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You know what would vastly improve everyday life in Western nations?

A complete and total cessation of the relentless schoolmarmery that is forever oozing from the state and its corporate collaborators like some foul poop-green algal bloom. I want a lot of things, but very high up on my list is that I want politicians, NGOs, Netflix, television adverts, public health mandarins and random clipboard girls on the street to stop teaching me sophomoric lessons about things.

I try to avoid pop culture themes here at the plague chronicle, but I’m making an exception for this story, because it illustrates like few others the needling, nagging, shrieking nature of the regime that oppresses us.

This week, the German discount supermarket chain Penny (a member of the Rewe Group) has arrogated to itself the project of teaching its predominantly lower-income working-class clientele about the grave environmental impact of the cheap processed food in which it specialises. They’ve decided to do this in the midst of massive food price inflation, which has left 11 percent of Germans unable to afford daily meals, by … selectively marking up food prices to reflect their True Environmental Cost.

It’s also clear that Penny’s campaign is directed not at the people who actually buy food there, but at biens pensants Green-obsessed urbanites who never come within 100 metres of a Penny... State media accordingly loves this – so much that a WDR reporter doing a segment on customer reactions inside a Penny supermarket interviewed another WDR employee posing as a random customer so that she could tell him how great she thought it was. After Twitter sleuths caught them out, WDR apologised and said it was simply a mistake, honestly it was, just a “chain of unfortunate circumstances.”