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We are young, confident, affluent, and with no memory of tougher times |
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We've grown up in an era of never ending financial growth |
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And expected things to stay that way |
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We've grown up in owner-occupied homes |
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With total acceptance of technology, global warming and terrorism |
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Our whole society has been based on consumerism for the past fifteen years |
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Making us dream consumers, yet we don't know the difference between a credit card |
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And a debit card, and we have no idea how much a pint of milk costs |
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On average we have eight hundred illegally downloaded songs, and one in eight of us |
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Spends more than one hundred pounds a month on our mobile phone bill |
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We've never read a newspaper, and we've never used our chance to vote |
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We allow our governments to make decisions without giving us all the facts |
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They send troops abroad who will die |
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In order that we can steal resources from the people who have them |
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People who meant us little or no harm until we invaded their country |
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We allow those troops to commit horrendous atrocities |
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And yet our leaders hang our alleged enemies for much less |
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We've spent years entrusting our futures to our parents, our governments |
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And we've let them make selfish decisions |
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That have left our society teetering on the edge of ruin |
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We're blinded from the information that would really shock us |
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By stories of sex and sleaze which doesn't make the smallest difference to our lives |
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And so we have no desire to do anything about the things that really do |
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We've watched as greed wipes billions of the world's stock markets |
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Destroys jobs and lives |
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And proves that capitalism is just as corruptible by human nature as communism |
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These are tough times but we seek solace in our friends and co-conspirators |
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We make small differences in each other's lives, and dream that we can make real progress |