Postcards from Magic Pudding Land

I have renamed my blog. It's a small thing and no one reads it so really if a tree falls... At the outset I am giving credit to Guy Rundle at Crikey for the idea. So the land of magic pudding is that place where growth is unlimited and the potential for capitalism knows no bounds. It all happens by magic, all you need is magic thinking and presto, snap, you're there. Contrary to what some people say, I'm not a Marxist or a communist. I haven't formally studied Marx although I confess I did read a bit of Marx when I was a teenager and did hope to study Marx when I went to uni thirty years later. But no, while I admit some understanding and agreement with marxist philosophy I'm not a scholar of Marx. What I am is just a guy who thinks about the world too much. I try to make sense of it, build my own story as they say. In doing that I'm inclined to say most of the world makes no sense. Well and truly, the lunatics are running the asylum. Anyway this is th