FOR ONCE

For once I really like the English. Respect and admiration are very different from liking, which is the first emotion I felt on reading about students protesting in London yesterday over the new Government’s austerity program, which will drastically cut its support of education. The students are not going gently into that good night. Makes me wonder what—if anything—will happen in the USA when the new Congress announces its austerity program, with the same sorts of cuts to education and other ‘entitlements’ like Medicare, rescinds health care reform, while extending tax breaks for the rich.

Interesting, is it not, how the protesters’ violence is directed towards buildings symbolizing political and economic power, and not towards the actual persons responsible for the situation. Ah, architecture…. Ah, civilization!

LW

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