The 51st state?

Artificial world The title of this piece is not too far off from reality, just look around you people value things like “Farmville” more than farming. One will perhaps keep you entertained for a few hours but the other will feed you so that you won’t die! And this whole hoopla about “social media”, which is not socializing for one thing you’re not talking to people you are typing on your computer, it could not be more anti social if it tried, for one thing it removes the need to see people, which if I’m not mistaken.. is socializing! It’s closer to snooping on each other than anything else, and the CEO Mark poopyhead is making sure that it is becoming less and less of a private medium between friends and making sure that any “peodo” can find you.

 Why is it that people place so much value on the virtual more than the reality? It’s not as though it stops at this, in education there is more emphasis on computing and finance than there is on things like engineering and actually learning skills. Kids are being brainwashed into believing that being in finance or becoming the CEO of a business is a thing to aspire to, maybe someone should tell them how they actually accumulated all that wealth! They did it by screwing people over and exploiting every opportunity to their benefit, if this is the kind of life you want where everyone is out for themselves and having just an ounce of compassion is considered a weakness, then maybe you should move to the States where ass holes like that are worshipped!

The scary thing is, this country is becoming increasingly similar to the States. Already the entertainment sector has become more concerned with the trivial and the content has been boiled down to its simplest form, and not just the entertainment but the news also. The news is meant to inform you and educate you about the goings on around the world, it is not a source of entertainment and shouldn’t be more concerned with having the latest gadget and other gimmicks! The education system is also becoming more like the US, funding is being cut and fees for higher education are shooting though the roof, it’s as though they don’t want the population to have access to education..ummm. and just like the States there is more of an emphasis on frivolous things like Prom, Valentine’s day, Christmas parties and sports and less on thing that really matter like: the sciences, mathematics, philosophy and history. The latest news to come out of education circle is that the children are “less than average”- and that’s putting it lightly! Is it such a shock when the policy makers are looking to the US for inspiration?!

 This government is not satisfied with making sure that we don’t think but they have also made sure that many of us won’t be able to move, with a fast food place on every corner and at least 3 on the high street! And does anyone even stop they consider why these fast food chains just happen to be in low income area?! It is so they can exploit your situation for profit, because the “food” they serve is not exactly of any nutritional benefit, most of it probably isn’t meant to be consumed by humans! And only having access to that junk is not exactly healthy and can only be a burden on the NHS, which they are also cutting funding to and it wouldn’t even surprise me if we have to start paying for it! then the transformation will be complete, we’ll become a nation of celebrity obsessed, obese, poverty stricken idiots- we’re almost there!! So, instead of investing in things that matter like health and education, the give more money to the Banksters so that they can continue committing fraud, but of course when the banks do it it’s not called fraud its legal. Someone has to have the courage to tell the people in charge that you can’t run a country like a business; you’re dealing with people’s lives. A mark of a truly developed society should be about the treatment of the people not the corporations.