Current mood:	depressed
Current music:	St Germain

Solar Lottery
Was wandering through a bookshop and came across Solar Lottery by Philip K. Dick. The plot synopsis reads as

"The operating principle was random selection: positions of public power were decided by a sophisticated lottery. Everyone had a chance, everyone could live in hope that they would be chosen to be the boss, the Quizmaster. But with the power came the game the assassination game which everyone could watch on TV. Would the new man be good enough to avoid his chosen killer? Which made for fascinating and exciting viewing, compelling enough to distract the public's attention while the Big Five industrial complexes run the world, the solar system and the people, unnoticed and completely unopposed. Then, in 2203, with the choice of a member of a maverick cult as Quizmaster, the system developed a little hitch..."

And then I started thinking. Was this so very different to the current state of play? After all, if Arnie can win Governor's office in California based upon no policies and take over vast tracts of journalistic real estate - what does that mean about the political systems. Then a friend sent me the following link about an oil pipeline through three countries and the ludicrous terms those governments have accepted for it. At this point even the war in Iraq or the Dr Kelly inquiry look like smoke screens. At the end of the day local dramas can be played out in the national press whilst big corporations do basically what they want. Sure, you have to have the occasional political fall guy from time to time. But I'm sure the corporations look after their own. All is not despair though because some of the people of the world are acquiring proper mistrust.

I may have mentioned the increasing rate of fucked up-ness in the world. According to the Vatican (ie/ the Catholic Church), condoms don't prevent the spread of AIDS. And now I begin to see something of an exponential curve of FUN (Fucked Up Ness) over time :(.

Added into the bargain, the Turkey v England game is on Sky tomorrow so I cannot watch it on my lucky TV. Us not qualifying automatically would just about be the cherry on the cake......