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WTF happened to hope?

Posted on by philipdodson

What the FUCK happened to hope, idealism and belief in making a meaningful difference for humanity?

It got flushed down the toilet by the greedy, profit-driven industrial machine and its owners, who bought the politicians, bought the schools, the lawyers, the banks, the shares, in fact, the whole lot. Then turned us into compliant cogs in their machine. They have been controlling us with their ‘religions’ and myths of money, capitalism, democracy, certainty, and offering us trinkets in order to consume shit we don’t need.

They have created hate, cynicism, judgement, war, poverty, criticism, and division so that we fight each other and ignore what they do.

Well, it is enough, we want to live with hope, ideals, love, kindness, compassion, empathy and we want to see a world free of greed, judgement, hate, anger, cheating, manipulating, shitting on people and killing them too.

It’s enough.

Hope lives on, for example, Corbyn, he’s the start of a new hope, he is something different in a field of dull black and white, bland, safe, politicians, all offering the same dreary compliant life of debt and slavery for most, JC is offering a new hope, and once you have a why, once you are prepared to be different, sticking to your values, and once you can inspire people, they become your evangelists, they become the people who spread the word for you.

Look at the surge in turnout in the UK election.

We need to all rise up and be counted and back hope, back people who are prepared to stick to their values and be prepared to stand out from the crowd. We need them more than ever to help us overcome the industrialised machine that has turned us all into debt-laden compliant slaves of their myths and system.

Rise up, become a leader you want to see or become an evangelist for someone who inspires something different. We have a responsibility to ourselves and the human race to act.

Hope is there if we choose it.

It’s sadly not about ‘how you tell ’em’

Posted on by philipdodson


It’s often said ‘don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story’. 

Film posters often say things like ‘totally amazing’ cutting off the true quote ‘totally amazing for 5 minutes then utter crap’. 

People also say ‘make it look as good as you can’ or ‘polish it up a bit’. 

On the tube I read an advert for a broadsheet leading newspaper that said ‘our manifesto, the best….’ then underneath ‘we’ve correctly predicted every General Election and referendum this decade’. 

So that’s 2 elections and 2 referendums. Each referendum was ‘yes’ or ‘no’ so 50/50, just toss a coin you don’t need the newspaper. Then the General Election are fairly similar it’s either one or other who win, Labour or Tory. 

One can assume their predictions we’re poor, for these easily called results, in the previous decade, otherwise they would have said ‘we predicted every election for 20 years’. Slightly more impressive. 

The thing is all that marketing splosh and gloss is wasted. 

Better to be brutally honest about what they are good at not trying gain readers with wishy washy statements that few will fall for. 

Tell ’em as it is, because if we’re good why would we need to deceive people? If we’re not good, then get better, people always work out deceit and remember it long after. 

If  we are great at what we do and honest about it, what will happen is our fans will also tell others and become our evangelistic advocates. 

Better than any tube ad we could place. 

Be honest, be good. Simple.