Very high numbers of homeless people on the streets, cost of living on the rise, an autocratic Prime Minister who can, and does, bomb at will, zero hours contracts, shit wages. We have poor workplace health and safety, spying, stifling of dissent (“Prevent”, police spying, physical brutality, etc.), food banks; slave labour abroad, and on and on and on. Considering all of this which exists in the present day, what does the state and capitalism have to do before we, the working class people, stand up and shout “enough is enough”? What do they have to do before we finally do something about it?

The things which I have listed here are small, but by no means unimportant, elements of what is going on. This will continue if we just sit back and tolerate it. It will continue unless we pay more interest in the real world around us, rather than the opium of the X-Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, I’m A Celebrity, and other bland rubbish. Of course we all love to kick back and forget about the shit that goes on in the real world, I do. I love my TV shows, films and music. I love to go out with mates. This is only ‘normal’ and healthy. What I am saying is that if we choose to constantly turn our heads away from what is going on, things are not going to chance, but only get worse. Our apathy is a license for capitalism to do these things to us, and others.

Think about this, let it sink in.