A madness grips the country. I call it collective stupidity. It's my personal theory which explains how otherwise able and astute individuals lose all their wit when acting within a larger community or society. Now I know what you're thinking, Dr Persaud. It's speech marks or a timely civil action. Quotation or litigation. Do tarry awhile before you deploy that trusty copy and paste. The stupidity to which I allude is demonstrated effectively and prosaically in the scripts of " Waiting for Death ", the Wonkana Productions podcast comedy series. How can something this good be free, you ask.And well you might.
So what's wrong with society? A surfeit of the keenest minds, glittering alumni and an ostentation of consultants are powerless to prevent the unique brand of stupid that has become the hallmark of 21st century Britain.
Just what has provoked my ire so acutely? A little known newspaper not five miles from one of our pod casting bunkers tells of a Waterstones store that will be "policed" by a cardboard cut out copper.P.C. Nick Stephens explains :
" Research has shown that shoplifting is reduced.......he (cut out) will be on guard 24 hours and won't take a tea break ! " The side splitting humour in that quote clearly an acrid smokescreen for the soul destroying buffoonery of the concept. I think I speak for most right minded taxpayers when expressing a desire for 3, not 2 dimensional officers on the beat. Yet again, another own goal in the net of stupidity.
For equally pointed comment on society, its foibles and sketches as sharp as a cutlass, go here
http://www.wonkanaproductions.com/waitingfordeath.php