Browsing some blogs, I came across this post from Henry North London. It shows just how far along the line our masters are with their desire for a New World Order (now referred to as the New Global Order by Gordon Brown).
The post doesn't require quotes from me, it stands firmly on its own merit, but I would like you to note it was the child who took the most interest. What's the saying? "Give me the child before they're seven and I'll show you the man."
Food for thought and concern for our future generations. It's our responsibility to vote for politicians who are intent on ensuring our children are educated to their full potential and not the dumbed-down standards of today.
Should anyone be interested in Joshua Bell (photograph), here is a link to an interview one lucky blogger had with him, some months after the subway event.
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Got to hand it to you Subrosa, you manage to make the most tenuous link between absolutely anything negative and Gordon Brown - how do you manage it?!?!
Although, to be honest I don't really get it at all!!
The tale reminds me a bit of the Avril Lavigne song 'Skater Boy', which is about this snobbish girl who knocks back this bloke because he's a bit downmarket, sort of thing(!). Anyway, he ends up a big rock star, and she's just another girl in the audience watching him "slamming on his guitar". (Sorry if I'm teaching a grandmother how to such eggs here (just a saying, nothing to do with your age!), but I'm assuming you're not an Avril Lavigne fan.)
Anwyay, I doubt if I would give the 'kiddie fiddler'(!) a second glance myself, but if I came across Avril Lavigne playing in a subway then I'd probably stop for a listen.
But my point is, we all have different tastes in things like this, so what's the problem? And what precisely is the connection with the new world order/GB?
Morning Stuart. Thanks for your comment. You obviously don't believe standards in education are slowly falling and our country has the worst statistics in teenage pregnancy, one parent families, state pensions in Europe. I do.
We've had a 'socialist' government for 12 years now and nothing has been done to address these serious problems.
Right back to my post. The post, for me, shows the dumbing down of our children. For example, when I was a child, every school pupil in Dundee was given the opportunity to play a musical instrument, paid for by the education department. Every one of us had to try something (my tone deaf pal tried clarinet but gave up after a few months) like many others. But there were plenty who continued. Dundee, because of this policy, had more young musicians than any other city in Scotland. Every senior school had a school orchestra of reasonable quality (plus a waiting list for admission).
I think this policy continued until the late 60s when it was stopped because of cost. To this day my peer group are grateful that we had such opportunities which are no longer available to young folk, unless their parents are prepared to pay privately. I'm telling you this because you live there.
It's kind of difficult to do this kind of social experiment with a singer Stuart, but if I heard the voice of Avril Lavinge in a club say, I'd actually listen. Think many would because there is no comparison between her singing and the electronically produced stuff called music today. I do know Avril's music although I wouldn't say I'm a fan, more of a Barbara Dickson fan here (sad eh?). Our tastes are all different (thankfully) but are converging more and more.
The connection with the new world order and Gordon Brown is: he never stops talking about it and he happens to be where the buck stops. The past six months there's hardly a speech where it's not mentioned. Our basic freedoms are being corroded at a rate of knots. I'm not comfortable with every child's dna being on a data base or with the amount of information which is going onto these ID cards. Few protest. Why?
(The tories will be no different from labour. Hardly put a fag paper between them these days).
I shall stop, you must be bored by now :)
If Joshua Bell had any sense he would be fiddling in the House of Lords and make a fortune.
Thought you would be interested
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/feb/05/redundancy-recession
'A new thing they're doing after interviews - they don't phone you, they leave you in limbo'
Ex-IT account manager Steve Mulligan has struggled to find a new job since being made redundant last year, and is moving back in with his parents, with his wife and family
They are giving up on Milton Keynes and going back to live with Mulligan's elderly parents in Kirkintilloch, just north of Glasgow.
"I think the work situation's better up there," says Mulligan.
if Mulligan can get a job, the child care is cheaper. She has been fortunate: Thomas Cook has given her a transfer to Scotland.
Brownlie, why would a talented person like Joshua Bell want to be in the House of Lords? The lad's learned a skill. Skill and talent aren't words I'd attribute to the House of Lord these days.
Where's your next post? I look at your website regularly :-)
Niko, thanks for that. From a female point of view I could say 'touche' to men of 45+ but I won't :-)
This ageism has been going on for many years usually against women. More years ago that I care to remember, I was asked to pilot a training scheme for women, over 40, who wished to return to the workplace. Thinking it would be a dawdle, I accepted.
More fool me right enough. Trying to even find work placements for 12 weeks after their initial 12 week retraining, in many skill areas, was a nightmare. I was determined workplaces wouldn't view 'my ladies' as cheap temporary labour so I expect that didn't help. End was that the pilot was a great success but was never made nationwide, although it made the Telegraph and the Times.
It's not my opinion that Scotland is any better placed for employment, but if being here makes this family feel more confident, then it will be good for them.
We're going to hear many more stories like this one.
Hasn't the IT business always been a young person's area?
