FINANCIAL TIMES AS CULTURAL CRITIQUES
Due to me pension pains and me claims in cases of social justice I feel a strange kind of pleasure in reading the Financial Times. Erotic. The latest little piece I give you here - or at least little bit to chew :-
" ... the battle over evolution is a class conflict disguised as a religious or moral conflict. It is comforting to look at the fight over evolution as one that pits the educated against the ignorant...."
I didn't realise the FT employed demented Marxists [not that there are any other sort].
ReplyDeleteNow now Anticant. Calm down and behave yourself.
ReplyDeleteToday the FT ran this good story, yes. But hardly from a "demented Marxist" position.
A MARXIAN position is, in fact, quite normal and has been for many generations ( its the economy stupid for but one pathetic example).
Indeed Anticant many of your own anticantian bursts ( we love em) are rather Marxian but you are never to be labelled as a demented Marxist.
I'm not as demented anything. Sometimes, though, I feel as if I'm the only sane person left in the human lunatic asylum. See, for instance, this morning's "Telegraph":
ReplyDeletehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2689996/Children-aged-eight-enlisted-as-council-snoopers.html
If that link is too long, it's the leading item on the Telegraph website:
ReplyDelete"Children aged eight enlisted as council snoopers"
Why did they bother to disband the Stasi?
When there is a flicker of class consciousness ( the law of the land is in favour of the ruling class and all that) then younf folk do not snoop or snitch or tell-tales.
ReplyDeleteIt is all a matter of knowing the name of the big game.
I wish it was as simple as that. Thank your lucky stars you don't live in dear old Blighty any more.
ReplyDeleteSurprisingly, or not, NannyKnowsBest also has a take on that story.
ReplyDeleteWorst point is that the young snoopers can receive a bounty for doing the dirty deed - and I do not mean a chocolate bar.
The main issue for me has always been to snoop and snitch on those that really infect.
ReplyDeleteEven then do it in public for all to see.
But I am a simple rustic.
But that is the way to do it.