Our Betters Make Plans (2)
The World Economic Forum’s Ida Auken wants to correct your primitive lifestyle:
Embrace the upgrade, you filthy savages:
This is Ida Auken (WEF Young Global Leader) who wrote:
“Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better.”
Here she is wanging on about using your neighbour’s car. pic.twitter.com/tbKT5MJzTR
— James Melville 🚜 (@JamesMelville) July 20, 2024
Because having neighbours and strangers, people you don’t know, taking your car, apparently at random, would be terribly progressive and super-convenient, and “fun,” and “not annoying.”
More on Ms Auken’s vision of tomorrow can be found here:
All these things, these beastly capitalist products, would be “free.”
And not yours.
Update, via the comments:
If the above sounds like an evasive, rather coy way of saying, “Everything will belong to the state,” or, “Surrender all territory,” then hold that thought.
Update 2:
In the comments, Brother John quips, rather pithily,
Indeed. We might also pause to consider the endless glamour of so-called “social” housing projects, where decidedly anti-social behaviour is not exactly uncommon, or public transport, or any number of other areas in which responsibility is dispersed and nebulous. Take away the territorial aspect, the ownership – the concept that Ms Auken finds so bothersome and passé – and things are generally much more likely to tend towards degradation.
Sometimes quite rapidly and to an eye-widening extent.
The human urge to have some territory over which other people – and the state – do not have total dominion is not a trivial thing.
Or, as Mr Muldoon puts it,
But hey, progress.
I’m obliged to get feedback from this crowd on an important issue;
Aren’t cucumber sandwiches the precursor to avocado toast? Both fairly bland, almost tasteless, fruits on bread.
I too am a mongrel: Brit, French, Dutch, and German.
[ Waves bottle of wine in front of webcam. Wine from ancestral French estate. ]
It occurs to me that some overseas readers may now assume that British people sit around wolfing down bowls of clotted cream – just clotted cream, mind – and gnawing on dry Yorkshire puddings, alone on a plate, untouched by gravy or anything else.
Even I have had British-style scones with clotted cream and jam.
Also, on GBBO, they always show the puddings as filled with savory stuff, so that part I get.
How can they be dry when they are baked in a pan well greased with beef drippings from the beef roast? I get the impression that in England they are traditionally eaten with gravy on top, but they are also tasty smeared with fresh butter.
[ Brings wine bottle closer to webcam. Increases ostentatious waving. ]
Lamb and mint together – utter savages.
I believe that is what you get after eating most of the stuff on that list, but they will pass.
Yes, it’s usually part of a roast Sunday dinner, not a dessert. Just so we’re clear. Also quite good with sausages and oceans of onion gravy.
The last time I had clotted cream was several years ago at a wake, with scones and tiny pastries. Quite enjoyable, all things considered.
Just going to leave this here, for no reason whatsoever.
One of my great, great, great grandfathers was this guy:
Couldn’t bring myself to watch the video, but…
Ms. Auken, who owns that very fine microphone you are blithering into? Who owns the hair-care tools used on your immaculate “do”? (So casual and modern!) Who owns the aircraft you flew to UAE aboard? Who owns the pristine hotel suite you are currently vacationing in? Who owns the camera that took this video? Who owns the mill that produced the fine fabric of your shirt?
Moron. Evil moron.
[ Retrieves bottle of German wine. Waves both. ]
Froggies and Bosch! And there’s Dutch cheese in the fridge, bwa-hah-hah-hah!
Must admit I had assumed a Banoffee pie was American. Because, well why wouldn’t it be?
I’m quite surprised not to see “Smack Barm Pea Wet” on that list.
The trouble with a Pie Barm is that it’s a bit on the dry side being basically a pie-in-a-pie. A bit like a bread sandwich.
So you can replace the pie with something even cheaper and greasier (‘smack’ is a battered, fried, slice of potato) and lubricate it with the “discharge that comes off of mushy peas“.
Don’t pretend you aren’t tempted.
Seems like Episode 3 has really impressed him 😀
I must say how stunning and brave it is to add a “coven of communist lesbian space witches” to the lore of
Gay Wars, sorry, Star Wars.Nothing like the word discharge to fire up the appetite.
Now, about that Sith question??
Skipping past the futility of pointing out how stupid Ida Auken’s idea is, I think it would be very instructive to know who funds her election campaigns. Probably a whole WORLD of information hiding there, if you know what I mean, nudge wink say no more…
What’s wrong with that? It’s a nice combination.
communist lesbian space witches
Band name? Yassssss…
Blacks Can’t Be Racist™
The Bee is never wrong.
it’s ok, this New slavery, because the slaves aren’t really people, right?
