1. Your parents are forced to send you at age 5 to a state-controlled (or equivalent) indoctrination centre called ‘school’. There you are taught exactly what the state requires of their tame, compliant citizens. The most important lesson you will learn is obedience to authority. Then you will be given the tools required to allow you to ‘earn a living’. You will either become a government functionary, or you will go to work for a boss. There are alternatives, because the net is not yet completely closed. But 90% of people go down this route. Resist and the parents face imprisonment.
2. Well over 50% of everything you ever produce in your life is confiscated by force, by a state which squanders that money on handouts, wars, and bailouts to the ultra-wealthy, as well as some of the necessary functions of government of course. Trillions of pounds of our money are squandered in this way. Protest and you risk arrest and surveillance. Resist (i.e. withhold taxes) and you will be imprisoned and your money confiscated anyway. The vast majority of people think this is ‘a good thing’ and actually want more of it!
3. Billions are spent on wars (Afghanistan, Iraq etc) whilst charities and the third sector scratch around for a few pounds here and there to help buy a minibus for the disabled, an hour of home care for an elderly woman, or an operation for a sick child not covered by the NHS. (E.g. the USA spent $797 billion on the Iraq war alone!)
4. We have constructed a Big Brother surveillance society which now comprises a national network of millions of spy cameras. Telephones are routinely bugged and e-mails monitored. Whipped up by the phoney "war on terror" the population are fully in favour of this and indeed want more of it not less. Councils bay for ‘their share’ of the money for CCTV etc.
5. Our trashy society is overwhelmingly obsessed with celebrity tittle-tattle, stardom, Tinseltown ‘fame for a day’, soap operas, game shows, football and reality TV shows. An estimated 17 million person-hours PER DAY are spent watching soap operas alone in the UK alone, for example! (Aside: just think for a moment what you could do with 17 million person-hours per day!) This is seldom commented upon, rarely noticed, it is just accepted as ‘normal’. Astonishingly it is the equivalent of two million people working a full 8-hour day each and every day of the year!
6. Over 27 million of our citizens in the UK are addicted to drugs, drink, cigarettes or prescription medication – and sometimes all four. Not to mention the 101 other addictions such as gambling, Internet porn, shopping, computer games, texting etc. (I don’t mean that people merely do these things. I am saying that millions are addicted to them.)
7. The more genuinely important the job you do, the less you are often paid. For example the difficult and demanding job of care work (caring for our most vulnerable people) is typically paid at the absolute rock bottom minimum wage. In contrast, jobs that are the least use to people, and are often the most destructive to our society, are paid astronomical, undreamed of sums of money. For example investment bankers are paid millions for gambling on the worldwide casino. This is not a hard and fast rule, but it is true very often.
8. The overwhelming ‘cradle to grave’ message our society drums into us is: ‘consume as much as you can and this will make you happy’. The average person sees approximately 500 adverts each day!
The point of this is not just to have a moan about the society we are in. It's about waking up and getting free.
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