OUR RISK SOCIETY and the death of culture
It is not only the "bums on seats" evaluations of so called education today that baffles as bullshit - baffles all brains - it is also the lost mystery and character with life itself that is under torture from this risk-based and banal society. The numbers game is as dumb as dumb can be. As the poet Pope (1688-1744) would warn us and write : " See mystery to mathematics fly ...... and unawares morality expires". Or again from Pope : " The varying rainbows die away .... art after art goes out, and all is night."

A society ruled through both the business and business-politics of "risk" is one where we will need to struggle rather much to even find a human touch of character displayed on those dear streets of life. Good luck and thanks I say to all graffitti artists, to all the wonderful street performers and yes --- to all internet bloggers that try to take back the street. To the story-tellers and to the "varying rainbows" good luck and thanks.

This rather fancy and frantic mysterious world is needed to combat the risk society that is absurdly instrumental ( you cannot play with my football ; go get yer own football kind of thing). Winners and losers? I got a bigger one than you have? The only real insurance policy against this risky society is to say NO. Just do not NEED it!!!

Perhaps this approach to life is childlike ( never childish) and often an approach that will fall flat upon the cactus. But better that than ......................