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Και ίσως το καλύτερο άρθρο για τα επεισόδια μέχρι στιγμής:
The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom
Το άρθρο δίνει μερικά εξαιρετικά παραδείγματα διαφθοράς παρόμοιου επιπέδου των ίδιων των πολιτικών που ζητάνε αυστηρή τιμωρία κλπκλπ (πλαστές αποδείξεις για αγορές ηλεκτρικών ειδών κλπ από το γνωστό σκάνδαλο) και του πρωθυπουργού και αναφέρει μερικά παραδείγματα από τους πλούσιους και τη ζωή τους.
Φυσικά εγώ πιστεύω ότι η ανισότητα ξεκινάει από το σχολείο και συνεχίζεται στο πανεπιστήμιο (μερικά πτυχία είναι πιο ίσα από άλλα). Όσο για την ανηθικότητα της κοινωνίας, δε νομίζω ότι είναι καινούργιο φαινόμενο.
Αποσπάσματα:
... I believe that the criminality in our streets cannot be dissociated from the moral disintegration in the highest ranks of modern British society. The last two decades have seen a terrifying decline in standards among the British governing elite. It has become acceptable for our politicians to lie and to cheat. An almost universal culture of selfishness and greed has grown up. It is not just the feral youth of Tottenham who have forgotten they have duties as well as rights. So have the feral rich of Chelsea and Kensington.
[...] Most of the people in this very expensive street were every bit as deracinated and cut off from the rest of Britain as the young, unemployed men and women who have caused such terrible damage over the last few days. For them, the repellent Financial Times magazine How to Spend It is a bible. I’d guess that few of them bother to pay British tax if they can avoid it, and that fewer still feel the sense of obligation to society that only a few decades ago came naturally to the wealthy and better off. Yet we celebrate people who live empty lives like this.
[...] But the rioters have this defence: they are just following the example set by senior and respected figures in society. Let’s bear in mind that many of the youths in our inner cities have never been trained in decent values. All they have ever known is barbarism. Our politicians and bankers, in sharp contrast, tend to have been to good schools and universities and to have been given every opportunity in life.
The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom
Το άρθρο δίνει μερικά εξαιρετικά παραδείγματα διαφθοράς παρόμοιου επιπέδου των ίδιων των πολιτικών που ζητάνε αυστηρή τιμωρία κλπκλπ (πλαστές αποδείξεις για αγορές ηλεκτρικών ειδών κλπ από το γνωστό σκάνδαλο) και του πρωθυπουργού και αναφέρει μερικά παραδείγματα από τους πλούσιους και τη ζωή τους.
Φυσικά εγώ πιστεύω ότι η ανισότητα ξεκινάει από το σχολείο και συνεχίζεται στο πανεπιστήμιο (μερικά πτυχία είναι πιο ίσα από άλλα). Όσο για την ανηθικότητα της κοινωνίας, δε νομίζω ότι είναι καινούργιο φαινόμενο.
Αποσπάσματα:
... I believe that the criminality in our streets cannot be dissociated from the moral disintegration in the highest ranks of modern British society. The last two decades have seen a terrifying decline in standards among the British governing elite. It has become acceptable for our politicians to lie and to cheat. An almost universal culture of selfishness and greed has grown up. It is not just the feral youth of Tottenham who have forgotten they have duties as well as rights. So have the feral rich of Chelsea and Kensington.
[...] Most of the people in this very expensive street were every bit as deracinated and cut off from the rest of Britain as the young, unemployed men and women who have caused such terrible damage over the last few days. For them, the repellent Financial Times magazine How to Spend It is a bible. I’d guess that few of them bother to pay British tax if they can avoid it, and that fewer still feel the sense of obligation to society that only a few decades ago came naturally to the wealthy and better off. Yet we celebrate people who live empty lives like this.
[...] But the rioters have this defence: they are just following the example set by senior and respected figures in society. Let’s bear in mind that many of the youths in our inner cities have never been trained in decent values. All they have ever known is barbarism. Our politicians and bankers, in sharp contrast, tend to have been to good schools and universities and to have been given every opportunity in life.
