Welcome In The Barbarians Comments

As the author of this poem/song I thought I might just add this rider. The election of Donald Trump as the next US President may well be seen as the arrival of barbarians who came from the very heart of the system itself. Given that I only wrote this a couple of weks ago it seems especially apt to these days, dismally so. But we should wonder who is to blame - a major problem in modern democracy is that pundits and intellectuals keep missing out on the main events - Brexit and Trumpland are really worrying major exemplars. Serious opinion missed the point on both these occasions and will continue to do so until the majority neo-liberalism begins to sit up and look at where the problem is coming from. It involves all of us, something that my song predicts. But the media outpouring and Trumpian victory rhetoric, , the insults and the slam-dunks do not serve to communicate, they are not proper conversations, they do not enlighten. The underlying crumbling of the political economy continues. Dr Ian Inkster November 2016