Christmas
is here again, and I came across this seasonal story about how High Street sales
are “down” on average this year, and how this is “disappointing” to economic
analysts, see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20803315
There is a very strange tone to this article; a kind of shock-horror, “what a
shame” attitude. It alludes only slightly to what really should be bloody
obvious! These human beings, what are called by the deeply sinister dysphemism,
“consumers”, have had our jobs taken away from us. We’ve had our benefits cut
to save bankers with more money than God losing one off a long row of zeroes on
their bank statements. Those of us out of work have been forced to become civic
slaves just to be tossed the pittance of Job Seekers Allowance. We’re
constantly fed stories about how nothing lies ahead of us except economic
Armageddon... And we’re expected to do our High Street duty by going to these
cathedrals to materialist consumerism and parting with what little promissory
cash we have for piles of trinkets we don’t need, and those whom we buy them for
will probably throw away before spring!... That’s
why Christmas High Street sales are down this year!... DUH!
At
least this time we’re not going to be insulted with an attempted guilt trip
like we have been in the past! See: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/economys-fawkt-its-your-fault.html
I hear this every year on the BBC News and no longer feel guilty and pressurised to go out and spend except on myself of course. The main reason is because of online shopping so why should people spend in the shops as well as buy presents online.
ReplyDeleteI love the remark about how the economy could dive just because people are sick and therefore not eating the junk food marketed to them during the swine flu crisis. We're made to feel responsible for everything that happens including the weather; both the causes and the solutions.