Dear me, how surprising
So the BBC - among others - professes itself surprised at the depth and width of rage revealed in the demonstrations against student fee increases.
Well, let's see. Any Briton who is not a member of the class of down-and-outs - those who have no hope of permanent work and who are housed by councils - is already under a heavy doom to own money to the banks all his/her life because of his/her supposed universal duty to "get on the housing ladder" - that is, to make a life-altering debt in order to "own" the title to a house that really will belong to a bank so long as s/he lives. Now they are informed that, because the British state is itself near bankruptcy thanks to its unconditional support to those same banks, they are now going to be saddled with debt from the moment when they begin their initiation into adulthood and middle-class living.
(That is what a college course in Britain is today; an initiation period, in the anthropological sense of the term. It is not a coincidence that universities began to swell in size just as the previous initiatic period, military service, was being abolished. People instinctively seek to build these entrance rituals to adulthood.)
In other words, this government has decided that there is no moment in the adult life of a productive, wage-earning Briton in which s/he will not be in debt to the banks. The transfer of the country's capital from the public to the financial institutions is virtually complete.
Incomprehensible anger? Sounds to me like someone is beginning to wake up.
Well, let's see. Any Briton who is not a member of the class of down-and-outs - those who have no hope of permanent work and who are housed by councils - is already under a heavy doom to own money to the banks all his/her life because of his/her supposed universal duty to "get on the housing ladder" - that is, to make a life-altering debt in order to "own" the title to a house that really will belong to a bank so long as s/he lives. Now they are informed that, because the British state is itself near bankruptcy thanks to its unconditional support to those same banks, they are now going to be saddled with debt from the moment when they begin their initiation into adulthood and middle-class living.
(That is what a college course in Britain is today; an initiation period, in the anthropological sense of the term. It is not a coincidence that universities began to swell in size just as the previous initiatic period, military service, was being abolished. People instinctively seek to build these entrance rituals to adulthood.)
In other words, this government has decided that there is no moment in the adult life of a productive, wage-earning Briton in which s/he will not be in debt to the banks. The transfer of the country's capital from the public to the financial institutions is virtually complete.
Incomprehensible anger? Sounds to me like someone is beginning to wake up.