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The Failure of Politics, voting is a waste of time.

Like most of life's mysteries, no one knows how we ended up with a first-past-the-post voting system that ill-serves the voting public and makes it virtually impossible for new parties to mount an effective challenge to the two main parties. Once politics was about ideologies but that was at a brief moment in time, long gone now. Now, politics is about playing a board game called Duplicity, the aim of the game is to stay in as long as you can - serving no one but yourself whilst encouraging citizens to vote for more of the same every five years and having the audacity to call this pointless charade democratic.

Philosopher, Slavoj Zizek, describes voting as pseudo-activity, driven by the urge to 'be active', to 'participate’. The act of voting provides a contented mask, he says, to disguise the pointlessness of the activity. (Guardian, Sept. 2007)

eCAP rejects Absurdity

Golly lost his place on marmalade jars in 2001. But long before that the Absurdists were mounting their assault, in the early 1980s, when Mr Golly lost his job at Enid Blyton's Toytown garage. He was replaced by white Mr Sparks, that smacks of racism.

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Reject wellbeing, mindfulness, and every other slice of happy clapping nonsense coming from Downing Street.

 

 

Reject Care Homes: Waiting Rooms for Death

 

Michael Parkinson, acting as New Labour's 'dignity tzar' once described 'care' homes for elderly citizens "as little more than waiting rooms for death".

Parkinson's report makes you wonder why people bother with this waiting room system and don't just go straight to the undertaker. Picture the scene, up and down every high street throughout the land, old duffers, well passed their sell by date, sleeping rough outside the Co-Op Funeral Directors. No doubt Parkinson will be there, handing out free biros and touting over 50s’ insurance schemes.

 

Reject Death Insurance, even if some old codger like Michael Parkinson is offering a free biro 'just for enquiring'.

 

Have you seen those nice old people on afternoon television worrying about being a burden when they depart and telling you all about their decision to take out some over-50s insurance plan. They tell you how much better they feel now they have done it. Why should they worry about what happens when the lights go out? They should go on a cruise around the world.

Be aware that if you decide to take out one of these plans that if you miss a payment you lose everything, if you want to stop paying, you lose everything. And if you keep paying until you are 90 or die, then you most certainly pay in far more than your plan pays out. In short, these plans are a con, unless you are really quite unwell and intend to die quite soon, then take out a plan and someone will be quids in.

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Reject the cashless society... who does it help?

 

Not you! The high speed race towards a cashless society is being driven by the banks and governments. Their purpose, data manipulation and technological snooping and ultimately, social control. Imagine a future scenario in which your every purchase can be monitored and matched to your medical records, and your decision to purchase that supersized meal is removed by a 'refuse to serve' notice determined by a machine.

Be aware that in the USA 80% of purchases are made via electronic transactions and in Sweden only 3% of of transactions are made with currency - even the beggars have card readers.

Reject Smart Meters... they're just not smart!

 

These meters are yet another example of technological creep. These meters supply frequency of use data to the energy supplier. Such data has already been supplied to law enforcement agent in the

 

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eCAP Rejects Banners

Marching around waving banners full of demands and slogans has had its day. All banners do is tell the enermy what you want. So governments read your banners, throw you a few crumbs and then you go away. March without banners, march in silence then you'll get them worried - leave them clueless, that's all they deserve

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Reject wellbeing, mindfulness, and every other slice of happy clapping nonsense coming from Downing Street.

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