UK: Reality leak - what's up with the Guardian?

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UK: Reality leak - what's up with the Guardian?

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I think we all pretty much agree that the biggest victims of OPCA are the vulnerable people who get sucked into it because it's held out to them as being a solution to their woes. Obviously uncritical publicity I mainstream media is very dangerous from this point of view, but fortunately it's pretty rare. The exception seems to be in the pages of The (formally Manchester) Guardian.

The Guardian ( theguardian.com ) has long been a bastion of the left-of-centre press in the UK, and around the world (via the Guardian Weekly even before the internet.). When the Labour Party moved to the centre in the 1990s the Guardian didn't, and so it's either the last source of sensible opinion or a Bennite dinosaur, depending on your point of view. They have an active op-ed space ("Comment is Free") which got OPCAed up by some OPCA-flavoured Occupy-types in 2011 ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... es-economy and http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... upy-london ), drawing a healthy response both in British blogs and in their own pages. I thought they had learned their lesson but then today there's its economic equivalent: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... -austerity. Basically it quote-mines a Bank of England report in order to claim that money is made out of thin air therefore we can have as much money as we want (with the result that the government can spend as much as it wants without consequences and (not 100% spelled out but definitely implied) homeowners should refuse to pay their mortgages since the bank didn't really lend them money. This kind of OPCA leakage into the mainstream media makes me grumpy :x

I'm not so much disappointed that the editors didn't notice the obvious mistake that governments can spend whatever they want without any trade offs (taxes, debt, inflation), but rather more so that they didn't twig onto the NESARA-style delusion that if there were 10 trillion more dollars in the world that life would be somehow better (despite there being the exact same amount of food, housing and other desirable goods)
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Re: Reality leak - what's up with the Guardian?

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Fmotlgroupie wrote:I think we all pretty much agree that the biggest victims of OPCA are the vulnerable people who get sucked into it because it's held out to them as being a solution to their woes. Obviously uncritical publicity I mainstream media is very dangerous from this point of view, but fortunately it's pretty rare. The exception seems to be in the pages of The (formally Manchester) Guardian. . .
So the we're-going-to-change-the-world freeman movement is reduced to trolling newspaper web site comment sections, the internet equivalent of speaker's corner.

How the (we thought we were) mighty have fallen.
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Re: Reality leak - what's up with the Guardian?

Post by gtm »

This 'phenomenon' sprung from the Occupy London protests. FMOTL supporters turned up at the St Paul's camp and made a thorough nuisance of themselves.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... py-freemen