Message to Millennials: "it wasn't always like this"

Governments used to design socio-economic policy based on the needs of the 96%. Now it's devised solely by and for the 4%.

The Baby Boomer parents of the late 1940s begat the Beautiful People of the 1960s.....who in turn begat the Millennials born during the Noughties.

But along the way, things went terribly wrong.

In education and science, the search for Truth turned into the politically correct.

In public life, punishment for malfeasance turned into do what you have to do and tell any lie necessary to get away with it.

Among showbizz celebs and the media, a talent to entertain and investigative journalism turned into if it feels good do it, and lock-step elite propaganda.

In service industries, after-sales care turned into 'No Reply' emails and AI jargon....thus ensuring that accountability turned into inaccessibility - and then invisibility.

In Silicon Valley, hitech progress turned into surveillance State process.

In soccer, playing attacking ambitious football turned into play-safe midfield pass-tapping, and corner kicks turned into all-in penalty area wrestling.

In government, being a politically neutral bureaucrat turned into neutured elected assemblies and revolving door corporatocracy.

In politics, explaining necessity turned into rationalising expediency.

In banking, our money became their money and their losses became our responsibility.

In pharmaceuticals and healthcare, making sick people better turned into making money from addicted patients.

Overall, in fact, natural tribal mutuality capitalism turned into monopoly-globalist greed.

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There is a persistent trolling tendency online - an element that often looks like it's orchestrated - whereby otherwise low-profile commentators insist that State policy has always been that only what the 4% desire counts....trying to say, "Don't be naive - nothing to see here - everything's exactly the same as it always was".

Studying history, we see a dramatic example of People Power in the UK during the postwar election of 1946. The eternal warrior Winston Churchill saw nothing but a Soviet threat given the amount of European land the USSR had gained during the war. He saw tough diplomacy and tricky military dangers as the main Anglo-American focus in the future. But the Labour Party's lacklustre leader Clem Attlee saw the pre-war inequalities of opportunity still intact, and felt that recently demobbed working men were not going back to the class-ridden 1930s. He campaigned on a plan to dismantle the class bias in health, education, wages, University scholarships, capital power and slum poverty.

A deprived, shell-shocked and yet ambitious electorate produced a Labour landslide that shocked most pundits. And this in turn produced the world's first Free Health Service and dentistry, free Grammar Schools based entirely on merit, low-rent Council Houses for the poorer demographics and grants for higher education at Britain's Universities.

The result was the greatest leap in social mobility, equality of opportunity and overall contentment ratings in Britain's history....despite taxes being at an all-time high.

During that unique period of State investment in its citizens, home ownership soared from 10% to 68% (1946-1968). This was partly due to the average house value being only five times average salaries for much of the time - these were the days when mass-market incomes grew in real terms (as opposed to declining for the last thirty years up to 2025) but primarily it was the result of the mutualist Building Society movement's beliefs and probity.

Seventy years ago, if UK citizens saved diligently as members of a Building Society, the institution gave them generous interest rates, and eventually lent them the money via monthly mortgage payments to buy a property. In those days, building societies stayed mutual, obeyed the laws regarding that activity and held no ambitions to become retail banks. Back then, they did not have CEO's like Debbie Crosbie who paid themselves seven million Pounds a year, then award themselves a four million pound pay increase, and then illegally block the Nationwide members from voting on whether such greed was justified.

During the rush for Building Societies to demutualise during the 1985-1997 period (and become plc banks) Halifax BS was my biggest financial client. For a period of some four years, the entire senior management thought of nothing else other than how they could increase their salaries, get awarded shares in the plc launch and persuade the membership to vote solidly for the change. The outcome of this industry-wide outbreak of 'smelling the money' was grisly in the extreme. [I was forced off the account after predicting what would happen. Believe me, I took it as a blessed relief].

In 1987, the Wall Street anti-hero movie character Gordon Gecko infamously asserted "Greed is good". It was certainly good for the burgeoning globalist bank sector, which systematically asset-ripped every principled Savings & Loan or Building Society it could find across the First World.

