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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29953611
Last edited by chuck power (2014-11-25 09:17:24)
There's little appetite for protest at the moment. Last year I asked my friend's 20yr old daughter what she was doing on the National Students Day of Action and she replied 'going shopping'. The only ones with any real commitment and consistency are the nuclear disarmament crowd but most of them are old age pensioners.
Not sure if this a generational thing or we're just a product of our times and enviroment? Society was (or at least seemed to be) a lot more polarised politically in the eighties - but, however bad it was, the only people using food banks were striking miners ! Now it would appear on the face of it, that we accept inequity as a fact of life and have a fatalistic attitude to wealth gravitating toward the top echelons of our society - at the expense of everyone else. Then again, perhaps all that has really changed, is that modern youth and wider society in general, aren't niave enough to think that they were ever in a position to change it anyway ....
The 80s were a long time ago now, but they were good and bad in equal measure.
It was the last splendid gasp of common culture and media.
It was also the last decade that actually ended dead on time, by January 1990, the preppy brightness had been replaced by the dull 1990s and Generation X.
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