If it looks like sh*t .......
and smells like sh*t .......
Why are normally fairly intelligent people switching to manual over-ride (Basil Fawlty mode) ... and trying to pretend everything is normal ..... when clearly it isn't ?
The 1st law of International Socialism (communism/ collectivism ... call it what you will) is to con the middle class into commiting suicide ... and all their little trinkets end up in the hand of the state.
It's a basic strategy, honed and perfected over the years, and it relies wholly on the middle class point blankly refusing to believe what their gut is telling them, and whistle louder to drown out all them alarm bells ...
The cameras are up everywhere .... there's no difference between any of the main political options .... religion is dying ..... pubs are dying, air travel is dying, the economy is dying ..... there are wars, rumours of wars, invisible enemies ....
the planet is dying, the next big disease is coming, acts of god are happening every other day .... the economy has crashed, the banks are bankrupt, politicians are all corrupt ....
And noone can do a thing about it !
But not one person on these boards, for whatever reason will admit to any of it .... content to pass comment on trivial nonsense .... indulge in fantasy economics about this and that !
WHY ?