Just when it gets too much and you feel there is nothing but the shopping juggernaut small things happen that keep the flame of hope alive. The Liberal Democrats have called for the end of airbrushed adverts that promote impossible body shapes to women. Not earth shattering I know but an important step in controlling the market. And then Iranian democracy protesters have targeted Nokia for allegedly collaborating with the regime. A boycott is hitting the company hard. Life for those who want more balanced consumption oscillates between despair and hope.
Have they also called for the banning of all Photoshop techniques – removing wrinkles, improving skin tone ete etc? A slippery slope.
But it doesn’t matter because the Lib Dems won’t be elected anyway and the party duopoly will continue in the UK ad infinitum because Tories and Labour will never give the electorate the proportional representation which would allow a representative government.
You know what? Emigration is a damned sight easier than trying to change the UK. If the population wants to live a turbo-consumerist, celebrity-obsessed, vicarious nightmare of a life, I am increasingly inclined to let it. But sans moi.
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