The consequence of over a decade of syncopated Islam-baiting has been a pronounced political turn to the Right, especially on questions of immigration, nationality and ‘race’. Coterminously, ‘Britishness’ has increasingly been merged with militarism. The ultimate test of one’s integration, one’s loyalty to ‘British values’, is to fight for said values. The ultimate proof of one’s betrayal is to insult the soldiers who defend them. One can be against war, on the ground that it is too much benevolence for an undeserving mob, but one can’t denounce the troops themselves.
Source: leninology.com
Make it stop.
- The TV is adverts; “documentaries” about people who eat too much or too little, or who don’t throw enough of their stuff away; QVC; cop shows
- Facebook, after a soldier is beheaded in a London street, brings out the closet bigots and associated simpletons among your “friends”
- The “news” is idiotic drivel designed to deliver you to the latest hate campaign
- The internet is pictures of our cats handed over to millionaires
When did the world get so fucking stupid?
Who dares to dodge Google's information tax?
The old spectacle of television and radio papered the world with images of what the lovely soul of the commodity was supposed to look like. We were at least still free to daydream while we sat idly watching.
But in the spectacle of disintegration, all that breaks apart. The big screen decays into so many little screens. Our leisure time is now to be spent producing information for the vulture industries of Google and co, in an unequal exchange of information. In exchange for the poll tax of personal data, we get to watch each other’s cat videos, while Google becomes some new version of the state, presiding over all our bitty lives, master of all our data, in aggregate.
Ronald Reagan campaigning with Nancy Reagan in Columbia, South Carolina. 10/10/80.
Source: reagan.utexas.edu
