I would like to write more this morning. There are, in fact, two quite big posts sitting in draft. They will have to wait. Neither is time-critical. I have to face reality.
I have managed a week of fairly normal output, following a week when I spent most of my time either in deep pain or in hospital, and I have not, despite all the advice offered, probably spent enough time recuperating.
There are videos to edit this morning, some admin to deal with, and then I perhaps do need to take things relatively quietly for the weekend, although at least one of those back-burner pieces might make an appearance.
I have appreciated all the messages of goodwill over the last week or so, but as Steve Keen and I agreed in a discussion this week, we both feel driven by the scale of the crisis the world's economy, its democracy, and its environment face. As a consequence, we are both taking a decidedly unusual approach to retirement by maybe working harder than we ever have. The only reason is that we feel the crisis is so overwhelming that answers are needed as soon as possible.
But I also need a relatively quiet weekend. Thank you for your support.
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I was lying low and not really wanting to speak up until I was satisfied you’d made a full recovery but your most recent post about Gove made it feel necessary.
Gove, Cameron, Osbourne et al remind me of the lack of real accounting that we have in this country. These thugs, these vandals whose decisions have killed innocent people have never been made fully accountable for their crimes. That means that their crimes – such parsimony as theirs – can only get worse if left unpunished and it has and it will.
Our bent politicians will continue to bend our democracy to the will of capital and avoid such accountability. I am reminded of that scene in the drama ‘Wolf Hall’ where Cromwell and his fellow courtiers mull over the advances their married regent has made to Jane Seymour.
They know that their king (Henry) is no God or divine being. He is man like they whose sap rises and whom gets skid marks on his pants. Henry is nothing but an unprincipled shag sack of man with other surly appetites. And yet they bow to his will because apparently there is ‘no choice’.
And that is what we are reversing to – a time of no choice. We are therefore nought but prisoners of our own history being written right now in our suffering, frustration and discombobulation. We can only write down what we see for those in the future in the hope that someone someday will read it and make a better choices about how they live.
Much to agree with
Time spent in nature – birding in the Fens – offers space for recuperation.
”Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean” Rumi
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I am very grateful for your eye opener: How to Find £17 Billion, but do rest.