We are young, confident, affluent, and have no memory
of tougher times. We’ve grown up in an era of never
ending financial growth, and have expected things to
stay that way. We’ve grown up in owner occupied homes
with total acceptance of technology, global warming and
terrorism. Our whole society has been based on
consumerism for the past 15 years, making us dream
consumers, yet we don’t know the difference between a
credit card and a debit card, and we have no idea how
much a pint of milk costs.
On average we have 800 illegally downloaded songs, and
1 on 8 of us spends more than 100 pounds a month on our
mobile phone bill. We’ve never read a newspaper, and
we’ve never used our chance to vote.
We allow our governments to make decisions without
giving us all the facts. They send troops abroad who
will die in order that we can steal resources from the
people who have them. People who meant us little or no
harm until we invaded their country. We allow those
troops to commit horrendous atrocities and hang our
alleged enemies for much less.
We’ve spent years entrusting our futures to our
parents, our governments, the banks and the
corporations who have continually lobbied for their own
interests, and we’ve let them make selfish decisions
that have left our society teetering on the edge of
ruin.
We’re blinded from the information that would really
shock us by stories of sex and sleeze which doesn’t
make the smallest difference to our lives, and so we
have no desire to do anything about the things that
really do. We’ve watched as greed wipes billions of the
worlds stock markets, destroys jobs and lives, and
proves that capitalism is just as corruptible by human
nature as communism.
These are tough times but we seek solace in our friends
and Co-Conspirators, we make small differences in each
other’s lives, and dream that we can make real
progress.
