I am sick of getting instructions from the rich and famous on how to live my life. As the father of 3 children one of whom is not yet one, I am concerned about the future, about the way we live our lives and treat our world.

BUT, if another bloody celebrity chef tells me what I should be eating, that much of our food is mass produced and then not in a nice way, that if you put horseshit on your lettuce rather than a bag of corporate fertilizer you will have saved yourself as well as the world, I will scream.

Then its onto style and what we should have in your house, the way it should look and feel.

Oh then as Julie Burchill pointed out in todays Guardian, its all these middle and upper middle class people writing about what a hard time they had on drugs and booze and divorce and you shouldn’t do it…..oh please

Why when people get wealthy do they, only then, become so self righteous, what give these mulit millionaires the right to tell the rest of us how its meant to be. Beside the fact they have alot of money and dominate the visual media. Do they not realise their views of the world are subject to their wealth. Its like the joke about the Queen who thinks everywhere else smells of disinfectant.

Now there are also the self righteous Greens who also want to tell us how we ought to live…no plastic bags, no oil based products, no this not that. Yet why does the public face of greendom always seem so upper middle class. Wealth and Social standing buys you alot of space, an electric car and quite a number of expensiive Jute bags.

The point is there is nothing intrinsically bad with much of what these people suggest, much of it is meet and right, as they used to say in the Old Church Service. But just think what this means if you are vaguely short of money….

I was looking at free range organic chickens in Waitrose yesterday for a minimum of £10, but an ordinary chicken was £3, plastic bags were free, yet a jute bag was £3 This is just a small part of the additional cost in so called ethical or gren shopping. Never mind that inflation has increased the cost of fod enormously then you have to spend all this extra money you do not have. Farming became an industry so everyone could have affordable food, I think these media class people have another hidden message when they say that this kind of farming is wrong.

“Change Your Thoughts Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao” (Dr Wayne W Dyer)

The real answer to much of this “what you ought to be buying” thing, is actually you shouldn’t. No really you just shouldn’t buy, at the very least cut down drastically…For example, Its not plastic bags that are the biggest problem in landfill,(though they are a problem) but waste food. We generally buy 1/3 more food than we really need, that excess gets thrown away. We live in a throw away society, we are recycling things that really shouldn’t even be produced. Yet even this has a knock on effect and its ordinary working people that will suffer the knock. Buy less means the need to produce less, means less people employed.

Now we are being informed that eco light bulbs are full of poisoned chemicals and corn starch bags (replacements for plastic bags) add to the problem in landfill because as they rot they increase the methane production

In that instant and looking around at more self righteous millionaires who dont want to leave anything to their children ( I feel another round of sob story books coming on) I had a blinding flash of enlightenment that nothing had really changed at all, the change that was being asked for was really more of the same.

When Fernley Wittingstall or whatever he is called, bad mouthed an estate in Axminster, he appeared to me to really be saying, we dont need your type anymore. The great unwashed can now be phased out as they will never change and anyway, as I have just pointed out, cannot afford the suggested changes.The Upper Classes know whats right, we will decide whats good for you, from ideas sown on the playing fields of Eton. Because of course they must be right musn’t they.

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