Mind's Eye Re: 100 years of learning nothing as a society?

Maxwell has just caught a very pesky fly.  A reward walk seems in order.  Yesterday he was pounced on by a young blonde with a chocolate Lab.  Today we will wander past an old folks' home where he entertains for the odd treat, with high speed dashing about and general cuteness.  

On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:45:21 UTC+1, archytas wrote:

I came across a manuscript of Marx (Gutenberg Project) the other day.  It's a bit windy, but not a bad description of the forces in play in Ukraine and elsewhere today  He does a bit of an analysis on how the Royal Navy has been used to support Russia to benefit only a tiny number of rich traders against the general commercial interests of the country.  It also contains this general statement that could almost be about today:

"The oligarchy which, after the "glorious revolution," usurped wealth and power at the cost of the mass of the British people, was, of course, forced to look out for allies, not only abroad, but also at home. The latter they found in what the French would call la haute bourgeoisie, as represented by the Bank of England, the money-lenders, State creditors, East India and other trading corporations, the great manufacturers, etc. How tenderly they managed the material interests of that class may be learned from the whole of their domestic legislation—Bank Acts, Protectionist enactments, Poor Regulations, etc. As to their foreign policy, they wanted to give it the appearance at least of being altogether regulated by the mercantile interest, an appearance the more easily to be produced, as the exclusive interest of one or the other small fraction of that class would, of course, be always identified with this or that Ministerial measure. The interested fraction then raised the commerce and navigation cry, which the nation stupidly re-echoed."

I find it very depressing that our main stream media struggle to present us with any worthwhile analysis.  In the UK I have no one to vote for and wouldn't want the kind of people on offer as friends or colleagues.  We have UKIP, a bunch of buffoons in rather loud clothing, about to sweep the EU elections.  There seems no point at all in having learned anything.  Anyone else finding this?

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