Roused rabble

This afternoon, I was part of this crowd of about a hundred people who
stood on the sidewalk waving signs and inducing motorists to show
their support for the preservation of Bryn Mawr, the property behind
us. It's a lovely house on seven acres of green grounds that a
developer wants to tear down and tear up for condominium apartments.
The city has been complaisant to the developer's demands. We don't
want it to happen, and a good 80% of the thousands of rush-hour
motorists passing by agreed, if their honks were anything to go by.

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Justfolk ^club

Yep, those are rules they play by.

By those (noxious!) rules, "wealth" is narrowly defined in terms of private transactions between deed holders and would-be deed holders, with no regard to the collective/community wealth of public places and with no regard to the losses that are incurred by everyone else in a community when such public places are destroyed.

In the course of the last three or four decades, the whole notion of governments' responsibilities to preserve collective rights has been chipped away. Nowadays too many people feel those collective rights (and those collective responsibilities) are akin to theft. That's a neo-liberal myth but the myth has become reality for large numbers of people and governments.

Sigh. The older I get, the more clarity I have in my radicalism. Clear, indeed, but sadly pessimistic.

8 years ago.

Justfolk ^club

Aha! You are even more pessimistic!

8 years ago.

Justfolk ^club

Ahhh, your great countryman Antonio Gramsci would respond that what we call reality is most often a hegemonic illusion!

8 years ago.

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