Before I get bombarded by the knee-jerk neoliberal gang, let me make it clear that I was also - during the 1964-1979 period - a vociferous critic of the TUC madness that gave birth to the blessed Margaret's successful election as Prime Minister in 1979. But the sad and inescapable reality is that - over the ensuing best part of half a century blighted by Thatcher, Reagan, Macron, Obama, Musk, Gates et al, what the 'The West' has done is swap one bunch of Union mobsters for another bunch now routinely dubbed the Banksters - and their allies in Big Pharma and Silicon Valley. It's hard to see evidence of progress in this, but it's pretty clear that naked above-the-law behaviour is now far more commonplace than it was historically....be that behaviour WHO pandemic inventions, Islamist insistence on Sharia Law or grotesque EU Commission anti-democratic corruption.

The average thirty-something in 2025 thinks nothing of blithely giving nosey ISP, online platform and smartphone suppliers details of their exact locations. Yet somebody born in the 1960s or earlier, the insidious track-and-trace anti-libertarian intent of those pestering us is blindingly obvious...and very obviously did not exist before digital web life approached everyone's privacy by ramming their front door into smithereens.

I was tipped off late last year by a former US Secret State employee as follows: "If the CIA knows only the bare minimum of your location details, it can trace exactly where you are and who you're with in 7.8 seconds via your smartphone". Such a capacity simply did not exist ten years ago: it represents a massive loss of individual liberty that is going to be extremely difficult ever to reverse.

But widespread acceptance of such things as "part of modern life" isn't just terrifying. It acts as a catalyst to the acceptance of more general demands of this nature. Since May 7th this year. Real ID cards are now required for air travel in the US. Passengers without such ID are already experiencing enhanced security and disallowal at many airports.

Obligatory ID cards in order to travel in the Land of the Free? In 1975, no American adult of sound mind would've accepted such privacy rape.

What has changed?

The big difference since the late 1970s has been the rise of moral decay - the main symptom of which is lascivious greed for the power money brings to the table - and the systemic abolition of Truth Certainty via the investment house>>Secret State>>media compliance complex.

Loss of the plot about 'Truth' was for me exemplified when the married senior UK Conservative Cabinet Minister David Mellor (a keen Chelsea FC supporter) was betrayed by his South American mistress, the actress Antonia de Sancha. She sold a kiss-and-tell story to the Sun newspaper via the equally amoral publicist Max Clifford. Allegedly, Tony Blair's Spin Doctor Alastair Campbell then planted several 'details' of the affair in various media, including one allegation that Mellor made love to de Sancha while wearing a Chelsea FC shirt.

Some time later - around the turn of the century - Campbell went onto the BBC's Parkinson chat show, and was asked by the host whether he had enjoyed running the bad-publicity-Chelsea-shirt slur on Mellor.

"You know, the best thing about that stuff Michael was that I made it all up" said Campbell.

Parkinson laughed. The audience laughed. And I knew in that moment, my homeland's moral decline was well under way.

An associated factor - perhaps the biggest single change in government structures in modern human history - has been the shift of power from elected chambers to unelected corporatocracy...a subject I have tackled on many occasions here at The Slog.

But the bottom line is that you won't find a single Milleniel anywhere in the world that bothers much about history: so when told by the New Normal Settled Science shower that life was never anything other than the way it is in the 21st century, they have no reason to doubt the gigantic lie.

The DNC, the New York Times, The Washington Post, the BLM guys, the FBI, the DoJ and Donald Trump make false accusations and exaggerate success without batting an eyelid. There's little to choose between them any more....and the same goes for the EU's Commission President Ursual Von de Leyen's lies about sanctions against Putin, her hero Vlodomere Zelenskyy's serial lies about breaking the 2014 Ukraine/Russia ceasefire agreement, and Macron's ridiculous insistence that conscription is now required in order to stop an imminent invasion of Europe by Moscow.

Every last scintilla of it is falsehood - and has been turned into a Slogarithm in these columns:

'The degree of profanity directed at the inanity of humanity is directly proportional to the vanity displayed by the mendacity of its general insanity'

I wish you all a very good weekend.