earlier, whilst eating supper, mused over the level of indoctrination in our society. I believe that protectionism is necessary in our local, regional, and national economies, yet everytime I say it I feel dirty, like an enemy; What Im certain I feel is the brain-washing, that has heavily assosciated anything approaching protectionism with bad bad bad. I thought I had unplugged myself from the propaganda machine over two years ago, but still I cant say the word protectionism without feeling the weight of its blackening by the media. How could protection be blackened to such an extreme. A mother protecting a child, a gardener protecting a fragile young seedling, fine; a nation after the collapse of communism protecting its economy while trying to take its first baby steps in a world of no-mercy capitalism? - NO! Naughty! Bad protection! Bad protection! Socialism! Fascism! Terrorism! Nazis! screams the voice of societal conditioning. No, let the baby cope by itself and be kicked about, let the seed be trampled. How dare those nasty mothers and gardeners try to protect the delicate and vulnerable? Anyone who would like to tell me that a free market has done Poland well, can award themselves a simpleton point right now. Free market Poland, an economic success, according to GDP growth statistics, or in other words, according to the number of people who can no longer find anything more worthwhile to do in their lives than to escape a declining reality in front of ever wider tv screens, or the number of people with viral infections being prescribed antibiotics, for which they pay, or the number of times we all have to replace our low-quality furniture because it wears out and breaks as fast as they can make it, or the amount of sugary snacks that addicted children gobble down everyday, or the figure on the electricity bill as parents, stricken with an all-pervading fear of society, shut those same chidren away in front of computers while the sun goes by unappreciated and unmissed. To hell with GDP.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:46:38 +0000
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