There's None So Blind

 I hate to say it but I despair at the "Blinkered Philistine Pig Ignorance" (Monty Python Architect Sketch) of the people you see on the TV, YouTube, Podcasts etc.  In complete denial even when faced with facts presented to them that are their very own facts! 

Last night they were all getting irate that someone had the temerity to point out acknowledged facts so much so that they were huffing and puffing and trying to interrupt the chaps who's turn it was to speak and not just one of them either.  Presented with facts gets these people angry and they then twist and weasel their way and think that we cannot see them or hear them or see their body language. I hope they are running scared but I doubt it.  I don't think they realise what is coming for them.  People are rightly fed up and the vast majority see through all of this and are demanding change.

It still, however, surprises me (perhaps it shouldn't) that people I thought were a bit brighter don't see it either.  Defending the indefensible and prattling on about stuff that a child would realise isn't true or even partly true.  I think because it doesn't happen to them (yet) they cannot see the societal change that has happened certainly in the past ten years but arguably longer and as it hasn't really affected them they continue on their socialist liberal value system.  We are poorer now than we were in the 90s and it perhaps is that boil the Frog approach, they just don't see or perhaps are not affected by these changes.

Locally we have had massive failures in our Water infrastructure depriving some areas for days on end and weeks of problems.  As a consumer we have seen around 30% increase in the past few years.  Food has almost doubled by my estimation in 5 or 6 years looking at my monthly expenditure,  Power bills probably doubled or tripled and people are silent or consider it OK.  It isn't sustainable and yet these smug arse politicians, regulators and businesses just spit in our faces and we don't do anything about it.  The reckoning will come I am sure, it needs to come quickly though and things need to be resolved.