Go East my Son

 

 

Subject: Go East my son.

If I were a doctor, a  teacher, a policeman, someone with skills I could use overseas I would advise them to go. The people who are in government now are in no mood to govern, their term of destroying the fabric of our lives is now nearing its goal.
The NHS, brought to its knees is waiting for Big Pharma to take the plum jobs, the Police force is made to feel, 'its the criminal', the Teachers are under the strain of years of under investment, government departments which were designed to regulate have been replaced by unelected quangos and what should be straight forward investment in for instance sewerage control is avoided by the people we pay to do that job (often by companies with their head office in a foreign country) the money going to inflate executive salaries and company profits which I predicted would happen when we left the stewardship of the EU.
When society is institutionally split between master and servant, upstairs and under-stairs then the needs of one is excluded by the other. The dismantling of essential  services supplied by the municipalities through a wilful reduction in central financial funding, turning the councils books into a sea of red and necessitating the councils to privatise where they can. Old people's retirement homes, now privatised are made unaffordable to the majority of people (unless you have a house to sell to cover the cost) are yet another example of deliberately dismantling  society from the helicon days of the socialism  brought in by Clement Attlee in 1947 which ran until Thatcher began to break it up with neoliberalism.
Will we descend back into Feudalism, that medieval structure of surfs and landowners. Will we hone down on the freedoms a little money allowed the holidaymaker to holiday offshore , the opportunity to dine out, or own  a car, which pre WW2 were largely the domain of a few. Will we finally be put in our place with AI taking over and making whole swathes of the populous redundant and given the prospect of a predetermined universal wage (IBI) sent electronically to the recipients address whilst they sit in their lounge, sitting room, bedsit, bombarded by media tripe and misinformation.
It will help solve the car pollution problem, the food waste and shortage problem, the issue of people living too long and costing a fortune to keep alive problem, instead life expectancy will shrink back down to 66 and provide the actuaries with better sums to ensure better returns and it will ease the need to teach 70% of the people since all they will need to know is where the television on/off button is.
It feels that our mental health would improve greatly if we switched off the media’s news, mainly made up of bad news and be allowed to shrink back into an independent self absorbed world of day to day occurrences in which our relevance is minimal then our heads would cease to overheat with the dire news of what might happen next.  Ignorance can be seen as a virtue since we can't do anything to ward off danger and we revert to a time when the news report was weeks, even months old and seemed historical rather than factual.
I would rather see the sudden flash of a nuclear explosion than worry about the political mastications regarding its launch and flight over.