Thanks for linking
Im thoroughly pissed off with the government and Im currently unemployed
The GMC have made sure of that
Its nice of you to pick up a post and blog about it because my inspiration has gone today Im feeling blue
Im a Dundee Graduate
No But Im feeling washed up, A failure when I know Im a bright boy, of 38, with a couple of degrees in medicine and surgery and Im a quick study but I want to be gainfully employed but I dont want to be a doctor anymore because I was bullied so badly at my last proper job and I cant stand the NHS bureaucrats
I want to do something else but Im not sure where or how to find it
I can type fast I can put satire and funny posts up on the internet and I can market anything given enough push but I want to be happy and producing for someone who would be happy employing me and would encourage me to grow with out asking me to fill in forms and crap like that
Henry, surely you realise paperwork is the product these days and not skill. As much time is spent in my voluntary work filling in boxes as I spent being productive.
I should think anything to do with the NHS requires reams of paperwork - or so my nursing friends say.
Not fancy being a GP on one of the Scottish islands? Still paperwork to do but would be an experience (and an education I should think!). I know a GP's job isn't in your line but I'm trying to think of something exciting for you. What about joining the forces? Doctors/surgeons in the army have staff to do their paperwork, I know that much, but it would be frontline duties these days.
With your qualifications I should think there are a multitude of areas in which you could work. Henry, you can't give up all your talent because of bad experiences. The world's your oyster really at your age. I'm seeing a retired surgeon friend in the next couple of weeks, I'll pick his brains.
I, too, enjoyed Henry's post. I cannot accept, however, that The Tories are not different. Time will tell. In my lifetime this Country has always done better than ever it has under Labour. My late dad, a foundary worker, always said the same. Working men like to work and do not like meddling politicians that create such havoc. Being on the dole is now a career option too many are happy with.
Oldrightie, there's not even room for a fag paper between the tories and labour.
The problem now is the unions no longer support the workers, they've become part of the establishment.
Dole allowance makes many happy right enough, but shortly there will be a lot more joining who will be unhappy. I dread the coming 2 years as I can see our society may just fall completely apart. It's bad enough already.
Hello Subrosa, I wanted to suggest to Henry from North London since he is medically qualified, a doctor it seems. That he could become a mobile doctor.
There is a mobile vet service in Sutherland, so if I was a doctor I would get a converted bus and generator and take my surgery to the patients.
They would love it especially the elderly who sometimes have to travel great distances to see the doc. A bit like the flying doctors in Oz.
By the way can I call you Rosie? Thanks for following my blog, I am blogging more as it is fun and I keep tweaking it,(my blog) so your suggestions are most welcome to this novice.
The word verification thingy is saying mingi, how rude.
Hi KW, what a great idea. Hope he reads that although I don't know what problems he's had with the GMC.
Of course you can call me Rosie. KW, I only started blogging in the middle of January so I'm certainly not the one you should be asking for advice :-)
mingi? could be an origami style lol
I keep posting the same thing twice today and don't see how it happens. Really stupid and will try to do better.
Subrosa, I agree with a lot of what you say (in response to my initial post), but I think the specific problem here is a change in cultural tastes rather than dumbing down per se.
When I was growing up in Angus there was still an opportunity to play brass and stringed instruments and orchestral-type thingies, but most of us preferred things like the Bay City Rollers or punk.
Indeed, I suspect that even before that (between the wars, say) most people preferred things like Glen Millar to Beethoven or Bach.
And even if your point has merit then to pick out Gordon Brown in particular seems a bit much - which party has ever done anything to stop this tide? Public spending on schools etc seems a fundamentally different issue to a shift in cultural tastes.
You're right of course Stuart, in many ways.
Children learning a classical instrument teaching them the basics of music ie the listening, tone, volume, ability to separate instruments, reading music which helps them write down their own compositions - I could go on.
If they learn this young enough then they have a superb basis for the rest of their lives.
Glad to hear it was still alive in Angus. I always thought offering it in secondary was too late.
Can I tell you, in my school, 9 went onto Glasgow Music College and 4 diversified into jazz, pop and folk. What I mean to say is that instrumental teaching actually eases the way for anyone to break into another aspect of sound. Also I should say we had the best jazz band in Dundee and we were just kids.
The link with Gordon Brown is tenuous I admit and no politician has tried to halt this dumbing-down that's true.
There are plenty articles on the New World Order online and I associate this in particular with our childrens education. Yes there is a shift in cultural tastes and I consider this shift isn't expansive - quite the opposite.
Shall I alter the heading, would you be happier then?
(From a desk near you)
Oh Stuart I mean to add, haven't you heard Gordon Brown referring to the 'New Global Order'?
http://www.infowars.net/articles/may2007/040507EUUS.htm
Have a read of that and there's so much more around.
Subrosa
Thanks for the response - I haven't had a chance to read anything on the 'New Global Order' yet, but will have a look this week sometime :0)
Please do Stuart, I'm sure you're very capable of sorting out the dross. If I find any article which I think is a worthy analysis I shall leave it on your comments.
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