vermontsavant wrote:
Pissing off liberals is the greatest of pleasures,this doesn't surprise me,if you want trash the establishment,liberals are now the establishment.
Depends how you look at it. Public servants are normally pretty centrist but that's because they have to be, as they shouldn't show any political bias. If you're trying not to be overtly left-wing or right-wing the natural consequence is you end up somewhere in the middle.
However politically and culturally the US and the UK are both very right-wing. The main political parties are all right of centre, just to varying degrees. The media is also right wing, the way society is structured and the way it works are right wing, the values that are expoused are right wing. It's only possible to really see this by stepping back far enough that you can see what isn't being said and what isn't even being covered in the first place. There's a lot of deliberate narrowing of options going on, a great deal of "controlling the narrative".
And then there's Lydon, whose whole career has been based on saying the exact opposite of whatever anyone wants to hear or expects him to say. He's an anarchist in that he likes stirring up trouble to get a reaction, possibly just for fun, or maybe fame and fortune, or possibly with the higher aim of provoking thought. It's hard to say what he's really up to and what he genuinely believes and of course you'll never, ever, get a straight answer.
Unfortunately his unpredictability is, in itself, a predictable hallmark now. He's done it so many times he doesn't really have any credibility left and the attention-seeking non-comformity does look a bit desperate.
28 Sep 2020, 1:57 pm
