Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@Msongini @moshik_temkin @samhaselby Striking, even then, how aware folk were of her impact upon national character - the pivot from a social fabric in which, no matter how flawed, stumbling or archaic, gentillesse still effectively functioned as a cultural counterpoint to the rank pathologies of materialist excess.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 17 Feb 2021
3/ Thatcher declared, “There is no alternative.” It’s capitalism all the way down & all the better when clothed in the raiment of tradition & religion, a beatific vision of a heavenly city of corporate capital, a pecuniary surrogate for the Eternal Gospel. ?s=20
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