Progress, What progress?

When you think of progress you think of things becoming better for people like standard of living getting better, corruption starting to disappear, the gap between the rich and the poor decreasing and just a general sense of improvement, unlike now where more and more people are relying on food banks to survive,more people are being forced out of their home due to a massive accumulation of debt and just a general shitty standard of "life".

People have been living in a fantasy, a life where they believed they can just keep on borrowing, keep on consuming and everything will be fine, and why do they think like this?? The Media. The constant bombardment of advertising we are subjected to on a daily basis is absurd. You may be thinking that there is no harm in having advertisements, I mean, after all you still have to make your mind up if you want the item or  not, so no harm no foul right? Wrong, maybe an educated, rational person wont be taken in by these cheap ploys to make you spend the little money you have on things to don't have. But the less educated people will believe all the hoopla and actually start to believe that they can't live without- just take a look at what Apple have done!

Which brings me to my next point, the gradual and strategic way the government is taking away our intelligence, how are they doing it you may be asking, firstly by making higher education too costly so that many kids will drop out at 16, and then they give you a steady diet of sensationalized "news" and meaningless celebrity gossip. And all this time spent obsessing over celebrity will mean less time spent on ACTUAL NEWS that affects everyone no matter how far apart they live in the world.

Another thing, by making higher education so expensive, you're making sure that the poor will never be able to pull themselves out of poverty, and the kids that are lucky enough to get employment without having gone though higher education will be stuck in a dead end job,  most likely Mc Donalds!

We haven't progressed, we've gone backwards to the time of the Aristocracy and the peasants. Guess which ones we are?!
Do we really want this for future generations??