late-imperial torpor
I find these two items to be closely related.
posted by Chris Bray @ 6:47 PM
Sunday, June 01, 2008
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I found that the second posting provided underwhelming evidence for its conclusion.
Truckers have recently protested in the US as well. Also, the ports of LA and Long Beach were recently closed for a full day when workers organized a strike to protest the war in Iraq.
Granted, the American people need to do more to force changes in the way the country is being run, but to pretend they haven't done anything is to ignore real evidence of a growing increase in civic awareness and activism.
To pretend that the French and the British citizenry are somehow hypermobilized is to ignore that their intensity is nowhere near what it was in, say, 1968.
Well said, although I'd like to see a lot more of this civic awareness and activism stuff.
Britain is certainly not "hypermobilized"! I should know, I live here.
It must have the most passive citizenry in Europe.
After the defeats of the 80s protest has never really picked up again.
Sure, it spikes now and again, but demonstrations are rare and organised politics are at an all-time low.
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