Manifesting the End of Civilisation?
If you were to take everything in the UK's right-wing media at face value, then you'd think that we were living in some kind of third world Hell hole, with a collapsing economy, crumbling infrastructure, and drug-ravaged cities overrun by violent, mostly foreign, criminals. Either that, or you'd think that we were living in some kind of police state, with your right to hurl racist insults in the name of free speech, being severely curtailed by a dictatorial government led by the reincarnation of Josef Stalin. Yet, step outside of your front door and it all looks very different. In fact, it all looks much the same as it has for the past few decades. People aren't being murdered in their beds on an hourly basis, women aren't being raped in broad daylight in shopping centres by foreign infidels and people aren't offering you drugs on every street corner. Hospitals, courts, schools etc still function, buses and trains still run (albeit usually late, but what's new?) and the bins are still collected (except maybe in Birmingham, where the council is apparently still in dispute with its own refuse collectors). Certainly, prices are up, (but inflation is historically something of a national institution in the UK), much of the public sector is badly underfunded, but still functions, crimes still occur and the police are as ineffective as ever, but none of this is indicative of the sort of end-of-civilisation scenario painted by the press. Most of it is the result of government policies - primarily the economic mismanagement of fourteen years of Tory governments and the disaster of Brexit, which has undermined the UK's economy. Of course, if there was still a Tory government in office, all of these things could be happening, but the right-wing media wouldn't be framing it the same way.
No, it would all be the fault of the victims, be they the unemployed, the poor, immigrants, single mothers, the disabled, or whoever, not the government. But as we have a Labour government in office, it is instead all evidence of an impending apocalypse brought about by the government's determination to punish the Daily Mail reading middle classes by flooding the country with murderous immigrants, cutting public services and turning the police into the Gestapo, unreasonably expecting them to enforce the law, particularly traffic law and public order laws, regardless of whether you are middle class or not! Such laws are only for the horrible working classes! So day in, day out, they print their hysterical headlines about how 'Asylum seekers ate my Granny' or 'My daughter was raped by a coke crazed one-legged transsexual benefits claimant wearing a turban', seemingly in the hope that if they keep imposing their false vision of the state of the UK on the public then maybe they can actually force its physical manifestation. At the very least, the hope to be able to create a false perception in the minds of the public. What can we do to counter this propaganda war aimed at creating sort of new reality which will have people running into the arms of Nigel Farage for protection, (although why anyone would think that some drunken old racist could protect them from armies of homicidal foreign brigands is beyond me)? Obviously, it's pointless trying to create an alternative, competing, vision, with most of the media in the hands of wealthy right-wing bastards.
What the government should do, I think, is to employ some of those Tibetan monks. You know, the Buddhist ones who, through intense mental training can, through meditation, manifest Tulpas, unreal beings who have the appearance and substance of real humans. Because, surely, if they can individually do that, then surelt, en masse, they could manifest a whole new reality. Just to make out sure, they could get them to train groups of Labour staffers in the meditation technique, so that they can reinforce the projection of this new reality. The fact is that they wouldn't have to create this reality in all of its detail, just create a thought form version of it so powerful, that it can supplant the Daily Hate inspred version from the public's minds. It wouldn't even have to be some kind of projection of a false paradise, just a powerful projection of how things really are. OK, I know it all sounds utterly fantastical, but Hell, we're living in an age where Donald Trump is US President, imposing fascism on his country and trying to buy or steal Greenland, so, to be frank, anything must be possible!

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