“ The chart shows [Gary] Lineker as the highest-earning star with an unchanged salary of £1.75m in the last financial year.” Like other similar injustices, the majority are complicit in this, for they accept it as ‘natural’ and ‘new normal’. After all, Lineker is a frontline essential worker before and after the pandemic, and has been risking his life for many years to entertain a passive complacent audience. And now the poor Lineker “has agreed” to a £400,000 pay cut. When politicians use the language of “we are in it together”, they express the ideology of the ruling class. And the BBC and Lineker are examples of this. “I am making sacrifices because we are all in it together.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51