Continuing with "How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World" by Francis Wheen and it has remarked on how "The Market" and Money are the new religion. Global companies and money eulogise the "Free Market" and then use their power to become monopolies or cartels to manipulate prices and push the consumer into penury.
Any government that does not facilitate this are attacked to attempt to bring them into line. The UK and USA have certainly been brought into line.
In the book the USA continually attacks countries like France, Finland and Sweden for not being in thrall to big money like the "land of the free".
This book is nearly twenty years old and things have got much worse. Lying and cheating are the norms the further up the money chain you go.
Seven Days In is still getting a good number of reads so I expect it to hit 100K visits this month (it is standing at 41K today) and a million since my first post (It is standing at 980K today) and when that happens I will share it with you.
If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.
The music is, appropriately "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" by the Pet Shop Boys,
I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.
Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories
I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:
- Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
- The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
- Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
- The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
- An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
- Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
- The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
- Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer
