From: Adam Flinton 

Gene McAloon wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:04:56 +0100, Adam Flinton

> wrote:
>
>
>>Gene McAloon wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:54:14 +0200, Phil Payne

wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Nope. I am a power consumer & I reserve my right to
choose my power
>>>>>producer on market principles as it helps make the
power market more
>>>>>efficient & produce the goods better for me. Those
who are wedded to a
>>>>>given supplier through dogma are simply sad people who
can't be bothered
>>>>>to think.
>>>>
>>>>Seen the latest?  You can now buy a domestic central
heating boiler that
>>>>generates power from natural gas at around a third the price of the
>>>>national generators.
>>>
>>>
>>>I believe Adam had in mind being a consumer of politics or even
government,
>>>couched in consumer jargon. We all supposedly love the consumer
of goods and
>>>therefore should admire the consumer of politics as well. Not a little
asinine
>>>really in that there is nothing quite so fickle as the consumer.
>>>
>>
>>Except a politician with an election to win.
>>
>>
>>>No wonder the political parties concentrate on such people and
consumer-type
>>>advertising is so effective in hooking them. Sad.
>>>
>>
>>It's reality. Get used to it.
>>
>>Adam
>
>
> Sound much like Gary B. But then you two have much in common.

Hardly. I gave up ideology when I put away the rest of my kiddie toys. If
you want to be some over enthusiastic ideolog go & enrol as a
university student & pretend like you've just discovered the world
& can change it.


Adam

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