Generation Buy by RSH (LSD Magazine issue 8)

On the night of August 6th a series of events would unfold that would plunge London into 4 successive nights of rioting and looting. Regardless of the causes, the underlying issues and the people who partook of the burning and looting acted under a common social forum. Together as the ‘anonymous’ mob they smashed and looted shops, burned cars and caused possibly hundreds of millions in damage. Blame 'big society', blame 'immigrants', blame the 'welfare state', blame rap music, blame whatever thing it is you already don't like. The left blame the conservatives and the right blame the liberals. Too much, not enough. None of that really matters anyway. In the wake of these events politicians point the finger at whatever their parties favorite whipping posts are as proof of their own already set in stone opinions about 'reality'. But the reality is that the world has no real political systems: Communism, democracy, socialism, all play the same game - Capitalism.
 

They all get pushed and shoved by banks and corporations, they all do the bidding of their lobbyists, not their constituents. Politicians are vampires that take from the people they supposedly serve and feed the process of making the rich richer via the corporations they own and run. Society has taught young people today to glorify ownership of goods. They see status in their social circles based on the brand of phone, sneaker and the size of the TV they own. They quantify success based on the ownership of fashionable electronics and clothes. Brand loyalty has replaced gang associations, subculture identity centers on the type of phone chat/messaging system you use. We have, as a culture, created an entire generation whose thought systems are to consume; to buy, to use, to own and to discard.

WRITTEN BY RSH

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