tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673758362916429937.post3117992010355410576..comments2024-03-22T20:18:45.865+11:00Comments on Jack Lacton: Spain leads the world in creating social chaosJack Lactonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297939283546740918noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673758362916429937.post-4588741026375178242008-07-17T04:59:00.000+10:002008-07-17T04:59:00.000+10:00Hi Kevo,These lunatic ideas tend to come about by ...Hi Kevo,<BR/><BR/>These lunatic ideas tend to come about by combining a number of problems into one basket and then taking the proverbial sledgehammer approach to solving them.<BR/><BR/>Spain has an Equality Ministry, for gawdsake.<BR/><BR/>Is the Equality Ministry going to help ensure that men's health issues are given as much prominence as women's, for example?<BR/><BR/>I think probably not.<BR/><BR/>These institutions are not there to bring people up but to tear people down.<BR/><BR/>So everyone can be equal.<BR/><BR/>Equally poor and miserable, of course, but at least they'll be equal.Jack Lactonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07297939283546740918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673758362916429937.post-682337729640398902008-07-16T11:07:00.000+10:002008-07-16T11:07:00.000+10:00Hmmmmm, Jack...Interesting article.Trying to disti...Hmmmmm, Jack...<BR/><BR/>Interesting article.<BR/><BR/>Trying to distil this, it seems like good intentions bumping head on with a zealous desire to be doing "something" regardless of whether it can be seen to work or not ? A trend we are familiar with here in Australia perhaps ?<BR/><BR/>So..domestic violence indeed bad. There are often hotlines and other resources for victims. Unclear if these services provide much help with the causes - maybe they do, I just don't know effectiveness.<BR/><BR/>A hotline for perpetrators of domestic violence may seem like a good idea at face value, but we Mere Males at not renowned for pouring our hearts out over the phone to total strangers or even close friends.<BR/><BR/>And in my limited experience, men who are violent are often alcohol affected ( or other substances ) and tend to be in utter denial or blocking out their violence. So what evidence is there that the perpetrators are going to pick up the phone ? This sounds a bit like a public sector budget finding a home, rather than doing some basic research in the first place. What a surprise.<BR/><BR/>And the language thing - eh ! Ms Aido can speak how she likes and deal with the brickbats from the purists as well. As they say, it has taken a couple of thousand years for the dialects of Spain to arrive at where they are, and probably only a generation for MSM and SMS-speak to revolutionise it like here in the Anglophone world ;-) Brave New World, "LOL ROTFLMAO" as Youngest Daughter communicates with me these days !!<BR/>( Where are the babelfish when you need them ? )<BR/><BR/>But one does have cause to worry about how the Eurocrats might take to language with a stick if they spy this area as a whole new field for regulation and social engineering. <BR/><BR/>I mean 'feminist linguists' ? Is that a profession or a hobby ?? Heaven help us if someone is paid to do that for a living ?Myrddin Serenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08317977669677726888noreply@blogger.com