tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post6034427843051872582..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: London - A City in Flight (Updated)Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-58518394887860376232018-03-03T09:06:43.558+00:002018-03-03T09:06:43.558+00:00.... Plays, films, novels, children's literatu....... Plays, films, novels, children's literature, the visual arts and now even music are all about quota achievement and promoting PC ideology....<br /><br />The forced adherence of creativity into this narrow band of acceptability has all but destroyed the prospects for dissenting groups. Where are today's equivalent of the mid-century 'angry young men' of art and literature? The clue's in the question. Angry (young) LGBT person doesn't conjure up the right image for me. Loondon Callinghttp://otboae.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-69367534150006337192018-03-01T11:41:07.497+00:002018-03-01T11:41:07.497+00:00Loondon,
It's very interesting how the dysto...Loondon, <br /><br />It's very interesting how the dystopian predictions are playing out. I remember reading "1984" (before 1984!) and finding the idea of a TV in your house that could see and hear you as very creepy...several decades later and we find that we actually do have TVs that can listen into our conversations and can see us. In any case, any electronic conversation you have already goes straight to intelligence central. <br /><br />Even a few years ago the underhand algorithmic censorship being deployed by You Tube against its political enemies would have seemed outrageous. <br /><br />The irony is that London, supposedly the great economic example to the rest of the country has the worst poverty in the whole of the UK. The London economic model is extremely destructive of our material and our conscious well being. But the London elite see nothing wrong with it. <br /><br />Your quote from my post could have been better expressed...I meant of course London need to constantly refresh its supply of cheap labour to man the army of low skilled service staff. Migrants here soon come to rely on the state for housing provision and income support once they start having families and of course, quite rightly, the children of the migrants are ambitious for better paid jobs and less onerous work. Hence the need to refresh the supply, just so the finance sector workers don't have to pay £5 for a coffee or have to walk to the pizza house. <br /><br />I think it may be beginning to dawn on some middle class people that mass migration doesn't just affect the prospects of children from poor families but also their children. It must be impacting quite severely on medical and legal career routes - anything where knowledge is objectively tested (as opposed to those careers where unpaid internships are key). Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-36885131724380659782018-03-01T09:47:57.169+00:002018-03-01T09:47:57.169+00:00The mid-century dreamers foresaw many of the techn...The mid-century dreamers foresaw many of the technical innovations that we take for granted now, but their visions of dystopia invariably were predicted as being the result of post-apocalyptic events, and were set in our world after a disaster of some kind.<br /><br />They foresaw the fluidity of migration as a result of ease of transport, but they failed to predict the immiscibility of populations within environments of finitely limited space and resource. <br /><br />The reality of London is that the incoming populations, from nearly every country on earth are intent upon preserving not only their culture, but also the economic, legal, ethical and political models that they have been used to.<br /><br />MB notes above: ... [London] ... needs a constant army of domestic and service workers to support their lifestyle, who are prepared to work for minimal reward: cleaners, coffee makers, airport workers, taxi drivers, pizza shirt ironers, launderers, dry cleaner staff, cooks and waiters....<br /><br />As a result, a low wage economy is developing in London, based upon alien economic norms. We can understand the attraction of London for wealthy overseas money-men and women, but as population numbers increase, so too does a most unwelcome 'haves and have nots' hierarchy. <br /><br />In light of the current predictions of increases population of 100,000 per year for the next two decades, it is hard to see anything other than a dystopian future for London - but not as a result of apocalypse.Loondon Callinghttp://otboae.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-18861670497604179532018-03-01T09:28:20.247+00:002018-03-01T09:28:20.247+00:00We are seeing increased state controls, both forma...We are seeing increased state controls, both formal and informal (via pressure on companies like Google-You Tube) e.g. over what is acceptable free speech. <br /><br />In some respects the situation is more complex now. Places like Google, You Tube and Twitter are in effect privately owned public places. It is as if companies owned our pavements and controlled how and where individuals may walk and were also policing conversations in pubs and clubs. <br /><br />If an internet bill of rights emerges from the Trump era that will have been one of the most significant developments in stopping the erosion of free speech in the democratic countries. <br /><br />The truth is that PC mulitculturalism requires the suppression of free speech and the creation of an art-fulfilment plan, similar to Soviet policies. So the link between art and truth has been completely broken. Plays, films, novels, children's literature, the visual arts and now even music are all about quota achievement and promoting PC ideology. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-2603149867159360002018-02-28T22:55:24.410+00:002018-02-28T22:55:24.410+00:00There’s an intriguing and enduring ambiguity to al...There’s an intriguing and enduring ambiguity to all this. As far as I know, it’s not clear as to whether Georgii Kruticov’s 1928 vision of a City in Flight was intended as a means of escape from the tyranny on the ground below, or whether he saw the same vision as a potentially menacing instrument of hard-line state control.<br /><br />It was possibly both. That combination of hard-line state control of the UK population, together with a comfortable cosseted life on Cloud Nine for the privileged self-appointed few might well be the direction of travel.Loondon Callinghttp://otboae.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-44125217627055879702018-02-28T21:22:46.740+00:002018-02-28T21:22:46.740+00:00The Great Wen is leading the whole country to self...The Great Wen is leading the whole country to self-destruction. It has become an engine of death. <br /><br />It has abandoned British culture in favour of world city status (or Tower of Babel status if you prefer). Not even New York has forgotten it is American. <br /><br />Its finance sector squats on the national economy like a malevolent toad. <br /><br />London is the chief promoter of PC multiculturalism because that is the ideology of globalism and the finance sector. <br /><br />It is above all an engine of mass immigration for the whole of the UK (still continuing at over half a million per annum). It needs a constant army of domestic and service workers to support their lifestyle, who are prepared to work for minimal reward: cleaners, coffee makers, airport workers, taxi drivers, pizza shirt ironers, launderers, dry cleaner staff, cooks and waiters. <br /><br />I think an anthropologist would find that it is the dinner party that is the essential cement of the Metropolitan political-media-finance elite, where opinions are formed and reinforced. <br /><br />What to do? Well get out of the EU is one step. <br /><br />We need a government that pursues an industrial policy that benefits the whole of the country and is prepared to see the finance sector shrink a little if necessary. <br /><br />We need an end to the mass immigration con trick. <br /><br />We need a replacement of PC multiculturalism by citizen-based integration into core common values. We need to reform the BBC out of existence. <br /><br />Most of all we need to become a referendum-based democracy so nothing like this tragedy will ever be repeated. <br /><br />I am not too optimistic about the chances of us taking a new path...but let's not delude ourselves we are on the right one. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.com