Magazine - Year 2016 - Version 2
Media: TEXT
Language: ENGLISH
Language: ENGLISH
Story
Listen online
View page note
Please go to your device settings and ensure that the Text-to-Speech engine is configured properly. Download the language data for Hindi or any other languages you prefer for the best experience.
Governments are deemed to
succeed or fail by how well they
make money go round, regard-
less of whether it serves any use-
ful purpose. They regard it as a
sacred duty to encourage the
country’s most revolting spec-
tacle: the annual feeding frenzy
in which shoppers queue all
night, then stampede into the
shops, elbow, trample and some-
times fight to be the first to carry
off some designer junk which will
go into landfill before the sales
next year. The madder the orgy,
the greater the triumph of eco-
nomic management.
- George Monbiot
- George Monbiot