The Morlocks will eventually get theirs.
“You go, girl fire.”
Watching Star Wars “fans” melt down over the fire scene is an excellent example of just how unthinkingly reactionary the entire fanbase has become. They really are bunch of toxic manbabies at this point. A couple of “influencers” get angry about the fire – in a series where TIE fighters go WRAAAAAW pewpewpew WRAAAAAAW in airless space, and an N95 mask is sufficient to protect you on an airless asteroid – to gin up the nerdrage and the entire fanbase loses their minds.
Panem et circenses.
I see Karl beat me to the episode 3 link. Well done.
There were rumblings that this episode would destroy the background of Star Wars, but it seems even the Critical Drinker was surprised at the size of the crash.
Not just that burning a book could destroy a stone fortress and destroy the coven of lesbian commies. Not just that a Jedi would hand his light sabre to a girl who had never handed one in her life. Not just that the leader of the lesbian club (that’s made for you and me) would claim that the Thread cannot be used for violence, and minutes later do just that.
Not even that two lesbians can create twins, only to fight over them afterwards with one saying, “I carried them,” and the other somehow trumping that by saying, “I created them!”
It’s that, as one commenter put it, “Disney has made a show where even in a galaxy far, far away…the black kids still don’t have a Father!”
You know, when gays were closeted, we got Oscar Wilde, Christian Dior, La Cage aux Folles, Liberace, John Waters, and Freddie Mercury, Now, we get drag queen story hours, The Acolyte, and Doctor Was.*
* Note: Statement made for ironic use only. Use only as prescribed.
As I’ve said before, I’m not a big Star Wars fan. I don’t care about it anywhere near enough to get annoyed. I belatedly watched Andor, which is supposed to be one of the better TV efforts, a neglected gem, but I found it underwhelming. Rather hard to care about and at no point compelling.
If a drama is badly paced, I tend to lose interest.
[ Checks Ephemera links one last time. ]
The panem is weeviled and the circenses moth-eaten.
Always choose the lesser of two weevils.
“Between two weevils, I always pick the one I never tried before.” ― Mae West, probably
Watching Disney shills excuse burning camp fires in the vacuum of space because “It’s just a children’s fantasy story about magical space wizards with laser swords bruuuuuuuh” never gets old.
Most of the sci-fi fans I’ve known will continue to buy tickets. [ Rolls eyes. ]
That astonishingly shallow and unconvincing piece works exactly the opposite way to which it is intended. I love the city, but there’s something about her attempts to persuade me that make me want to be nothing more than a backwards hick in the ‘abandoned houses’ in the ‘small 19th century villages’ that she deplores.
Infants live that way and they’re happy. Mostly.
Back at her ilk with this classic: “Keep the change, ya filthy animal”
They have the good taste not to want the pickled eggs.
How do you think they got to be elderly, after all?
Re: public cars
I should like to share the Israeli grunge classic “Company Car”.
Unfortunately, I could not find any version with captions in English (Zionist Overlord #43 is getting his ass whipped for the oversight), but the images in the video convey an idea of the lyrics. Except for verse “delivering a live calf”. I hope. Must confess I didn’t check…
Anyone ever change anything they own, to make it more yours? Say, painting your home or your car, or even just changing the strings on your guitar? Kiss that goodbye. You can’t change that which is shared and owned by the state. You see, everything is still owned, just not by you. Sorry madam, but it’s not more fun to share, it’s more fun to own and to tell you to pound sand, because the most important thing I own is my mind, and you’re not getting that either you collectivist bovine twit.
I’m not sure if this thread is even active or not, but I just read it and I feel compelled to say one thing – Daniel Ream is a f***ing retarded idiot. Seriously, I am so effing tired of people like him. Daniel, you are why the right lost the culture war. You are the problem. Your argument of “a show has a fantasy element to it, so there are no rules and people who get upset when nonsensical thing X happened are being silly” is so far beyond stupid that I really don’t know how else to respond to it other than just to mock your idiocy and point out that the left won the culture war because of people like you. I refuse to take it anymore seriously than that or pretend that people like Daniel deserve a more respectful response. You want respect, show it. A series having a sci-fi or fantasy element does not mean that rules don’t matter, or that anything can happen, or that bad plots and writing somehow don’t count because space wizards. Daniel – YOU. ARE. THE. PROBLEM. You are why we lost control of our society to a group of freaks who hate us, and you need to sit down, shut the eff up, and stay out of our way while the rest of us try to fix the damage YOU caused.