Under Construction @ Keele 2016 Volume 2 Issue 1 | Page 64

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the older participants do not consume in an instantaneous and unthinking manner. It
could even be argued that whilst more traditional targets of denunciation, such as
benefit claimants and criminals who defy the ‘laws of nature’ and take from society
without giving back, still exist, poorer older people now commit the most heinous of
crimes because they refute the principles of consumerism and cannot be “corrected”
with ‘technolog[ies] of rectification’.49 Older bodies repudiate the ‘machine’ analogy
because their thoughts are not wired in a uniform way to endlessly consume and are
so deeply entrenched within their very being they cannot be altered.50
To conclude, whilst Thatcher [