I wasn't really planning to go to a protest on Wednesday. I knew there was something happening at Goldsmiths but I didn't have the details; I thought they might be occupying the library or something. If I'd known what was going to happen I'd have brought food and water and a flask of tea and worn more jumpers. All the jumpers. But whatever was
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The question, really, is not whether one ought to have faith in the "proper channels" so much as what approaches or mechanisms could theoretically replace them. We apparently had a fair, democratic election in which tens of millions of people voted for "yes, please shaft lots of people and put the money in my pocket". Faced with that situation, I don't really have a plan.
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(They get my facepalm icon... but only because I don't have a worse one!)
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Do you think so? I don't think the current Government's policies were well trailed in the election, either in the formal manifestoes of the winning parties, or in their public utterances, or even in the themes of their campaigns. Indeed arguably many members of the Government pledged to do the opposite of what they're doing. So I don't think it's fair to blame the electorate for this, tempting as it is.
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But that's the way visual media works now, nothing of substance.. it's all about personalities and conflict, nothing that can't fit into 15 seconds of video is reportable. I've gotten completely fed up with TV in general these days when even in shows about technology and science they have to bring some kind of spurious competition in let alone go into the more interesting technical details.
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