> that ain't us in
> our free time at all, is it? And certainly not when the poo hits the fan.
Rob, I've never really understood why a clever chap like you, goes in for
this demotic and mostly incomprehensible pseudo-aussie dialect-babble. Most
Australians under 30 are right here in London, in any case. We socialise a bit
and I can tell you, they don't talk this way. They live in Earls Court and
work in every pub inside the North Circular. Some of them (they are from
Melbourne) live right next door to me. We go to Epping Forest and pick
mushrooms with them. They tell us intelligently about their travels and I am
very envious. One chap from NSW just came back from Glasgow and in between
describing Hogmanay there (he got drunk, fell asleep in the street, and some
mischievous Scot stole his [size 12] boots but not his mobile, passport or
credit cards; so he had to walk back in the snow to his digs, barefoot thru
broken new year's eve glass, but somehow, triumphant)-- he told us about 6
weeks spent examining the remains of the Byzantine empire in modern Turkey.
He's on this list, btw, like a few other Aussies. His mailbox overflows every
few weeks; that means he's somewhere especially out of the way and I am even
more envious than usual. (I can't fly on planes any more, evidently, so altho
I feel pretty good, I'm constantly just catching up with people; recently I
was in Wales, however. When civilisation finally nosedives I plan to go back).
> When we KNOW shit's coming
> down, we are a species to wonder at - beyond the reach of a whole corps of
> economics lecturers - we team up, put our lives on the line, cop a beating,
> and love each other for a full week afterwards.
Unfortunately, this is either untrue or irrelevant. Yoi simply ignore what is
staring you right in the face: the whole vast agglomeration of dead labour,
ie, infrastructure, whose servants our masters are, and we and they are in
thrall to that.
Mark
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