Nil

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dramaturgy - scriptwriting - clinical psychology https://linktr.ee/nillintheblanks

Purple background with bold pink text displaying a quote: “The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment—or at least much handicap—to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need.” On the right side, there is a stylized grayscale illustration of a man with short hair and a mustache, facing forward with a neutral expression.
A photograph of a printed book page featuring a paragraph by Terry Eagleton. The text discusses a future society where schoolchildren would find it unbelievable that millions once went hungry while a small number of people fed caviar to their poodles. Text (exact transcription): “It would not, one hopes, take quite so long to produce a social order in which schoolchildren studying history would greet with utter incredulity the fact that once upon a time millions of people went hungry while a handful of others fed caviar to their poodles.”
A man recoils in fear as a small yellow bird flies aggressively toward his face. The top text reads “CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS,” labeling the bird, and the bottom text reads “LIBERALS,” labeling the man, implying that liberals react defensively or fearfully when confronted with class consciousness.
A printed page with a paragraph of text in English that reads: “And most important of all! Every industrial and commercial centre in England now possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps, English proletarians and Irish proletarians. The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. In relation to the Irish worker he regards himself as a member of the ruling nation and consequently he becomes a tool of the English aristocrats and capitalists against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination over himself. He cherishes religious, social, and national prejudices against the Irish worker. His attitude towards him is much the same as that of the ‘poor whites’ to the Negroes in the former slave states of the U.S.A.. The Irishman pays him back with interest in his own money. He sees in the English worker both the accomplice and the stupid tool of the English rulers in Ireland. This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organisation. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power. And the latter is quite aware of this.”