21 April 2005
the moral compass
Listening to Charles Clarke on Tv today talking about ID cards, it became clear that the contemporary moral compass consists of the balance between, on the one hand, a bag of kittens; on the other, a bucket of evil. i.e. "you are good folk. Your computer-chipped iris-scan cards will exude goodness. No need to worry. Your sleep will be pretty and you will dream of domestic bunnies covered in velvet" vs. "you are a terrible destructive person. Whilst you lie awake in the midst of deserved terroristically-induced insomnia, you'll be metaphorically smearing yourself in molten badness of the very worst kind. Seven-faced devils will scratch at your arms as you desperately try to change the name on your ID card with your stolen car key." And so on for the next thousand weeks.....
If I even voted I would pick the candidate with the nicest name, just as my Grandmother does.
If I even voted I would pick the candidate with the nicest name, just as my Grandmother does.
