Poor but happy, that’s the BBC’s ideal world.
Low carbon footprints, sustainable consumption and sing songs and hugs for Christmas. BBC bliss.
The BBC has long been banging away that ‘consumerism’ is the root of all evil…despite also banging the drum that tells us the Poor must have more to be happy….just where do all those jobs, and the wealth, that gives the Poor more come from? From making widgets that people then buy…or ‘consume’.
But you may have noticed over the Christmas period the BBC’s inner Scrooge has been ever more present.
Today is no exception with You and Yours is with Peter White, talking about what makes us happy. Do those Christmas presents bring us happiness or do we need something deeper?
Apparently studies show that consumerism and materialism are harmful….a ‘curse’ on us all.
You don’t need that new car to make you happy, just a smile from your neighbour, you don’t need that gucci little handbag for that inner glow of satisfaction…all you need is a happy family gathering, you don’t need the latest kick-ass X-Box game….just your Mom reading a bedtime story to you.
Happiness is knowing someone loves you.
The BBC really is the new priesthood.
I would amend that to “YOU being poor but happy, that’s the BBC’s ideal world” because they wouldn’t want to give up their taxpayer funded bulging expense account, taxis, champagne, inflated wages and payoffs etc.
“The BBC really is the new priesthood”
Indeed, in that it will lie to brainwash you, sap your wealth for the greater (their) good and slap you down should you deviate from the path.
The bbc is he new priest hood!
Exactly. I’ve said it so many times on this blog. Marxism and socialism has hit the point of being a new religion. The state has become god, and they have taken the cloak of the moral highground from the Church. Gramsci specificaly called for this.
The fall in Christianity, and the lefts hostility to it, is symptomatic of this. The people who would have flocked to religion for simple moral guidance have now become “liberals”.
This is bad, as C K Chesterton put it – the old chistian virtues have been unleashed and wreck havoc as they no longer have context.
They are right in one way . Nothing makes me happier than knowing I don’t pay their telly tax .
We don’t need that new X-Box?
First Yorkshireman: And you try and tell the young poor people of today that, they won’t believe you.
All: No, no, nope.
The irony is that this reverence for poverty partly stems from Christianity in the first place. There is a reason why the roots of the British Labour Party were so intimately entangled with those of Methodism and why so much of the C of E today resembles not, as was once quipped, ‘the Tory Party at prayer’ but, today, quite the reverse.
There’s a lot more at work here than Marx and his disciples and talk of socialism having replaced Christianity, as if the two haven’t been quite closely connected, is to ignore their shared history.
yes and no.
Socialism did to a degree, but Marxism didn’t. Gramsci admired the structure and power the Catholic church had, and sought to mimic it.
And its the Fabian arm of Labour which is the biggest issue. The working class arm is the one linked to methodism.
“You don’t need that new car to make you happy, just a smile from your neighbour”
Wrong, i need that new car….and a smile from my neighbour would turn most folk to stone!
The other week I shared a link to the chappie who seems able to access all sorts of internal goings-on from the world’s most trusted rats-in-a-sack corporation.
This one was about new middle management juggles, complete with what goodies make the grade.
As I recall not only did cars feature across the board, but serious one-upping spats on parking slots & petrol allowances too.
Must say, those fighting hardest to score these did not come across as the happiest of souls.
The happiest places in the world. Saudi better than the US of course.
‘The American Dream is alive but less compelling. Washington’s heated immigration debate has perhaps begun to convey an impression that the world’s “huddled masses” are not as welcome as they once were. In the Middle East and North Africa, where post-Arab Spring turbulence creates high levels of political uncertainty, a surprisingly high number of people don’t want to move. Among those who do, Saudi Arabia is more appealing than America’.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-25496299
The top comment, by a wide margin, is interesting.
May also explain why they are closed now too.
Another lie about immigration from the BBC. That inscription held by the Statue of Liberty was never intended to include illegals.
BBC = Scum, Liars, and Propagandists
Would that be this Saudi Arabia?
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/19/saudi-arabia-deports-60000-immigrants-in-government-crackdown/
Or as the BBC would have it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25127368
What are they trying to tell us?
3% would like to move to Saudi Arabia?
Happy new year all 🙂 xxx
If this is the case then why did the BBC not think that £500,000 payout to Mark Byford was incentive enough for him to work his notice and instead paid him £1 Million? Accodring the this article all he needed as a smile and a hug