Today’s priority is to turn us all into zombies

COMMUNITIES have changed over centuries, in accordance with beliefs held at the time.

The tribes who built Stonehenge or stone circles in the Orkneys shared purposes completely absent in our society today. The motivation of today’s society is “dog eat dog”, an indifference to fellow citizens, unless they are personal friends.

The ambition to build Stonehenge meant that half of the tribe must devote itself to securing food and fuel for the other half of the tribe who were fully engaged, for a lifetime, in transporting huge stones across the countryside.

Perhaps they alternated in their tasks, since all were motivated by that first priority, that the temple must be nearer completion before they died.

They would have had no countenance with a plank of capitalist economics, that a degree of unemployment is essential, in order to limit the demands of the workers for better conditions. The scale of workers’ wages is restrained by the useful fear that they will be displaced, by the unemployed, if they are restive.

Later societies produced monasteries and convents where some people withdrew from society, to create special communities, accepting total obedience to the rule of the order, separated from wider society.

Feudalism was a society of divided sections, monarchy and nobility who owned and controlled everything, and peasants who served them with no power of any kind, unless and until the Black Death cut their numbers and so made their contribution important.

Today, economics is built on the intention of commercial advertising and media to cheat everyone by telling deliberate lies to children, to become adults who surrendered their minds, as zombies, in a different form of feudalism.

CN Westerman, by email