Facebook is to be renamed Meta – apparently. But a
ruse by any other name still stinks.
So – globally – while we await the outcome of COP26
and what Thunberg so ably spelled out as “blah blah blah” there are already 1.4
billion climate refugees. Though – as a refugee expert explained to me – the
climate crisis is not one of the legal listed categories for refugee status
even now!
Meanwhile the world’s billionaires show us the
gruesome future; one where we fritter away time and resources on nonsense while
the clock ticks. Musk spent billions proving he could quite pointlessly and
fruitlessly get it up. That old fart Branson also spent the wealth of a small
country proving he too is a space cadet.
With the announcement of Fb’s new name, I was
reminded of sitting in Glasgow airport (awaiting an arrival) and there was a
guy two seats away wearing a VR headset. His body was present but clearly his mind was elsewhere as his intermittent disconcerting
and disconnected chuckles and odd jerks and small disjointed movements
proclaimed. I can only say it was like sitting in public next to someone
masturbating, which seems apt. But with Musk / Branson / Besos it’s self-indulgence
on a gargantuan scale.
Zuckerberg
and Clegg – ignoring the harm their algorithms have done especially to young
women and girls - simply continue their virtual kiddy fiddling while Rome burns
– after announcing the ridiculous name change and plans to move to the
Metaverse.
We’ve all seen the movie...
Here in the UK, we don’t need to wait for the
planet to become uninhabitable for humans because we chose suicide by Brexit.
UK rivers are
full of untreated shit
The budget was a load of shit (see my first Tedtalk below)
COP26 is shaping up to be a pile of shit
Brexshit
is an entirely unpolished turd
Boris Johnson doesn’t give a shit
The pavements are covered in shit (more so since the
shit-brained went out and bought millions of dogs during lockdown)
Thatcher’s privatisation shovelled shit loads of
money to the wealthy which is why Britain is a wasteland of stripped public
assets and thanks to the privatised
water companies - why the rivers are now bobbing with shit
This government’s handling of covid was uber shit
The £billions wasted on profiteering and
incompetence since March 2020 makes us all feel shitty
Lord Frost has shit for brains and is working on a
fish fight with France to muddy the already stinking swamp waters of populist
politics.
Remember – it’s only the billionaires who can really escape. That leaves another 7++ billion of us…
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This week do check out my very first Ted talk ft Ted Baker