If you didnt laugh, youd be crying. The always amazing author Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels --No not threepio) has pulled out his crystal ball: The contrast between the authorities’ alacrity [Good word. It means promptness or speedy, eager readiness] on one hand in preventing innocent filming for a matter of a few minutes (the policeman said authorization was necessary because it might cause a disturbance, and, being kind, I refrained from laughing), and on the other their slow response (infinite slowness, in fact, since they did not react at all), to a nasty incident that might have ended in murder, was emblematic of the modern state’s capacity to get everything exactly the wrong way around, to ascribe importance to trivia and to ignore the important. . . . modern state authorities live in a looking-glass world: What normal people regard as important is for them of no importance, while what they regard as of supreme importance normal people regard as of no importance. For them the respectable are suspect and the suspect respectable.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:11:34 +0000
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