By the time that this proposal broke as news it already had the appearance of being a done deal.

One of the objectives of this kind of deliberately furtive corporate strategy is to undermine dissent by paralysing it.

You can't fight what you can't see, and by the time you can see it it feels too big to fight.

The shock of that can lead to hopelessness, a sense of powerlessness.

That's a normal human reaction to a percieved threat. Fight, Flight, Fright, or in this case, Freeze.

Make no mistake, a company the size of Village Roadshow will have amongst its ranks some pretty clued up corporate psychologists advising strategy.

So, not only are we being lied to, we're also being deliberately played.

Are you angry, yet?

Because after getting mad comes the getting active...