This image pretty much sums up how I feel about the way things are in Britain at the moment. The media peddles misinformation and diverts attention to meaningless things such as celebrity gossip and soap operas instead of intellectual or philosophical matters, leading to an ignorant population. Then events are exploited to cause fear, whether it's the economic crisis and fear of financial ruin, or the events in the middle east and fear of terrorism and war. This emotional response of fear is then used to turn people against those supposedly responsible for the fear-inducing circumstances - benefit claimants for the economy, or Muslims for terrorism. Meanwhile those actually responsible, the elites who profit from war by dealing in the arms trade, or who bankrupt the state by dodging their taxes, can go about their business without scrutiny or opposition, as public criticism is harmlessly diverted to convenient, powerless scapegoats.
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