On television and radio at the moment is an advertising campaign which tries to recruit people for the Sotzial Services.
It uses the multi-layered sophistication that only the bright sunlit upland of virtually unlimited funding affords.
The late, great, Louis Armstrong has been appropriated to the cause, as his brand of slightly slow, slightly sentimental-sounding soul music is something that the up-and-coming sotzial-ists have wet fantasies about in their moments of wishing that 'someday every kid will have a home like this'.
This is overlayed with fantasy case studies of how certain clients were helped and how satisfying it feels to be the one that made it happen.
For example, (and quite, quite horribly)there is the "75 year old with Alzheimers".
The social worker helps with her make up, and every compliment the lady receives is taken as a compliment by the 'worker'.
Great. So the little old lady is robbed of her dignity and any credit she gets.
Now that's what I call a parasite.
But the best comes last; they have a new slogan.
Wait for it...
Here it is!
1+1=3
Oh, boy!
So that was the reason for all the bad education over the last twenty years?
To reach the day when people could actually go on public television and say without any sense of irony that one plus one equals three?
And people are supposed to understand it!
The true horror is in the assumption that we will.
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‘You are a slow learner, Winston,’ said O’Brien gently.
‘How can I help it?’ he blubbered. ‘How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.’
‘Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.’
Nice quote.
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