Grow Up, People...

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Before I consider writing anything at all tonight, I must give a shout out to the great British instrumentalist Mike Dawes, who is not only technically phenomenally talented, but who also understands music and the arts of melody and harmony applied to instrumental guitar utterly instinctively. Here he is, once again interviewed and playing on Rick Beato's channel - again a shout out to one of my favourite YouTubers for producing serious and seriously entertaining material for those of us out here with an actual attention span and a love of music. Check 'em both out. On with the post...


All I want to do tonight is voice how staggeringly pissed off I am about the daily, relentless, hysterical criticism of the new government; including from the natural Labour press constituency of the likes of The Guardian & The New Statesman. The bollocks spouted by the right-wing press is as predictable as it is lamentable; but I'm afraid the commentariat of The New Left [look it up] that I have trusted since my youth in the early 1970s, is falling into the same simplistic trap of short-termist instant gratification lust that has infected society in gross manner over the last decade. We are even using that utterly asinine American political metric of "The First Hundred Days" to take stock of the performance of a new government: as if anything of true substance can be retrieved from the carnage of the last fourteen years in just three months! There is even talk of the Labour government's budget already failing when it hasn't even been fucking delivered yet!

I say to these people: get a grip and shut the bejeezus up until there is something substantive to actually discuss: it does no-one any service or favour to continually jibe at stuff that is materially non-fucking-existent. Yes, there have been mis-steps in "The First Hundred Days", and some schoolboy publicity howlers; but for God's sake let's just see how this administration turns out in the medium to long term: we owe them that much at least. It's time for all of us to bloody grow up and be bleeding patient for once. One thing, though: at least the editorial substance of the Statesman and Guardian is measured and even, but I would ask that both organs tone down some of their byline writer's hysteria until there is something to opinionate about from a factual base. Rant over...






Comments

  1. Anonymous14 October 2024 at 11:09

    The print media are awash (understatement!!) with billionare owners (The Grauniad's Scott Trust is northwards of £1.3BILLION!!!) with so much lucre to protect it's NOT surprising that they are doing what they are doing.
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    The pathetic attention span migration to ALL things, fuels this asanine focus on descerning trends & intentions from miniscule amounts of information. Just because politics is on a fixed round does NOT equate to REAL life apart, of course, the budgets set by whichever criminal clan is in power. I include Labour because of the excesses ALREADY committed by the Newbies and their "friends" the bleedin' lobbyists!
    ATB
    Joe

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  2. Phil.14 October 2024 at 19:52

    I am a huge fan of Rick Beato, - as was JGK. Been following him for years........Like That.

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