“What do you think this is? A liberal democracy or something, you posties are forgetting one vital thing, you’re freedom is not an option and you don’t get to choose your own working conditions you should plug away at the job until you retire and don’t get a pension, you do as we say when we say [...]
Archive for the ‘Capitilism’ Category
Get back to work! and how dare you try and ‘fight for better conditions’
Posted in Apathy, CWU, Capitilism, Disillusion, Frustration, Labour, Marxism, Political, Postal Strike, Postcomm, Privatisation, Royal Mail, Society, Unionism, rant on October 9, 2007 | 11 Comments »
On preconcieved ideals and unquestioned process
Posted in Capitilism, Freedom, Marxism, Materialism, Philosophy, Political, Property, Society on August 20, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The point of most Philosophy is to return to the very essential questions and premises of reality and then work outwards, a concept which sounds so very simple and yet is more difficult than you’d think.
Because of course you have to find out the basic premise in the first place, otherwise you can spend a [...]
Royal Mail, a lesson in Byzantine politics
Posted in Capitilism, Economy, Free Market, Government, Postal Strike, Postcomm, Privatisation, Public Services, Royal Mail on August 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As me and my fellow rats are blowing up our waterwings and viewing the horizon for a passing ship the lumbering liner that is Royal Mail steaming full speed ahead begins to dig itself into its watery grave.
A slightly rhetorical description but not so far from the truth.
The situation is getting increasingly nasty and true [...]