/Thread/ On the disparity of the Spectacle and Reality in England Just completing a trip to the post-industrial working class heartlands of northern England and it is truly heartbreaking to see how far this place has fallen, not just in the last 100 years, but the last 10.
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This week I have seen families, homes and communities that have determined unbelievably from just 10 years ago. Families that had reasonable homes and habits are now collapsing - literally, physically collapsing - as the rot quickens.
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People not tidying their homes or streets. Open criminality everywhere and never punished. Ambition stretching to nothing more maximising the amount of benefits one can steal. And while civilisation falls apart, interestingly the spectacle of “progress” intensifies.
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I’ve noticed in 3rd world countries that the media paints an opposite picture to reality. Poor Thai & Filipino families gaze at gaudy soap operas of fellow compatriots living in ridiculous wealth and clean working competent cities that don’t exist in real life. UK is now the same
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Apart from the constant fear-mongering of Brexit, the pozz on TV and in the news is increasing at nanospeed. Everything is woke. Doctor Who can’t just be a woman now, she needs episodes devoted to Muslim weddings. All relationships are interracial. All white men bad.
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The TV glitz and glamour increases while meatworld gets worse. Working class Brits used to watch soap operas of people just like themselves, now they watch endless reality shows of so-called celebrities filled with silicon and peroxide.
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Any former restraint or discipline is gone. Every craving of the proletariat is now indulged to the max. Supermarkets sell cakes big enough for 40 people, sausage rolls are a foot long, adults go out in childlike “onesies” and even the shower gel becomes cake or chocolate scented
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How does this end? Maybe it doesn’t. It’s infinitely worse than 100 or even 10 yrs ago, what’s to say it can’t get even worse beyond my imagination? Or will it just collapse, fall apart, die? In some ways it already has. It’s already like the dystopian bad future of a sci-fi show
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And all I can recommend to any young white boy or girl living in this environment with ambition or talent is to leave; thus contributing further to the problem. But exit is the only option available. Exit is the only hope. Yet... those exits are becoming scarce.
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I fear that one day everywhere will be like this. People sitting in their own filth, staring up at images of impossibly beautiful gods whose lives are incomprehensible, ruins of ancestral greatness decaying unnoticed in the background. We will have returned to our original state.
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