Not so blissful ignorance

Distractions

Distractions serve a rather insidious purpose, which is to make sure you’re looking elsewhere when something rather terrifying and disturbing is going on. People may not admit it, but they are more likely to be susceptible to distractions when their life is in a particularly depressing place. Just take a look at this whole Royal baby hoopla, all of the mainstream news channels are obsessively covering it, and not just on TV but in the newspapers and online. It’s absurd!

Has everyone forgotten about the recession ( Robbery) that is going on and the 5 more years of austerity that we are doomed to suffer, or the hunger strike in GITMO, the mass surveillance done by the US, the protests in Egypt and Turkey , or the injustice in the US in regard to the Trayvon Martin case, the rise of the far right all across EUROPE or CLIMATE CHANGE- all this has supposedly been put on  hold because of another Royal has entered this world, and what a world it is with perpetually war, rampant poverty and the ever increasing number of homeless and people in the “ developed world” relying on food banks to feed themselves!

How on Earth is this development?? If anything we have gone backwards where the nobleman and lords had everything and the peasants had to make do with what they could find in the gutter! But no one dares to look at this because then they will have to live in reality and not this fairytale they have cooked up for themselves, and the elites don’t want us seeing this because then they will have to deal with the revolt of the peasants! After all there are more of us and less of them….yet they do seem to have much more in the way of everything! That’s democracy for you! You live in your castles while the people are starving and dying in the street, wait a minute… that’s not democracy that’s PLUTOCRACY!

Plutocracy is where  you are ruled by the wealthy and it is not a desirable place to be because as the Plutocrats accumulate more wealth, they ignore their social responsibilities like helping the poor and instead use their wealth and power to serve their own purposes and  this in turn encourages class conflicts, corruption and greed- sound familiar??!

People are not looking at the real issues but are happy to indulge in someone else’s achievement rather than accept that they are well and truly Frakked!