Don't blame the media
blame people. Especially British people - God I loathe us.

Nobody would read a newspaper with headlines like "WORLD STILL FUCKED - DON'T BOTHER WITH LONG TERM PLANS" or "WHOLE PLANET IGNORES WARNING SIGNS AS WE HURTLE TO OBLIVION". People just reject it as depressing and go off gawping at celebrity piffle or the latest political fiasco.

Sadly enough for humanity, Rupert Murdoch won the argument that he first pitched in the 80s - newpapers should give people what they want, not tell them what they need. His fucking minions are still spouting this fucking argument every week on the telly, and every day amongst themselves. It's actually written all through James Murdoch's bone marrow like a fucking stick of Blackpool rock.

And all this is just because nobody has the balls to offer the counter argument: "Fuck what people want. People are obviously idiots, and we shouldn't be trusting their judgement. We shouldn't give them what they want any more than we should offer a wee dram to an alcoholic." There, I said it.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:35, 3 replies)

Couldn't agree more
it's far too easy to blame the media, when after all if they tried giving an unpopular message, sales would plummet. Even that arch-wanker Piers (Moron) Morgan *tried* taking the Mirror upmarket to deal with "real issues" and saw circulation fall off a cliff as a result.

If you think the media is poor, that our politicians are lying bastards, you'd be right, but both are the products of focus groups and reflect what people want to hear.

However the solution required - the infamous "benign dictatorship" ain't ever going to happen. Instead, we'll all be kept in bread and circuses, until the wheels finally fall off and we're all fucked.

Right kids ?
(TheImmortalJenkins, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 15:58, closed)

Wanna hear my solution?
Well, here it is anyway:

We make a very clear distinction between first and second class citizens. Pretty awesome, huh?

Wait - there's more: In my utopia, everyone is born a second class citizen. You can't vote, marry, own a house, give an opinion in public, listen to music on a bus or drive any form of vehicle. But, at any age you can apply to become a first class citizen. This involves several tests, including what we now call GSCEs, plus an evaluation of your personality and some general checklist type stuff. There's no way you can become illegible for this test. You can take the test as many times as you need, it is always free, and the revision materials are also always free and available to anyone. You don't have to complete it all at once, and you only have to pass each module once.

Problem solved.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 16:16, closed)

*doesn't vote for this*
*very much doesn't vote for this*
( rob, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 16:24, closed)

You don't get a vote Rob
Nobody who disagrees will get a vote.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 16:29, closed)

mainly I meant I wasn't clicking "i like this" and felt a need to publicly state this

( rob, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 16:33, closed)

With my terrible handwriting,
I'd be illegible for pretty much any written test.

You fucking fascist.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 16:27, closed)

You beat me to it.

( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Wed 7 Dec 2011, 18:41, closed)

Well, that's all the deltas, gammas and epsilons fucked then
Why not introduce eugenics and have done with it ?

A: because that way, real dystopia lies.
(TheImmortalJenkins, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 16:50, closed)

I always thought that THX was the scariest vision of a dystopian future
But now that I live in the real future, I'm not so sure.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 16:56, closed)

Obviously the folk who are willing and able to hire private tutors will be at an advantage here.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 19:04, closed)

just accept that we're all fucked
then sit back and enjoy the ride
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 16:01, closed)

Well that's what the Independent tried to do
when it first launched 25 years ago (or thereabouts).

Trouble is, the Independent is fucking boring.
(rockdoctor, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 16:08, closed)