British authorities are stark raving mad
In recent years Britain has become the Willy Wonka of socialcontrol, churning out increasingly creepy, bizarre, and fantasticmethods for policing the populace. But our weaponization ofclassical music—where Mozart, Beethoven, and other greats have beenturned into tools of state repression—marks a new low.
We’re already the kings of CCTV. Anestimated 20 per cent of the world’s CCTV cameras are in the UK, aremarkable achievement for an island that occupies only 0.2 percent of the world’s inhabitable landmass.
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In January it was revealed that West Park School, in Derby inthe midlands of England, was “subjecting” (its words) badly behavedchildren to Mozart and others. In “special detentions,” thechildren are forced to endure two hours of classical music both as a relaxant (the headmasterclaims it calms them down) and as a deterrent against future badbehavior (apparently the number of disruptive pupils has fallen by60 per cent since the detentions were introduced.)