Durant wrote:
[snip]
> The problem in Russia is not that people "forgot how to care",
> but that they haven't got the means to care. Same as in the UK,
> if mental patiens are "released to the community" without the funding
> of future specialist care for them, a new layer of the destitute is
> created.
[snip]
There is an article in today's (Tue, 31 Mar 98) New York Times,
about the current attitudes in Russia (or whatever those fragments
of the sometime *Soviet* *Union* are now
called...). It sounds far worse than
Margaret Thatcher's [~no-longer-great~] Britain.
It looks like it may indeed be the case that people in Russia
are forgetting how to care. We may be witnessing
the first Chernobyl of the spirit there.
To cite (from memory) Bertold Brecht, yet again:
Student: Happy the land that breeds a hero.
Galileo: No! Unhappy the land that needs a hero.
\brad mccormick
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