[BenLurkin]

“Reading it, one can see that JK Rowling - like many cultured English people - believes there was a real Thatcherite revolution, that it was a disaster, and that culture’s only chance is to survive as an occult science.”

I’m not saying this guy is a drug addict — I don’t know if he is or not. But that sure sounds like classic pot addled thinking.

[Stoat]

Reading it, one can see that JK Rowling - like many cultured English people - believes there was a real Thatcherite revolution, that it was a disaster, and that culture’s only chance is to survive as an occult science.”

I’m not saying this guy is a drug addict — I don’t know if he is or not. But that sure sounds like classic pot addled thinking.

And also generic, unenlightened Leftist 'thinking' which is usually indistinguishable from pot-addled thinking.

From the article:

"Harry's uncle and aunt - Muggles par excellence - live like heroes of Margaret Thatcher's world, in a neat little estate where all the houses are identical," he said.

Only a committed Leftist who knows nothing of Conservatism would think that it's a Conservative ideal for all houses - and by extension, all people - to be the same.  In fact, it's Socialism that has always pushed rigid uniformity in all aspects of life and it's Conservatism and Capitalism that enthusiastically encourages innovation, imagination and risk-taking.

This guy has it all exactly backwards.

Reading it, one can see that JK Rowling - like many cultured English people - believes there was a real Thatcherite revolution, that it was a disaster, and that culture’s only chance is to survive as an occult science.”

I’m not saying this guy is a drug addict — I don’t know if he is or not. But that sure sounds like classic pot addled thinking.