RE: Talking about dictatorships and mafia and theocracy and democracy.
January 21, 2016 at 10:19 am
(January 20, 2016 at 1:59 pm)robvalue Wrote: In England we have a very weird situation. We are technically a theocracy (or something very similar) but we are also largely a democracy in reality. As my friend put it, we're just enough of a democracy to make people feel that it is one.
It's a stupid absolute shambles, but like Windows, they keep patching it and somehow it keeps on trundling down the road.
We use the same system here. It sort of reminds me of those old Toyota turcels you see on the road sometimes. Its old as fuck, and you keep expecting to breakdown on the highway and leave you for dead, but it just keeps on ticking.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
