Every single part of human nature has been taken apart, analysed in minute detail and put back together by the Corporate Bastards who know exactly how to sell anything for everything. It's destroyed society, family, life in general.

I had a discussion along these lines with a friend of mine, around 10 years back, he and his wife had come to stay and he was very depressed about his kids, how they wanted this and that, expected it, were almost afraid not to have it, because of the herd instinct at school.

Of course, school is a godsend for Corporate Bastards, because you have entire herds of children to work on, without their parents being around...and so Pester Power was born...

When we live in a world where children are shunned, or beaten up, for not having the right trainers, the right 'name'....then we have lost the plot, bigtime.

We have been living in that world for decades now.

Hopefully, this recession, more than anything, will start to bring back other values, as the Herd begins to realise how they've been manipulated for so very long.

"We got the Recession, they got the Bonuses" was a quote I heard this morning on BBC TV, which stuck in my mind, as an almost rallying call to The Herd to wake up!

And as for those people who...with an ENTIRE beach, or car park, to park either their cars or their bums, but choose to be *right* next door to you...????????? That drives me bats!   

I'm the Lone Wilderbeest who goes right away from the rest of the herd..