The age of technology and fluro-irridescent leggings which has been hampered after, sought after from a past of World Wars and pillaging, Berlin Walls and the wireless, has dawned. What we have to show for our progression is facebook and twittering. We should be heading for the next era of perfection, surely. It has been a while… Why have they not created a vaccination for hangovers or a cure for feeling tired? Why am I not wallowing in milk and honey, with robots tending to my every need? Perhaps what I should mean is, why are there still people in cities across the world walking for miles to fetch clean water, or communities in Africa and India who have to struggle against big corporations ploughing through their homes to get the last dribbles of oil from under their feet? They should be swimming in a syrupy milkshake, too.
The point is, whether or not David Dimbleby can successfully humiliate morons should not be a primary irritation at this point. Redress: Even if we are a fairly carefree bunch, and even if the milk appeals, we know the nonsensical pedalling of the likes of Griffin. We already know that extremist politics with their promise of a pure-blood utopia are a sickening perversion of reality. Despite my seeming disregard for online chatter and picture-swapping, thankfully we seem to be on the brink of instant and near-universal communication which allows us to rip the piss out of such idiots within a loud-mouthed community.
So, while Griffin tries to hark his cronies back to a Golden Age of Churchill, war, rations, and racism, he has got it all wrong. We are having enough fun in our shiny online world. If he wants to get the public on side then he underestimates their intelligence at his peril. The magic of communication has provided us with handfuls of sarcasm to throw around. We have nothing to fear. Utopia is not white, a little sparse, and full of fat red-faced blokes pointing out dithering women and downing ale; Photographs of bus bombs and dead political leaders is erring from your cause. I won’t make any promises, but try robots; you might be more successful.
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