MY LITTLE RED BOOK

fireseed been catching up on a bit of reading
over the festive period
in between the dizzyknee cartoons
the late-nite recording sessions
the lazy lie-ins
the trips to the shops n playgrounds n dentists
one of my most useful recent purchases
is the little bookstand i got on our kitchen table
perfect for accompanying a lazy brekky
with a bit of intellekchewl stimulayshun
while i was doing me xmas shopping
picked up 'the end of oil' by paul roberts
a very good read if ya take an interest
in the politiks and economiks
of ye olde blacke golde
and energee sauces in general
ripeseed now re-reading 'age of consent' by george monbiot
a very clever bloke is our george
he just wrote another hole new book about climate change
i tried to order it online but it seems to be out of stock
the aforementioned 'age of c'
is our george's manifesto for a new world order
yet more politiks and economiks, my seeds
these kind of subjects used to bore the shit outta me
but not any more!
cos if nice people like you and me get out there
and shout and make a fuss
and make some tough decisions ourselves
you can bet that some nasty bastards will do it for ya
label it a 'free trade agreement' (what could be nicer)
and before ya know it
(as seems to be happening in sk right now)
you can tear up your nhs card
and you'll be having a steady diet
of gm food and trashy hollywood movies
shoved down ya throat
whether you like it or not
problem is t'is a complex old worlde out there
which is why ya gotta clue up on all this stuff
'porridge is nower' as george w probably once said
at a press conference
which takes me back to the other georgie boy
and his 'age of consent'
i gotta quote a good bit that monby lays down about democra$y
what he calls the 'least-worst political system'
(in comparison with anarchy and marxism)...

"The argument for democracy at the national level then seems to be - if not exactly robust - more compelling than the argument for any other system, or, for that matter, the absence of a system. But if we can - as most people do - agree that democracy is the best way to run a nation, it is hard to think of any reason why it should not be the best way to run the world. Indeed, it is surely demonstrable that many of the most pressing global and international problems arise from an absence of global and international democracy. The way in which states engage with each other is much closer to the anarchist model than the democratic one. The US government, like that of the superpowers before it, has seized the domestic mandate provided by its people (the 'autonomous community') to assert an international authority to rule the world. It expands its dominion - just like any powerful and well-armed community in the anarchist model by means of violence and expropriation, in those parts of the world which do not form an alliance with it against lesser powers, succumb meekly to its demands, or successfully resist it with violence of their own. The democratic restraints within a state, in other words, do not prevent it from attacking weaker ones."

...i like it, george
you can come round to fireseed's to play any time
see ya later
f