tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post3400089422643585090..comments2023-11-03T08:52:13.914+00:00Comments on The Moonshine Memoranda: KEYNESIAN INSANITY...Selena Dreamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-75854805251406472562009-01-20T15:34:00.000+00:002009-01-20T15:34:00.000+00:00Yep!There is only one thing, in my opinion, which ...Yep!<BR/><BR/>There is only one thing, in my opinion, which can satisfy the necessary conditions for the continuity of our species. The Conquest of Space.<BR/><BR/>This is not a prophecy of course, but as anyone wishing to pronounce judgement on the future of the species can foresee, there is a fateful and increasing inevitability about the deadly inertia of a living system which, literally, cannot escape its own gravity. Having long since fallen into a pleasant routine of life under congenial material conditions, men’s whole treatment of history seems to be the expression of precisely that materially congenial method of living a singly idyllic system of social permanence, which in its necessarily consistent way, commits them implacably and inescapably towards some inevitable state of certain immolation.Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-31541434102603252512009-01-20T14:54:00.000+00:002009-01-20T14:54:00.000+00:00We will soon have to find other planets to coloniz...We will soon have to find other planets to colonize. Preferrably inhabited planets, with ugly looking aliens that do the work for us without pay.<BR/><BR/>This is the only way that our snowball system will continue to function.<BR/><BR/>SF-authors have been aware of this for generations.<BR/><BR/>The next problem will then be: what if we have colonialized all possible planets in the universe? Ah, but that is so far ahead, we don't have to worry about that yet.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02040537651843418484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-1921933369943960552009-01-20T12:08:00.000+00:002009-01-20T12:08:00.000+00:00"....buy our way out of trouble."Yep, just add th...<I>"....buy our way out of trouble."</I><BR/><BR/>Yep, just add three zeroes, then start all over again - except, of course, every time the Gvmt announces another multi-Billion injection, the market reacts in a way one would expect it to react: it panics!<BR/><BR/>It is firmly opposed to such extravagant nonsense, but then, of course, the Government has the full weight of future generations behind it.Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-20769332501372044312009-01-19T20:13:00.000+00:002009-01-19T20:13:00.000+00:00Beautifully spelled out Dreamy. I hadn't thought o...Beautifully spelled out Dreamy. I hadn't thought of the breeding extra consumers wheeze - but it's an excellent point. <BR/><BR/>Last time Britain was deeply in hock, after World War 2, greater <I>production</I> and a curb on imports was thought to be the answer; years of austerity until debt was paid down. Now it seems we can all buy our way out of trouble with IOUs payable by our grandkids - presumably from the Chinese who are expected to be generous enough to work for slave wages forever. <BR/><BR/>Barack might have got wind of the severity of the problems... I noticed today that he's shifting the onus on to the Great American People to pull their country out of the hole rather than continuing to claim he can do it by sheer force of charisma alone. No such rhetoric from Brown... I should think he's understandably wary of asking Britons to do the same - he's as charismatic as a radish, so blank looks all round when he has to tell them that basing an economic boom on borrowing dosh, importing stuff and.. err.. selling it to each other.. wasn't a bright idea after all. Making stuff and bridging the trade gap's what it's all about from now on<BR/><BR/>Ooohh... rationing, currency restrictions and import taxes looming. Brilliant... back to the 50s!All Shook Uphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06815298630864905608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-75726552143955748732009-01-19T17:24:00.000+00:002009-01-19T17:24:00.000+00:00....well I would'nt go quite as far as that Selena.......well I would'nt go quite as far as that Selena but then again I am not a sado-masochist, I just happen to have a liking for discounted mince pies, it may be kinky but I can't help it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-20755443536914358712009-01-19T16:50:00.000+00:002009-01-19T16:50:00.000+00:00Let them chew glass, Sir Percy, and defecate razo...Let them chew glass, Sir Percy, and defecate razor-blades. <BR/><BR/>May their women be barren and their sons never be born. May the cloven-hoofed one arouse their daughters and implant in their minds lustful and perverted ideas. May their blood be infused with dengue fever and their dogs die of the pox. Theirs are the mortal sins of <I>cupidita</I>, and may the vengeful Lord get the bastards out of the way as quickly as possible, because that is the only way to treat them....Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-42229402221042026712009-01-19T13:50:00.000+00:002009-01-19T13:50:00.000+00:00I have just purchased 6 Mr.Kipling mince pies for ...I have just purchased 6 Mr.Kipling mince pies for 25p. Not quite what you meant, Miss Dreamy, by "having your cake & eating it" not least because these are pies, not quite cakes...but you know what I mean anyways .<BR/>Seriously...I agree with what you say Selena....we are all piss-poor people and I hear the bankers cry<BR/>"let them eat pies"percy stiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01352733097698649041noreply@blogger.com