UK election 2015 special: 2000AD PROG 1929- Review- A vegetarian at the all you can eat meat buffet

Artists and writers: Various
Publisher: Rebellion
Released: 6th May 2015


For a sci-fi comic supposedly set in the future 2000AD isn’t exactly very forward thinking or revolutionary in it’s thought processes, actually it’s about as old fashioned statist and status quo enforcing as the Sun newspaper or the BBC.

PROG 1929 comes on the eve of the largely pointless neo-liberal UK election of 2015 where voters get to choose between political non-representatives who care not a jot about their voters lives, but care a heck of a lot for the private corporations who fund and control them.

It’s a pointless election because there is no choice available. It would be like a vegetarian going to an all you can meat buffet, told to sit down and eat. After all, he has a choice, doesn’t he?

2000AD takes the mainstream view that the vegetarian at the meat buffet has a choice between different kinds of meat, and is therefore free to eat whatever he likes. Worst of all, 2000AD would then insist that if the vegetarian chooses ‘none of the above’ then he is not making his opinion count, and is therefore wasting the precious gift that is democracy.

DO YOU NOT GET IT 2000AD?

When there is no choice the voting process is meaningless. It’s like voting in a totalitarian state where there is only the ruling party to vote for. That is the situation in the UK today, a vote for neo-liberal, or neo-liberal. That is not a choice.

In this 2015 UK election there is no choice. The political parties are not serving the people; they are serving private corporate interests.

This is not a 'conspiracy' and only the most stubbornly dense of ‘earthlets’ can fail to understand this incontestable fact.

If you are voting today then you are not just voting for more statist slavery, but you are voting for neo-liberal statist slavery.

Your vote gives your tacit consent for more austerity, more war, less freedom and less prosperity. You are voting for more privatisation, more corporate raping and looting of the UK, more banker bailouts, more state subsidies of corporate losses and all of the rest of the criminal misdeeds that have been going on SINCE THE DAYS OF MARGARET BLOODY THATCHER.

WHAT IS THERE NOT TO GET??

And so, to protest the ridiculous level of deliberate ignorance and mainstream pandering that is happening in 2000AD PROG 1929 I’m going to refuse to review it. It’s harsh, because it’s a decent book, but I want to make a statement here.

When the mainstream media sham that is the UK election 2015 finally comes to an end, and it’s slavery as usual for the people of the UK, all I can do is hope that the people (2000AD included) finally begin to wake up and understand what is happening.

A vegetarian (that’s the voters) eating at an all you can eat meat buffet (that’s the election) is never going to get what he wants. This is a harsh reality to accept, but we have to get it through our thick skulls.

We need to open our eyes, engage, stop bloody voting for neo-liberal slavery like mindless automatons, and start doing something to regain some freedom around here.

Putting a cross on a bit of paper every four years or so and then spending the rest of the time ignoring ‘mundane reality’ (as 2000AD describes it) is passive, ignorant, lazy, childish cowardice. In short, it's the mindset of the enslaved. Comics are great, but it’s about time we grew the Tharg up.



PS- Slaine is still awesome.