heroes

It has been so refreshing to Mick Lynch in the last few days. He is an excellent debater and orator, knows the facts to the smallest detail, which also means he doesn’t have to lie, which infuriates his interrogators of all sorts who are religiously wedded to the notion that unions and strikes are bad, constantly bringing the false and boring narrative that ‘it would be like in the 70s when no one picked the rubbish’ … they keep serving this putrid dish for over 40 years and the dutiful Brits keep eating it. No debate, no questions. Strikes bar. Thatcher’s mantra is chanted up and down the country as if everyone has taken some kind of drug that closes their mind, eyes and souls… it is so so so weird. 

All the facts are clear: this heartless capitalism they’ve been pushing for so long is clearly failing on all levels but the so called people are too scared to stir the shit because, I think, deep down, we know we have a fake economy that could collapse any time. I would say that probably half of Brits work in non-jobs; we do it like drones each day with no love or satisfaction to get a meagre salary that is not real money but digits in a computer. We send emails and go to meetings; we pretend we like our lives and our jobs… (UK is not unique in this. Most western countries have reached a stage of moral and economic stagnation, that has brought all kinds of lunatics to the surface, offering quick fixes that usually involves having to blame someone, usually of a different ethnicity or nationality. I am just not clever enough to see what the solution is but I know we have to change this fruitless way of existence of paying bills and looking for enemies.