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Worzels World - A world where anything goes

 

In a world where anything goes but nothing works we have access to the most wondrous technology undreamed of in simpler more innocent times. We can use mobile communications to contact anywhere on the globe and speak to a frustrating robot or a call centre wage slave with neither the authority nor knowledge to help you. Marvellous technology with great potential to save us precious time serves instead to waste large amounts of it. Technology with the ability to make obsolete the inefficient quantities of paper required to do business has instead increased the amount of needless documentation generated.

International, interracial and interpersonal communication is now happening constantly and in greater volumes than ever before. With the vast amount of wireless digital communication, phone calls, texts, television signals and internet data, the air is so full of radio waves carrying all manner of communication about that I am sure there is little room left for oxygen. Sadly the vast majority of this EMF smog is unnecessary rubbish. Historically it has been proven that no matter how good something is people will find a way to misuse it. 

Prior to the advent of small smart cordless mobile phones more households in New Zealand had reliable connections to the national telecommunications grid than they do today. Back then I had a landline to my place. Now there is no reception. Like so much in modern life, service is provided where it is convenient and profitable, not necessarily where it is needed.

Roads and highways that once facilitated efficient travel and transport of goods are now so cluttered with road cones and stop-go people they impede it. Students no longer leave school at 15 to get a job and make their way in the world but instead study until they are adults only to end up working on retail counters or in fast food joints. There is little or no hope for the majority of school leavers today of ever earning sufficient salary or wages to afford a house except by selling themselves into debt slavery for the majority of their foreseeable lifespan. Jobs that once required two strong men with shovels now require half a dozen people, a digger, a truck and three hundred red cones. Rugby players are not judged on their on-field ability but on their off field skills in conveying politically correct thought and speech. It may be 2019 but it is Orwell’s 1984 revisited.

When I was engaged in an Auckland-based contract the health and safety induction took longer than the job. Is this any way to run a country? We live in an upside down world where the bottom line has become the top priority. And we are all the poorer for it.

Governments are elected not on the basis of integrity or sound long-term policy but on personal popularity and promises regarding how they are going to manage a mythical beast that people are told they can never understand but which towers over all, threatening to gobble them up. It is called ‘the economy’. Amongst all this contemporary surrealism some still have the hubris to try and tell us that peddling more of the same can solve these problems. And those living in denial of truth believe them. 

The good man no longer enjoys the status and respect of his fellows. Rather it is the rich man who exploits the stupid and the gullible who is depicted as a hero smiling smugly from the business pages. Such charlatans are elevated as paragons of society. We are encouraged to admire them   for elevating themselves above the common herd – not by assisting their fellow man but by treading him down, milking them of their resources and fleecing them of their time and labour. This is how an empire that benefits the few at the expense of the many is maintained. Such a self-made man will likely be seriously considered for a knighthood and if his life’s work can be demonstrated to be sufficiently evil he will undoubtedly get one.

At some stage we must confront the truth because by its very nature that is the reality of what is. If we ignore a dispassionate appraisal in favour of our own fevered imaginings, if we choose to live in denial or believe the published propaganda, then it will be so much harder to face a reality that sooner or later must be faced. When a person’s entire world view is based on a perverted version of the truth then the blind lead the blind and both will fall into the pit. Keep your eyes open and don‘t let them lead you there too.

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We live in an upside down world where the bottom line has become the top priority. And we are all the poorer for it.

 
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