'Hey there is a thief in your House,'

I watched Annie Hall recently and I loved the bit where Woody Allen interviews a couple on the street. They are Mr and Mrs random bland, and they tell Woody that they are really happy, as they never think about anything, that nothing bothers them and life is perfect as they don’t have any problems. It leaves Woody perplexed as he spends much of the movie contemplating the meaning of life and being utterly miserable, but these people don’t think and don’t care, they are completely bland but they are ultimately happy, as their world is always perfect.

I was reminded of this the other night, when tweeters mostly female were following the Eurovision song contest, various tweeters were commenting on the different entries, whilst others eagerly awaited Ireland’s entry. All well and good in normal times—[if we ever had normal times,] but right now when the country is in meltdown, well it is hard to take. If that isn’t bad enough down my timeline came two particularly interesting tweets. The first was a You Tube video presentation on how Ireland’s oil and gas reserves were basically given away. They were in essence stolen from the Irish citizen and gifted to wealthy supporters of political parties. Stolen, and the citizenry are been whipped by austerity? The second tweet was from RBB and it concerned our forestry.

Now RBB is a mighty man and all that, but his complaints about the scurrilous and ultimately useless government plan to sell off the harvesting rights of our forestry were far too polite, given that he is a left wing agitator and defender of the citizen. Doesn’t he realise that this is undemocratic and the citizen has not been consulted on any proposal to sell off their collateral. In any other country this would lead to anarchy and all out civil unrest, but the Irish citizen is staying at home and watching the Eurovision song contest and hoping we will win.

Let’s examine in greater detail what has happened, the greedy rich and their political and banking allies broke the state, by artificially inflating property values, and encouraging reckless abandonment within our financial services. The FF government panicked and gave silly and unwarranted guarantees. The FG government came in on a wave of false promises and lies, they allowed their neoliberal ideology to rule, with the resultant austerity and cuts whipping the poor, and destroying confidence throughout society. They have not only a failed ideology but they have even failed miserably to implement this creed—making laughable statements and foolish errors.

It is in times like this that us Joe citizens can send these cretins to hell, and began to realise our assets and collateral. This would allow us seize control from the political hacks and refloat our economy and reform our political system, but hey we can’t as these buffoons gave away our collateral to their friends. We have private individuals owning and managing crucial assets owned by the citizen. These resources are not benefiting the state, and the Irish citizen is constantly duped into thinking that we don’t have resources, or that the cost of harvesting same is beyond us, which is total and utter nonsense. Norway has a similar population to us and they are thriving using their collateral to pay their way.


The question is what is the Irish citizen going to do about this? Is it that they don’t believe that its true—do the Eurovision watchers know this all happened but just don’t care? Or is that they think it was alright for the state to gift our collateral to their friends? Maybe they just don’t believe that our representatives would allow this to happen, unless they had no choice and their hands were tied and there would be no money in the Atms? Hardly as even the lying politicians haven’t used that excuse, no their excuse is simple, we couldn’t afford to drill in Barryroe oilfield, but Gavin O’ Reilly can is he bigger than the Irish state? Nonsense a country of nearly 5 million people could afford to hire the expertise needed to harvest our oil and gas, so anything said disputing that is a lie.

So my Eurovision watchers either don’t know or don’t care about the treacherous behaviour that has done them and their children, and grandchildren out of their stake in our precious natural resources. No they hope that some faceless bland wannabe pop star, can entertain them, Mr and Mrs bland are happy out, as they don’t think and they don’t care.

We are now in essence slaves to a financial and political ideology that rewards individualism and greed. The shrines are everywhere in these dumb shopping outlets on the edge of our towns. Citizens are devoured by relentless advertisements for retail outlets--it is either cut price bacon--or half price sofa's. We have destroyed all idea of collectivism and community, our health service is so divided and crushed it is barely operable. There are countless adverts brainwashing young mothers to take out expensive health insurance, the message is simple, if you don't fund yourself the state will fail you! The state being all of us citizens, we have been rendered useless all our assets and collateral has been transferred to the wealthy.

"Turn down that Eurovision racket, there is a thief in the house!"