"If you have a troublesome
teenager you don't carry on punishing them, you try and educate,
train and reform them, and to some extent love them. And I think the
banks need a little bit of loving even though they have been an
unruly teenager over the last few years."
So said Mark Taylor
yesterday on the Today programme. Criminal irresponsibility? No,
adolescent hijinks. This is a new variation – new to me, anyway –
on the (idiotic) idea that the state is best understood as a family
which needs to learn to live within its means. Never mind hugging a
hoodie, let's all love a banker. Attempting to have fun by allocating
the remaining family roles reveals quite what a trivial image this
is. Which bit of the family is transport? (A grown-up child who
married abroad?) Health? (The great-aunt who's moved into the
annexe?) Nothing is helpfully explicated, but the structures and
decisions that actually govern the distribution of wealth and power
are a little bit further obscured.
No comments:
Post a Comment