Boris Johnson, Kettles & explaining how the dialectic works
Politicians making references to kettles are quite rare. Tony Benn did note that he took his own kettle when visiting Moscow, being a committed tea drinker.
Boris Johnson managed a reference in a rare UK public appearance today however. The oaf who remains Prime Minister but has been holidaying and partying for the last two months popped up to say that if people spent £20 on a new kettle they could save money on energy bills. It was disgusting and demeaning.
Even so kettles can serve a positive political purpose. Fred Casey, (1876-1956) a socialist writer and speaker and follower of the philosopher Joseph Dietzgen used the example of a kettle to explain the dlalectic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Casey
The dialectic is really another word for understanding the process by which the world changes often in contradictory ways.
Fred Casey’s theory of the dialectic using a kettle.
1 Thesis:fill kettle
2 Antithesis: wait for kettle to boil
3 Synthesis: Kettle boils & produces steam
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