It makes you want to scream
Every single day the web of media, statistics, regulations, tax burdens, censorship, interfering busy-bodies, surveillance, celebrity obsession, talk of recession, financial constrictions, and other completely artificial but neverthless impactful phenomena grows tighter and tighter around us all. The question is, how do we respond to all this less-than-white noise? Do we run for the hills or are there other ways in which we can close our eyes and ears to it all?
Some people do run for the hills. They set up isolated communes and reject television, radio and even style and good taste in favour of a bleak and minimalist, sackcloth-and-ashes, dull-as-dishwater approach. Others try never to think, or find not thinking an easy thing to accomplish. Still more turn to orthodox, inherently restrictive religions, putting their faith in the next world having lost all faith in our own ability to ever create a community-minded paradise on Earth. The majority at times seem to have willingly wired themselves into the Matrix and, to mix my film references a little, prove time and time again that we don’t need intelligent and malevolent alien viruses to turn the population into pod people.
tags: bureaucracy, civil liberties, financial markets, Paganism, politics, regulations, religion, social control, spirituality, taxationLabour in government: the enemy of the people, peaceful protest, and democracy
After fifty years one of the most famous symbols of protest in British political history, the peaceful demonstration maintained outside the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, has been bludgeoned to death by the Labour government, yet again displaying its contempt for the notion of civil liberties and its twisted determination to do all it can to control what British citizens can and can’t do, think, and say.
Incredibly, the protest survived six Tory governments, the end of the Cold War and the rise and fall of mass marches against the British nuclear deterrent. It is widely expected that the proliferation of nuclear power stations through to 2020, enforced upon the public and our land after a heavily massaged so-called consultation process, will lead to a resurgence of active participation in the anti-nuclear movement.
tags: campaigning, censorship, civil liberties, democracy, environment, fascism, nuclear protest, oppression, social control
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