The Long Game
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Owen Kelly looks at three things that seem to have occurred over the last few months:
1. The failure of cultural democrats in Britain to present a manifesto, policy proposals, or cultural programme to the incoming Labour government;
2. Our collective failure to write our own narrative, and thus our reliance on perpetually opposing the dominant narrative;
3. Our continuing acceptance of just-in-time “arguing-against”, rather than developing long term strategies based on “arguing-for”.
Owen proposes we look at how the IEA moved privatisation from the shadows to the mainstream and work out how we can play the long game ourselves. He illustrates some of the possibilities with two examples: the ICAF festival and The Museum of Unrest.
He finishes by going wildly off-piste with a brief discussion of the secular benefits of henotheism in an apparent digression that turns out to play a central role in his argument.
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