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Thread #133625 Message #3033740
Posted By: Fred McCormick
16-Nov-10 - 02:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Royal Wedding Announcement
Subject: RE: BS: Royal Wedding Announcement
If messrs Windsor and Middleton wish to marry, I have absolutely no desire to stop them. I just wish that they'd do it in private as ordinary private citizens. What I object to, apart from the existence of the monarchy itself, is the pomp and ceremony and mass media coverage and cost to the taxpayer which this event will attract; to say nothing of the way in which it will be used to divert public attention from the real issues of the day, such as mass redundancies, spending cuts, and the destruction and diminution of every single public service which Cameron and Co. can get their hands on.
Friedrich Engels invented a very good term for the way the masses are duped by this kind of nonsense. He called it false consciousness.