One of the problems, I think, with modern politics is the idea that there must never be a hard choice.
Monarchy is just something you could not institute or invent, in 2022. For perfectly understandable reasons, it would be difficult to win support for the idea of placing a crown on the head of Michael D. Higgins, swearing allegiance to him for life, and pledging loyalty to the heirs and successors of his body. For […]
This is, and ever was, goodboyism. The politics of getting a pat on the head, and making the pat on the head a virtue.
It’s a funny thing, in 2022, to live in a modern, tolerant, compassionate country like Ireland.
There are a few things here, besides the revolting hypocrisy.
An insecure supply of energy, driven by an ideological crusade to purge the country of unclean things.
It might just be time to have a reckoning with the fact that the Irish media and political establishment is suffering from an exceptionally demented case of Anglophobia.
So, I think the main trouble here is that we’re avoiding the central issue.
Both Thrones and Dragon are ultimately about something interesting and enduring: The corrupting influence of absolute power.
For the decline is not even, truly, mourned by our rulers. It is embraced with a vigor and a passion that has, as I have written before, an openly religious quality.
We may need to confront head on the idea that lockdown cost this country as many lives as it saved.
We demand participation, and compliance, with no exceptions. And woe to those, like the infernal Burkes from Mayo, who just won’t comply.