roulette

there is a strange chirpy imbecility to all predictions about the future, whether they are made by the romans with the chicken guts, of chancellors in the houses of parliament. I mean we all know we make predictions not because we think they will happen (they may or may not), but rather to define a position in past present and future.
We predict the to cap a past, and spin it into a beyond: Pasts are written not at the time or even in the present, but rather in the name of the future we hope will be.
But equally, we pitch the future to talk of the present: The future is the easiest way to describe the current political or social or whatever reality. The future then allows one to navigate what it is here an now; it names the here and now .
Finally in pitching a future, one casts bread upon the water and waits as all gamblers do. If ones predictions actually happen to be right (if the prediction seemed unlikely) the the capital one gains (one way or other) is enormous; and if one s wrong it does not matter much.
The result of source that politics but also economic and auguring in general easily becomes a babble about the future world, and what will be - a politics or a media coverage of delightful fantasy and speculation: The problem of course is that in all this babble actually real problem, become lost or merely just another future that we are wittering about.... A factor that beyond the froth of democracy (as its its assertion is future babble is the best possible), is truly worrying.