G20 – the cost of democracy?

£7.2 million allocated for security during the G20 in London. Are they taking the piss??

Trapped in pretentiousness

Glossy images, chic silky themes,

beautifully crafted magenta slogans.

My mood is uplifted, my ego is boosted

Wanna run out of my flat,

join the group,

own the streets,

march in protest

Then I stop. In flashback.

Advertising is the perfect public sphere for a society geared towards consumption, markets and profit

Sounds like an old academic book

dust off my memory and recall

Marx, Durkheim and many more

Is it my dissent a hollow replication

of spoilt bourgeoisie’s children weeps?

They are trapped while trying to break

the same golden cage

that lock us all to hell…

“God only is real, Money doesn’t count”, say the Pope

“The Pope is right. God is the Only Permanent Reality. Money is nothing. Shame though that He’s saying so dressed like a Xmas tree full of glitters, gold, silk lace, and His red Prada shoes”