It will soon be illegal to grow old in this country. Everyday we read analysis in the press or watch it on TV about the economic problems of the NHS, the benefits system, pensions and housing for example, that concludes that the fundamental cause of the problem is that people are living too long. We have too many elderly people and they are too big a burden on financial resources. This, of course is all utter garbage and a useful scapegoat for the Tories and their obsession with a low tax financial system. Britain, under successive free market driven governments, culminating in this neo-Nazi Tory regime that labels human beings fleeing disaster as 'swarms' thus likening them to locusts and other insects, and their supporters calling them cockroaches, and with a Prime Minister who now refers to actual desperate human beings as 'a bunch of migrants' has been successfully reduced to a society lurching from crisis to crisis because of its economic policy approach. I say that it has been successfully reduced, because that is the policy of the free marketeers, to produce a society in permanent crisis in order that they can promote their free market 'solutions' to the crises that they themselves have engineered. This is the application of 'The Shock Doctrine' as so graphically shown by Naomi Klein. I have written before that I thought that Gordon Brown has to have been the worst Prime Minister in British history, but I have had to change my mind. David Cameron has proven to be not only thick and incompetent, but a thoroughly nasty piece of work who seeks to demonise whole categories of people prior to dehumanising them in classic neo-Nazi style so that he can implement policies that are otherwise unacceptable to civilised society.
However, to return to the elderly. Todays elderly population are a testament to the success of state intervention and point the way to how it will require a recovery of the state to promote economic and social recovery. It was state provision that removed the poor, the disabled, the sick, the unemployed etc. from the tyranny of the market. The private sector will let you die, starve, stay homeless and cope with your disability however you can if you cannot pay the market price. I have written before how the health of the nation and increased longevity had little to do with medicine and almost everything to do with state intervention. The single biggest factor was the establishment of council housing giving decent, clean, secure, comfortable and affordable housing to all in society. Other factors were the regulations regarding sanitation, sewage, clean water, factory acts, etc. etc. The state intervened to regulate the brutality and callousness of employers, landlords and the private sector in general.
We have to challenge and destroy the free market mythology that state intervention is self-evidently bad. We have to change the free market narrative that the market is both self-evidently good and neutral. Finally we have to destroy the myth that there is in fact a market. Today we are governed by gangster monopolies that work in collusion with a gangster elite that governs in the interest of an ever smaller minority of criminals who pose as entrepreneurs and philanthropists. State intervention is not socialism, if it is then Adam Smith was a socialist as he advocated state intervention to establish essential public services and works, but, more importantly, to regulate the social and economic world in the interests of law and justice. Justice is the essential foundations of any society and without it, society will utterly perish, that is what Smith told us. We live in a world where justice is regarded as a constraint on economic interests and profit making. We live is a world that has been systematically stripped of all moral standards, a world where the elderly are a burden and a nuisance. You have been warned.
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Doktor Kommirat
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