War On Error's Blog

Good post and welcome to my website: http://www.joyfax.com

So Dr Goldacre, we meet again, or should i say HERR DOCKTOR GULDENPLATZ! seems i've been doing a little investigating myself, still harbouring ambitions for world government are we, well now, theres a thing that will surely miff Her Majesty for sure.

But seriously, i read your book, Bad Science, last week with some interest, my name is Derek, i am an artist and musician living in Nottingham, i am not a psychologist, doctor, scientist, journalist, though i am seriously thinking (not) of becoming a nutritionist. I am currently in the process of planning out some fairly ambitious, difficult, but well thought of locally, community arts projects of the environmental, maybe slightly hippyesque kind and have some teaching experience in the area of the arts.

And i have been through hell.

Your book, and some other things i have read like it over the last couple of years is almost like the cavalry arriving, most welcome, but always a little too late to make any real difference, some of us in Nottingham have been trying to talk about what has been going on for years, and finding different coping strategies, ways around, or through some of the wierdness that seems to have been endemic across all areas of culture and other departments these days, and i may wish to try and articulate some of those ideas in future, those ideas would be defined by certain qualities, humour, desperation, disbelief, irreverence, spirited defience,anger, and flashes of genuine horror

One book i did read a couple of years ago was published by C.I.V.I.TA.S. by a Mr. Anthony Browne, it was called 'The Sleep Of Reason' and it discussed the idea of whether political correctness was a kind of tyranny or not, i dont happen to think it is a tyranny, i think it is something else, at first i thought it was all a huge joke, apart from the flashes of horror that is, then i thought it was almost like the calvalry arriving, most welcome, but always a little to late in arriving to make any real difference, what i found useful about it was the descriptions of the different behaviours, i mean, i'd never even heard of such a thing as an Ad Hominim Attack before, but in veiw of some of the experiences i've had with certain irrationalising, emotionalising and verbose entities on the scene in Nottingham, by scene i mean the arts scene, certain aspects of the local music scene, the urban regeneration scene, the Nottingham City Council 'culture of fear' scene, i also run into people on the healthcare and social service scenes, i certainly am most intimate with what is involved in such attacks.

Anyway, i have to keep this short before the people at this jobclub thing they've got me on sus that i am on myspace and not applying for jobs by e-mail that nobody ever replies to.

i may start my own blog and use it to try and articulate some of the strangeness i have seen over the years, it will be written from the point of view of somebody who gets to meet a wide diversity of different people and their opinions whilst playing irish fiddle tunes most days on Clumber St Nottingham NG1. 

problem is, i know as much about starting a blog as i do about being a nutritinist, and i cant even spell the word 'nutritionist' maybe one of you clever boffins could help me out with that, i think it would be interesting by virtue of how different kinds of people articulate thier concerns, and a blow by blow entirely entertaining description of some of the blatantly delusional idiocies that have been going down, and on a more positive note, what some people have done about it.

 i could also use some advice on how to deal with some of the threats i have had, i kind of put a brave face on things and say to people that having some hilariously unhinged someone yelling death threats at you down the phone is a little disconcerting, and try to give the impression that i am neither shaken nor stirred by such things, the truth is that i dont give my phone number out, i have arranged for people i know to ring up at preset times so i know who i am talking to, and  i have ended up living like a recluse for the last two years.

but a successful one.  

anyway, i just thought i would pop this note in by way of some introduction, i hav'nt had a chance to navigate around this site yet and just clicked on this bit, i dont know whether there is a war on error or not, but i f there was then i think i know who the heroes are, it will be the person who years ago i saw jumping around in the street while i was trying to play blarney reels yelling 'the emporor has no clothes' after attending some city council meeting, it might even be the person who yelled back at them saying 'there are NO emporors here' and so snapped them out of thier manipulated irrationalised state.

It would be the street traders and buskers who have had to put up with council policies that are tantamount to some wierd kind of, largely emotional level, what, police state thing?
and artists too, some of whom are dead now, which is sad, and it also means that i am one of the few people i know that has seen what malnutrition looks like first hand.

and in Nottingham city centre too.

there is a common delusion, and fashionable one, perhaps even a convenient one that says that artists and such people are all nuts, this is untrue, i know i am not nuts, and i know that my dead friend wasnt nuts, just one of the most sane, articulate, damaged and talented people i ever knew.
Maybe she was just trying to articulate something very difficult, in the end, maybe, her body kind of said it all for her, so maybe i will write about that too.

or maybe not, i wouldnt want to turn my blog into a horror showtime thing, anyway, my special fiddle player sense is telling me that those jobclub people are coming for me now, and they will soon be beating away at the doors and windows, staggering about in sartorialy dismayed condition and mumbling and moaning something about 'mandatory job search related activities' and drooling at the mouth in that awful way they do whilst trying to see what i am really up to on thier computer.

Or maybe its just lunchtime again, must dash.  cheers. D.

derek.richardson1@hotmail.co.uk


  

 

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