DISTRACTION

Not this:

KEHLANI - DISTRACTION

Nor this:

JIMMY CARR - DISTRACTION


This:

distraction

dɪˈstrakʃ(ə)n

noun

1. 1.

   a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else.

   "the firm found passenger travel a distraction from the main business of moving freight"

   synonyms:

   diversion, interruption, disturbance, intrusion, interference, obstruction, hindrance "he called these stories a distraction from the real issues"
2. 2.

   extreme agitation of the mind.

   "her uncharacteristic air of distraction"

   synonyms:

   frenzy, hysteria, mental distress, madness, insanity, wildness, mania, derangement, delirium;

We know that religion has been used for centuries as a means of distracting the peasantry from the unfairness of their lot and aiding in the retention of power by the ruling classes. "Religion is the opiate of the masses" to paraphrase Karl Marx.

John Lennon had a take on it here: WORKING CLASS HERO

" .... Keep you doped with religion, sex and TV... "

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The Philosophical Curmudgeon posted a link to a Noam Chomsky narrative HERE which discusses how the Republican party and the power brokers in the USA are using Donald Trump and his idiocies as a means of distracting the populace - both Democrats and Republicans - away from what they are really trying to achieve which is to make money for themselves and their cronies. Trump also plays the buffoon appealing to the disenfranchised and lower intelligent voters of either parties but especially the red-necked Republicans.

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Recently and culminating over the last week the UK has been running its own form of distraction, one that they wheel out repeatedly when things get tough - the Royal Family.

This bunch of braindead, inbred plutocrats somehow manage to enchant a populace who can ill afford to sustain them (but it does). BREXIT, failing banks, unemployment, rising crime, education and health system problems are all forgotten about when the Hoo Ha Henries, the Sloanies the twats and the bimbos dress up and parade down the aisles of Westminster Abbey. In fairly recent years they did that when the dumb bint Diana married the twit Charles and the not so bad Kate married the OK but overprivileged William.

Now the rebellious aged-teenager Harry has married a polar opposite of the royal family - the black, American, intelligent and someone with a surname Meghan Markle. The engagement, wedding planning, wedding and post wedding hysteria occupied millions of people in the UK and around the world.

Dupes.