One of the headlines on the Guardian's website today was "Royal Mail hires 30,000 workers to crush strike". Now I'm really on Peter "Beyond Anger" Mandelson on this one. Not getting mail is kind of annoying, and the fact that the RM is trying to make our mail harder, better, faster, stronger is not annoying. Ergo, the workers striking in a luddite show of defiance really grates with me. If I were the employer in this scenario, I too would not be able to help myself from wanting to crush the insolent proles with an army of mercanary landsknecht posties.
The fact that it's the Royal Mail accentuates the idea that the elite is massing its forces to smash the revolution; the Imperial Guard will begin delivering your milk next week. Now obviously I don't believe that Postman Pat and his chums are raising arms in a neo-Leninist plot to take over; after all the loyal postman is hardly the stereotypical repressed man. And it is a futile coup, since now the Queen has ordered her 30,000 stormtroopers into the sorting depos and post offices around the realm. The serfs have squandered their emancipation. "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a mail-bag stamping on a human face - forever."
The fact that it's the Royal Mail accentuates the idea that the elite is massing its forces to smash the revolution; the Imperial Guard will begin delivering your milk next week. Now obviously I don't believe that Postman Pat and his chums are raising arms in a neo-Leninist plot to take over; after all the loyal postman is hardly the stereotypical repressed man. And it is a futile coup, since now the Queen has ordered her 30,000 stormtroopers into the sorting depos and post offices around the realm. The serfs have squandered their emancipation. "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a mail-bag stamping on a human face - forever."
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