Back in the USSR
Monday, March 22, 2010 Simon Hills, associate editor of The Times Magazine, is writing a series of articles for The Free Society entitled "Reflections on a Free Society". This month he argues that that the society in which we now live is like a luxury Soviet Union.
Simon writes:
Today’s celebrities are timorous beasties who for half their lives fly around the world to premieres and film shoots to promote their careers and for the other live self-obsessed, cosseted existences driving in Toyota Priuses between their gated residences. They are fortified not by a convivial smoke and glass of champagne, God forbid, but prescription drugs and an army of sycophants. The smoking bans meted out in New York and California didn’t save Heath Ledger and Michael Jackson.
For the truth is that the society in which we live in now is like a luxury Soviet Union. Political debate is encouraged provided there is no dissent. As in the Duma you could discuss ways towards socialism, so in the White House you can argue how best to discourage people using their cars. You cannot say that driving is a good thing if you want a career in politics or, for that matter, the movie business, or in any of the industries in which are run by the intelligensia.
Full article HERE.
Reader Comments (1)
Politics and the movie business run by the Intelligensia ?
Some of the movie business.
Hardly any of the political sphere.
I think that's half the problem ?
It's all a lack of intelligence.