Blogger block

There was a time I was hard pressed to limit output on this blog to less than three or four posts a day. Finally it came down to a more reasonable post every day or two. Just lately even that output has slipped. Even worse is an increasing failure to even visit, never mind comment, on the other blogs I’ve enjoyed so much.

Now this is not intended as a piece of self-absorbed reflection, but is consistent with my tendency to over analyse. Sure I have come to the ‘do or die’ end of a project I’ve been working on, but that never interfered before. There is a mild depression bought on by the ills of season change and a less than satisfactory domestic situation, but I’ve worked through all that before.

I’m thinking, given a penchant for predictive models and half understood economics, watching events unfold around the world, it is almost like (along with others like Lindsay) I’ve already said it. Now it seems like the time for observation, to watch as predictions unfold.

As the insanity unfolds its almost like the critter caught in the glare of oncoming headlights, frozen in fascination. Like the season change, which invariably stresses my poor, long suffering sinuses, the long predicted political/economic pendulum swing brings its own stresses.

Of course it is always darkest before the dawn and coldest with the first rays of a new day. So it is, it seems, with a shift in these longer cycles. For me, a progressive I hope, we are leaving a long period of conservative darkness and the egress carries its own cost. There is far too much to comment on, far to much idiocy, and there is no real satisfaction in being a Jeremiah.

Some of the key idiocy assailing me today:

• Senator McCain claiming a mantle of change and enshrining Bush policy. Even worse that same presidential aspirant confusing Spain as a South American country.
• Australia’s discredited conservative establishment arguing their imagined impoverished backgrounds. I will blog on this one in the next few days.
• Canada’s Conservative government going into election arguing a full entry into the free market world, just at a time when that edifice is collapsing all around them.

I suppose it is a matter of personal perspectives, but when these are people who aspire to lead, surely we should expect some sort of realistic world view from them.