Every day now when I switch on the television, there’s some kind of conflict and some new kind of danger that we have to be alert of, and it doesn’t even stop at the news, on the trains you hear announcements now that tells you to inform any “ suspicious” behaviour to the police. Now tell me what the hell constitute as suspicious behaviour??!! Maybe a person has a twitch or has just had a bad day at work and seems particularly annoyed, do you report everyone who doesn’t fit the profile set by the police? This is just one of the many things the Government is doing… for our safety, of course! I mean they’ve decided to put rocket launchers on top of people’s houses, a tad overkill don’t you think? And people scoff at me when I point out the similarities to Fascism. The police for one thing, has become more and more militarised and are less concerned with the safety of the people, but more concerned with certain areas (usually rich) and certain buildings (usually banks or big corporations) All this extra “security” doesn’t make me feel safe at all, it makes me feel nervous because if I do anything that they perceive to be suspicious, like wearing a backpack, they might arrest me or worse.. shoot me in the name of national security. I tell you what the biggest threat to national security is.. CLIMATE CHANGE. But does that even cross their minds…no, all they can think of is to make the people more afraid of so called terrorism.
According to Wikipedia: Fascism ( /ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology.[1][2] Fascists seek elevation of their nation based on commitment to an organic national community where its individuals are united together as one people in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry and culture through a totalitarian state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation through discipline, indoctrination, physical training, and eugenics.[3][4] Fascism seeks to eradicate perceived foreign influences that are deemed to be causing degeneration of the nation or of not fitting into the national culture.[5]
You have to be a complete zombie not to see the similarities, but that is what a large portion of the public is, through working all day, doing the same repetitive crap, they are exposed to the Metro, The Sun and other forms of “ popular news” and have only enough free time to watch sensationalised news which is often put out of context, but you see, that is all they see, and the more they are exposed to this kind of lazy reporting the more they will believe they are under threat and be more than willing to give up all their rights. What people normally equate with fascism is Hitler, now he took it to the extreme and don’t recognise that there are subtle phases in this and that not everything is so black and white, there are more complex issues to consider.
The news has a responsibility to be objective a show the stories from all angles and encourage people to be more analytical, and should not just concentrate on the views from the west. But you see all this, the notion that the news is there to inform you of the goings on in the world for the public has gone out of the window, they are more concerned with ratings and finding different ways to “ sex it up”. And one of the many ways they do this is by replacing the news with gossip and speculation, because in the end that’s what a large portion of the public wants, but just because they crave it doesn’t mean they should encourage this behaviour, a former alcoholic might want a drink but that doesn’t mean you should give it to him/her, you see what I mean??
I urge people to question the news more and try to watch different forms of news and avoid the mainstream like, Fox, Sky and the BBC or watch them in moderation, as they have forgotten what investigative journalist are meant to do, so it is up to us to investigate. Otherwise welcome to the age of the zombies!
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