Thursday, August 02, 2018

The Last Days

Throughout history many great conquering civilisations have fallen, The Egyptians,Greeks,Romans,Mongols,Vikings,Danes,Normans, Portuguese,Spanish,Dutch,Moors,French,Ottamans,Russians,Prussians,Germans,British and Americans. History has taught us that all have fallen eventually. Why can't the British and American people realise that? 30 years ago it was obvious and we accepted it, as it was clear that, firstly we realised the error of our ways and more importantly that it was not practical.
We are left with the dregs today of those that still believe it is desirable and obtainable to get those empires back,we are leading others to do the same,the idea that nationalism is a good thing,that power is our aim,that leadership is our God given right.
All of these ideas have only resurfaced in the last decade,during the age of austerity,'The age of Austerity' caused by rampant capitalism.
The after effects of the banks destroying our economies with impunity led to the perfect conditions for the right wing to grow,as they did during the Weimar Republic of Germany after World War 1.
The Conservative government of the UK decided to pass on the cost of 'austerity' in 2010, not to the banks or the corporations or the rich,they decided to pass on the burden to the poor,to the working and even middle classes. This in turn meant libraries closing, cuts in health care,wage freezes,huge fucking huge cuts in the police force and military,in roads that never got fixed,in the deprivation of the disabled and the unemployed....the list goes on. Yet the banks got off scot free and the biggest propaganda machine ever mounted in (at least British) history began to blame the unemployed,the elderly,the disabled,those at the bottom.
It forgot (this propoganda machine),who caused the austerity.
Eventually the anger rose from the people,so the propoganda machine changed tact,it changed aim....to refugees,to illegal refugees and at this time millions were coming into Europe after we had spent 15 years bombing them and their neighbours and left no viable governments in place,only chaos,violence and hunger.
The irony is, is that we stopped those same refugees arriving,they were absorbed by our European neighbours....who hadn't bombed them for 15 years.
So the Propoganda machine shifted again,to the EU. When people are pissed off,hungry,no library to go to,no decent roads and you are told that the blame lies in basically anywhere then you will believe it
We are in an unprecedented age of propoganda, in what we now call 'fake news',
Statistics and absolute facts are dismissed....history is dismissed,and of course the banks and markets roll on unaffected.
The banks are to blame,but education is also to blame,and so is reality TV,soaps and the dumbing down of culture,and much more. In 300 years time this decade may become more infamous than the decades of the last century,this decade may well become as famous as The Fall of Rome and the step back into The Dark Ages. Let's hope not.

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