures themselves, they will have to go.Sam Vegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05978971199859845931noreply@blogger.com