Christmas In The 21st Century

Christmas in the 21st Century

There’s too much given away for free.
The artists are strangled and can’t make a living.
They have to bang the doors down just to be noticed.

Intellectual starvation, as we are pushed to the point of madness by our increasing work loads.
Who is in charge? Has anyone got a sensible plan?
Drive them harder, reduce the costs, get more out of them, employ less of them.
“Oh they’ll find a job, don’t worry!”
Just train them up, educate them and let them compete for work on the shopfloor of life.
They can always clean the toilets or deliver pizzas.

They can’t even join the army!
No one wants to pay for an army, full of deadweight.
Countries may fall apart but we don’t need an army to make things work again!
Let the Taliban destroy Karachi, or Islamic State sit on Mosul forever!
We don’t care, it’s not our problem!

Our young can join the killers.
Plenty of room in their army, they actually need people; the next generation is being groomed for war as we speak.
The war to end all wars, to deliver ancient misinterpretation of religion to the masses,
to lose us all the things we once called progress, like democracy, and decency, open mindedness, and humour.
The modern world lost its way, to be replaced by a return to the middle ages, for the mere reason that we could not find a way to employ our own people sensibly and keep them content.

Here in the West spoiled kids keep their parents working, with their greedy selfish expectations,
ignorant of the true values of life and the place they may struggle to find in it,
while the adults strive harder to pay mortgages which drift further out of reach, or rents to fund the lifestyles of the made.
Christmas seems to be the only way to keep the economy afloat!

So cut out the big business fantasies, the making of millionaires and start making a harmonious friendly, all inclusive and full employment world, where people are paid for their talents, or used in constructive ways, for the good of all. Can we learn anything from our mistakes?