tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post6886045882207408454..comments2023-07-04T16:57:28.929+01:00Comments on Where's the Benefit?: Conversations with my cab driverLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714918894319998184noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-85070226342787261382011-05-18T12:36:58.517+01:002011-05-18T12:36:58.517+01:00@Southpaw: It does no good to deride Lisa's ta...@Southpaw: It does no good to deride Lisa's taxi driver and everyone else by extension. I've talked to extremely intelligent, professionally successful, socially active people who just have no clue what is happening WRT disability. Society programmes people with the Personal Tragedy Model of Disability, the idea that 'the disabled' are lesser being who need to be taken care of, and that society will do it, pretty much from the cradle, and unfortunately those views are so deeply seated that you need to individually grab them by the chin and show them your reality to get them to understand that this isn't the case anymore.<br /><br />The programming may be something out of 1984, but if we dismiss everyone who has been seduced by it as mindless drones then are we any better than Big Brother?DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-10745287508946103842011-05-17T21:58:15.344+01:002011-05-17T21:58:15.344+01:00As much as I hate to demean my fellow humans; trut...As much as I hate to demean my fellow humans; truth cannot so easily be masked when it is so plainly in view.<br /><br />Unfortunately the taxi driver is simply another example of the mass Proletarian chunks of society whom: Have been transformed into sleeping "repeaters" incapable of doing anything else except blindly accepting the mainstream media propaganda as gospel.<br /><br />He probably believes the "Big Society" is going to magically swoop down resplendently astride a winged white Pegasus; depositing bags of gold coins into the laps of "genuine's." Then proceeding to hind-kick everyone else back into work. <br /><br />A combination of continual media brainwashing, diet full of soft-drink horrors such as Aspartame and possible over-flouridation of the tap water in his area have almost certainly contributed significantly to this.<br /><br />He is happy in his daily repetitive world. He works and reads the gutter tabloids, goes home, drinks beer, zones out to his favorite "x-factor" or sporting mush on tv, gets bombarded with fast-moving news stories repeated about three times throughout the programme that backup his earlier tabloid reading and then goes to bed only to start again tomorrow. (Obviously I'm giving a relevant skimmed version here.)<br /><br />As long as none of this is disrupted; he can probably pootle along virtually indefinitely in <br />this state without minding in the slightest. <br /><br />It keeps all that happy Seretonin flowing in his Brain, subconciously he does not want this to be disrupted by reality so he goes into auto-denial mode whenever someone questions his tabloid-derived status-quo comprehension of the issue concerned.<br /><br />In a way; you cannot but help feel sorry for these sort of people. Be it months or years, when the cuts/collapse finally filters it's way down to them: They are going to awake with <br />one heck of a shock. Perhaps that erstwhile voice in the wilderness (or back of taxi cab as the case here may be): Was worth listening to after all.<br /><br />I append this post with some appropiate Orwell.<br /><br />southpaw.<br /><br /><br />"Parsons was Winston's fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. <br /><br />He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms-one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended." - George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 2southpawhttp://notapplicable.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-43239025911480783892011-05-11T18:22:55.121+01:002011-05-11T18:22:55.121+01:00I've had several similar experiences recently ...I've had several similar experiences recently -- 'well obviously you're not faking it, but everyone else is'. You can poke any number of holes in it, but it's been repeated so often by the tabloids that it's become an article of faith.DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-66067935780667945332011-05-11T17:27:20.708+01:002011-05-11T17:27:20.708+01:00I can't helpo wondering if he will do a lot of...I can't helpo wondering if he will do a lot of thinking over the next few hours, and whether actually your arguments will actually change his mind in the long term. Hats off to your attempts to expose the truth. <br />Why can't papers actually print truth for once - and how come they aren't being pulled up for inciting hate?Hannah Ensorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12228122568368871809noreply@blogger.com