Anthropologists report on peoples who count "One, two, three....a lot".
That's more or less where we are with our Brown-bailed-out-with-taxpayers'-money banks RBS and Lloyds and, doubtless all the de-mutualised building societies he was using for his deluded schemes. It's not Ireland that's in it up to the neck - it's us. Greece pales, along with the German and Spanish banks caught there, into insignificance compared with our luck and the Irish.
Multiculturalism and 'all cultures are equal' is all very well. But the natives of Kirkcaldy are One, two three, a lotters and should never have been accorded any status other than 'primitive' in the hierarchy of usable ideas and personnel.
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You're being a bit hard on Kirkcaldy, Hats. There was a time when it was quite a successful place; there's even a childrens' song that celebrated the odd smell which used to hang over the place in the days when most of the world's linoleum was made there.
The only accusation that would be fair, is that the people there - along with most of their compatriots - allowed themselves to be deluded by the false God of socialism.
Unless, of course, you are thinking of one particular native of Kirkcaldy above all others.
Wonder where lino is made now Yacht. It's made of jute and linseed oil isn't it? Very good floor covering - much prettier than plastic flooring, pity Kirkcaldy stopped making it to live on benefits; which of course is not socialism but the road to serfdom.
Systems of moral hazard and hopelessly low living standards sell themselves as socialism but they aren't really. Vigorous economic direction, full employment, universal social needs met, and accord and willing assent given to social goals and the means to achieve them, coupled with individual means to pursue private happinesses and interests is an attractive agenda.
Pity about Kirkcaldy, and places like it.
Adam Smith was a native of Kirkcaldy.
So he was. But his was the first treatise in the history of economic thought, well over two centuries ago. Primitive.
And schizophrenic: he could not make up his mind between The Wealth of Nations and Moral Sentiments.
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