Clocks are being turned back these days, in more senses than one. In this time of year I always get back to this song, particularly for this verse: ‘I've come to smell the seasons change, & watch the city / as the sun goes down again’, but it has to be said that Matt Johnson’s bleak description of 80’s Britain is also quite suitable to my country as it stands right now.
Renowned Italian sociologist Luciano Gallino wrote in 2012 that since the end of the seventies in the Western world there has been a sort of class war of the rich against the poor, and as I look at the sorry state my country is in these days, and being myself a poorly-paid high school teacher with students that sometimes cannot afford to go on school trips, I feel that in a way that war is still raging on, even when it’s becoming clearer by the day..
..that neoliberal recipes for growth simply do not work, and that will end up as a loss for all social classes, not only for those who benefitted more from the 20th century Welfare State.
Sorry. Rant over. On with the music.
6 Comments (since 29 Oct 2014)
lucathequietone
Clocks are being turned back these days, in more senses than one. In this time of year I always get back to this song, particularly for this verse: ‘I've come to smell the seasons change, & watch the city / as the sun goes down again’, but it has to be said that Matt Johnson’s bleak description of 80’s Britain is also quite suitable to my country as it stands right now.
lucathequietone
Renowned Italian sociologist Luciano Gallino wrote in 2012 that since the end of the seventies in the Western world there has been a sort of class war of the rich against the poor, and as I look at the sorry state my country is in these days, and being myself a poorly-paid high school teacher with students that sometimes cannot afford to go on school trips, I feel that in a way that war is still raging on, even when it’s becoming clearer by the day..
lucathequietone
..that neoliberal recipes for growth simply do not work, and that will end up as a loss for all social classes, not only for those who benefitted more from the 20th century Welfare State. Sorry. Rant over. On with the music.
mloup
Great choice...
Axol
Amen to that. The bastards.
lucathequietone
@Axol you said it, brother..