Politicians and policy makers used to have vision and a sense of service and purpose.

Then the rot set in, election commitments could be made off such visions and never fulfilled. By the next election cycle it would be forgotten what was promised and not done, the cycle began again. No consequence of magnitude, they all still had a well paid job and perks..

We get what we vote for nowadays, there are not enough voters to look back past what they saw on farcebook 3 mins ago to make an informed decision on who they vote for and why.
Accountability is thus largely gone for our politicians and they know it.

How much real political power does the "woke" phenomenon actually have?

What kind of "brave new world" vision did the aggressively unwoke Tony Abbott (aka mister NO) promote.
And the mister NO Mitch McConnell in the US who only policy was to oppose everything that Barack Obama promoted, and any kind of progressive policy.
What kind of vision did Scotty from marketing promote? And John Howard too who openly confessed that he was not in to the "vision thing?

What kind of life-positive "vision" does the Trumpen-fuhrer promote? And the benighted "religious" crazies who now dominate the Republican party in the US?

But in the meantime what very un-woke forces actually pattern and control every aspect of Western culture in the now-time of the "21st century?

This essay argues that we are now controlled and patterned by the very un-woke nightmare visions of both Huxley's Brave New World, and Orwell's 1984
http://www.truthdig.com/articles/2011-a-brave-new-dystopia

And what if we are now also patterned and controlled by the very un-woke Wetiko Mind Virus Plague as argued by Paul Levy in his book Wetiko Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World.
http://www.awakeninthedream.com

Alan B.,

>I mean a wind turbine needs to turn for thirty years just to offset the carbon created in its manufacture

What gave you that ridiculous idea? It's over an order of magnitude less!

>Carbon 40 can be sliced wafer thin then coated with cheap manmade diamonds, that then convert rads into electricity!

WTF are you on about? Did you mishear the radioactive isotope carbon 14? Or do you mean molecules of forty carbon atoms?
Converting radiation directly into electricity is useful for powering space probes, but it isn't cheap,and I very much doubt the energy returned will ever match the energy inputted.

UFO's are real.

A spaceship has come down to earth and abducted Murray Hunter, and replaced him with a much more sensible clone.

This will be the first time ever that I agree with Murray Hunter over anything. Maybe it's me? I must be going mad?

Well done, Murray. Or, whoever you really are? But please return the real Murray to Earth because he normally provides us with a lot of political perspectives that give us plenty of ammunition to hurl back at him.

Missing him already.

Whats the point, all our decision makers are stupid.
Why else would they blow up power stations instead of mothballing
them just in case we needed them ?

They are hopeless and until we can put some sort of test on them they
should all be locked up where they can do no harm.

Thanks Murray Hunter- I think I agree with your article.