tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post8361339988088725789..comments2024-03-29T09:14:53.583+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: On the Centrist Fetishising of TalentPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-44601673010149337882018-05-13T08:53:28.278+01:002018-05-13T08:53:28.278+01:00I don't remember Livingstone constantly bangin...I don't remember Livingstone constantly banging on about the Zionists and Hitler. I remember him mentioning it and then everybody else constantly banging on about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-2198113546986461812018-05-12T09:28:50.372+01:002018-05-12T09:28:50.372+01:00An ex-Labour MP who is the long term partner of an...An ex-Labour MP who is the long term partner of another ex-Labour MP and now long term member of the Lords said to me 3 years ago on speaking about who gets supported by the party to get seats 'it is not how good you are in the Labour Party it is just about who you know and how you serve their interests' Perhaps this is the 'talent'? I just hope we are moving away from the deference in the Labour Party.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-33430764754273996202018-05-11T15:30:23.454+01:002018-05-11T15:30:23.454+01:00"That’s why Ken Livingstone seems to be so un..."That’s why Ken Livingstone seems to be so universally hated; he had tory parents, but is in the Labour Party; he moved from South to North London to get a seat on the GLC; he was in local government, then national politics, then local government"<br /><br />That might have once been the reason, but 'constantly banging on about Jews and Hitler in ways that drain all goodwill' has surely superseded this. He certainly doesn't "synthesise radically different cultural expressions" nowadays.Lidl_Janusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-34456309847234405282018-05-10T10:16:01.744+01:002018-05-10T10:16:01.744+01:00A comment from the Facebook on charisma:
Agree, ...A comment from the Facebook on charisma:<br /><br /><br />Agree, was having this discussion last night. Cliff Geertz is very good on this. But there is social capital and social capital. Charisma (in Weberian terms) is an expression of social capital because it expresses the ability to synthesise radically different cultural expressions - I don’t think it can be denied that, to an extent, Sadiq has this. Whereas the norm for politicians nowadays is to draw their social capital from a very narrow well - the whole “Westminster bubble“ hypothesis Which leads as you have argued to this fetishisation of talent or competence. Give me lucky generals, as Napoleon wrote.<br /><br />That’s why Ken Livingstone seems to be so universally hated; he had tory parents, but is in the Labour Party; he moved from South to North London to get a seat on the GLC; he was in local government, then national politics, then local government; all of this contradicts the popular myths about how politics is organised in this country. And that is what constitutes charisma.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-36751400983404791582018-05-10T09:10:47.064+01:002018-05-10T09:10:47.064+01:00The "talent" touchstone is an appeal to ...The "talent" touchstone is an appeal to authority type of logical fallacy.WillORNGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03759801640058517521noreply@blogger.com