Belgian Senator decides Lysistrata is a model to be followed:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/02/09/133629265/after-241-days-without-a-government-belgian-senator-proposes-a-sex-strike?live=1

Belgium, if you haven't been paying attention, is coming close to becoming the country with the longest time between an election and the formation of a government. Iraq holds the record, having gone 289 days without a government, until coming to an agreement last year.

Today Belgium is going on 241 days sans government. Belgians are jokingly calling themselves the "most successful failed state."

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I must say that as a solution to social problems, this is all Greek to me. I think that it's a nice change of pace to have people addressing intractable political problems with humor as opposed to mass riots and Molotov Cocktails. I do not, however, predict that a sex strike will work entirely effectively in the age of cheap, mass-distributed porn. I do find it weird, however, that the Belgians have yet to figure out what the problem is with their governance. They may be a "state on autopilot" but that they can still function thus seems to argue a few things about government, namely that parliamentary government is capable of functioning without a necessarily summoned parliament and that anarchists may have something to their ideas after all.

What say you to all of this? 

Comments

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

You know the game. (http://community.livejournal.com/talk_politics/261191.html) Please expand your post.

I saw it in the morning, so let's say 6 hours? :-)

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Done.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Awesome, thanks.