People will blame immigration or austerity but in truth the UK becoming a glorified nursing home with legacy media prioritising the retiree class is largely the reason for this.
I start staring into the middle distance thinking about how aggressively they've cracked down on peaceful protest for Palestine and bent the legal system to breaking point to imprison people for disrupting the tools of genocide, and then just can't be arsed dealing with mob rule.
Nostalgia is a tool of fascism, a warm, idealized version of a past that never truly existed. Do not catch yourself longing for The Corporate Wire Mother. There was no Golden Age; only advertisements for products that you were too young to defend yourself against.
Mass phone spying. Online Safety Act. Digital ID. Facial Recognition Tech. Predictive policing. Central bank digital currency. Insane anti-protest powers. Police using drones.
It's a cage. Starmer and previous governments have basically created a constantly shrinking cage.
We will never experience living and driving through a non-LED infested city night. Half of the waking hours of humanity affected by the unstoppable deployment of LEDs, everything looks like the Dubai mall now. Completely insane civilizational trade off.
a lot of tv is bad right now because eight episode seasons every three year are bloated, poorly structured movies, not well-designed episodic storytelling. that's why we're all losing our shit over Mad Men and The Americans all the time. real tv!
There are pictures of this too, and for some reason it always gets me. Possibly because there truly is no way to describe the way he’s skulking about with his little apple other than “sinisterly”.