May be its because I've been reading Noam Chompsky, but I've been thinking about the various methods of social control that exist. The interesting thing I'm finding is that as I look harder at many aspects of accepted thinking the more I realise how controlled we are.
So this will be the first in a series of postings as I think about such things.
OK, so here goes... House Prices, carrot and stick in one!
We're coming to wards the end of a housing, sorry Property, boom in the UK and many people are feeling pretty smug about how much more their house is worth. Great, a happy population, good little consumers, just what is wanted. Then reality bites, interest rates rise a little and everyone gets nervous, so don't rock the boat, don't put your now huge mortgage payments at risk. Want to complain about the way things are done, better not we can't afford to risk it. So what to do? I know lets push house prices up a little further so we feel better again, then we can re-mortgage and buy a TV costing more than a months wages!
To quote Gordon Geko "Greed is good!", but what is relied on is not their greed, that's a given, its yours and this greed is blinding you to the fact that its being used to control you.
Could the government have kept a lid on house prices? I don't know, but I think that a cycle of boom and bust (but not too much) is just what they want. Keep us happy with a little boom and then scare us in to keeping quite with a little bust. Ask your self this, in every recession recently who paid, did you ever see a politician, a senior civil servant or a major company director scatching around to pay the rent or the mortgage or a food bill, no they seem to ride throught these pretty comfortably if you ask me. May be there is the odd sacrificial lamb but, some how, as a rule there is one group of people who never get too hurt by changing economic winds.
"The question is not am I paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?"
Monday, June 06, 2005
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