empowerment

what have i learnt today?
that if you have confidence problems or body image problems what you need to do is go on tv get forced to do things you don't want to do (to use the jargon: being taken out of your comfort zone) and then appearing on tv naked.
voyeuristic tv based on embarrassment seems to be the road to empowerment.
very counter intuitive.

like david cameron’s recent attack on gordon brown. cameron’s thrust that brown could not be trusted he did not get his facts or figures right. look even his recent use of titian was suspect.
brown and titian? what? why?
at a recent world economic forum meeting gordon brown compared the situation of economic leaders to titian’s comment "i'm finally beginning to learn how to paint".
cameron jumped at the fact that brown said titian was 90. there is some uncertainty about titian’s actual age. that wasn’t enough for cameron. thanks to a conservative party worker the relevant dates for titian were altered on wikipedia to make it appear that cameron had the right age and brown was factually wrong. they even cited the entry as proof of brown’s inability to get facts right.
such a shame they were caught out in this little plot. cameron had to apologise and claim the staff member had been disciplined.
like i said it is all counter intuitive to me – you want to prove that someone is not deserving of trust then the way to do it is by telling a big fat fib of your own. yeah i can see how that works.
actually i can’t.
i can see how it shows cameron to be someone who is not interested in right and wrong but just in score very cheap points. it does go someway to remind us just what we can expect if there is a conservative government led by cameron.


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