Normblog.

I used to read Normblog every day but now it’s once a week. It’s come to seem to me too ‘plodding’, or is my ADD getting worse! I usually catch his blogger profiles on Fridays, I intended at one time to do a little critique of each one but you know what they say about good intentions. Anyway this week’s is Harry Barnes, a retired Labour MP who blogs at Three Score Years and Ten. Not one of his best, in fact what struck me about his answers was the earnestness of the exercise, no creativity and no sense of fun. Just about sums up the left generally, as is shown by all the feminist jokes poking fun at their lack of humour.

‘Knock, knock’.
‘Who’s there?’
‘That’s not funny’.

Woman in feminist bookstore to clerk.
‘I can’t find the humour section’.
‘This is a feminist bookstore, we don’t have a humour section’.

Here are a couple of questions and replies:

What philosophical thesis do you think it most important to disseminate? > ‘No man is an island.’ When this was first used by John Donne (1572-1631) he was dealing with mankind which to him included women.
What is your favourite piece of political wisdom? > ‘Democratic Socialism… is based on the conviction that free men can use free institutions to solve the social and economic problems of the day, if they are given a chance to do so.’ From Nye Bevan’s In Place Of Fear. His terminology was also meant to cover women.

Disegarding his positing ‘free men and free institutions’ as the solution to society’s problems, because well we know what an Orwellian construct that is given Socialism’s penchant for controlling everything in sight or not in sight too really. How can someone live through the last 72 years and still believe that crap?
But what do you make of him twice thinking it necessary for our edification to point out that women are included? Again, where has he been living the last fifty years? Earnest, well meaning and ponderous, I met them in England, they mostly went by the name of shop stewards.

We use words that are so familiar when they denote something like the shop floor official of a union, that we don’t think it unusual for someone doing that ‘work’ to be called a steward. One of the definitions of steward is :

A person employed to manage another’s property.

When applied to an official of a trade union, it has a chilling ring to it.

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