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www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/13/lockdowns-uk-true-character-nation-snitches-useless-leaders
And the second reason, I think, is this: the Tories recognise our natural propensity to snitch and so has felt very comfortable with the ambiguities and holes in the rules because it means we spend our time getting mad at each other instead of the people – them – who are charged with fixing the crisis. Letting us aggressively judge each other for not doing lockdown right is actually the lockdown strategy.
Letting us aggressively judge each other for not doing lockdown right is actually the lockdown strategy
It is part of a strategy to shift blame, or at least share blame, yes. As was the introduction of the tier system along with bringing in local leaders to the decision making process. Andy Burnham handed it to them on a plate.....look at those bloody left wing nuts trying to stop us saving people! ah no, but lots of people are angry with the Unions and the likes of Andy Burnham. Burnham because he was trying to save the local economy and prevent real hardship whilst unfortunately being seen to prevent aversive action to protect health. The unions trying to protect health but inadvertently being seen as the enemy of the parent worker.
I agree though that people as individuals and as groups with shared agendas such as Us4Them have played their part.
Its interesting to me the degree to which Bojo and chums our elected representatives believe that they can only be held accountable at the ballot box. Most people also think this. I don't. It suits the State and its agenda to have us believe that we have no power. The real truth is that power is shared precariously between the state and its citizens. They rely upon us believing we have democracy, whilst at the same time thinking we lack power, all the time tacitly threatening to use violence against us. Why might that be? The advanced capitalist state most fears its own people. The most present threat to the state comes from within not from other nations.
The Government are constantly assessing the mood and trying to prevent insurrection. There were so many loud voices on here and all over social media screaming to keep schools open. No man has ever started a revolution, but women have !
I don't think we have a "natural propensity to snitch" but we do allow ourselves to be divided. There is nothing natural about snitching. Yes, years of ideology that individuates the self so that we feel different, special, exceptional, and isolated have certainly I think engendered a sort of feeling that we do not belong together, so we are jealous, avaricious, bullying, unkind and bitter towards others we perceive as having life easier. But this is not "natural" this is both the natural consequences of living in a competitive society that values commodities above peoples but also a deliberate strategy of the state to prevent people's concerns coming back to coalesce around the issue of class.
And it is the working class that are being most effected by this pandemic, although most of them are too bewildered to mount any kind of response. School meals seems to bring people together, the middle class feeling sorry for kids whilst disavowing working class parents from making decisions about their own budgets on the basis that the working class are feckless and therefore responsible for their own sub-optimal existence. The working class mothers now crowing about how wonderful or otherwise their lunch packs are. Na, just give them the bloody money and give them back some pride instead of using the scheme to shovel public money into the back pocket of Dominic Blakemore Tory party donor. Its amazing how these cunts can even make money in a pandemic off the back of the vast inequalities they have caused. Parasite.