Better times

The real solution to these troubled economic times has arrived. It has not been provided by he government but the solution bears all the hallmarks of Conservative ethics and morality (they have none, and neither does this expanding industry). Television advertising is coming being dominated by this growth area. Among the commercials for desperate supermarkets, furniture stores, insurance companies and car manufacturers are the adverts that appeal to our most basic instinct: making money. Online, real time, in play betting is the way forward. For hundreds of years we have all tried to make money but this dirty, immoral activity has been disguised by the meaning of our labours - the worthiness of meaningful occupations or simply the hard work ethic even if it means working in a mine or a factory. But now that thin veneer of decency has worn away and the ugly brutal nihilistic ethic of no ethics is shining through. Betting - in the guise of an occasional flutter - has been, at best, thought of as a bit of fun on big race days such as The Grand National. This was the acceptable end of a spectrum that led to betting shops imprisoned behind blacked out windows where hardened myopic professional betters plied their trade. But now every other advert is for some betting site. This way forward is the link between the old industrial society that is has been dying since WW2 and the better times of the kind of society depicted in Bladerunner.