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This is from today's Guardian, for the benefit of non-British ILMers I should point out that Rowan Williams is Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Anglican Church and, thus, the most powerful and influential religious figure in the UK:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1049088,00.html

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 25 September 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.livingstonemusic.net/hangman.htm

i wrote that *just* too early for the whole Rowan Williams thang, worse luck ... still, it makes me all the more regretful that Ian MacDonald chose to take his own life; incidents like this are proof positive of the rightness of his theory that hippie culture, at least in the ISB sense of the term, was not (as conservatives at the time and subsequently thought) explicitly part of the breakup of the Christian construct of society, but a warning against the loss of such spiritual influences. by those wise criteria it isn't as big a leap from the days of Michael Ramsey and Donald Coggan as it might seem - not as big a leap as an archbishop of Canterbury liking, say, 80s Michael Jackson or Madonna records would be, anyway.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Friday, 26 September 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmmm, if I get time I'm gonna have to sit down and read this article Robin but if I can just quote one of my favourite bits of Marx to partly explain the Left's antagonism to rural life:

"The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life."

I don't necessarily believe this is true but I do think it is hilarious and shows that Marx had a wicked sense of humour.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 26 September 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

indeed ... the role of the industrial bourgeoisie in creating the mass working class which would only be crushed (in Britain, anyway) in the 1980s, always one of my favourite paradoxical subjects. mind you, I know a man who uses the term "Marxist" every few seconds and so hilariously fails to understand it that I sometimes can't believe what I'm reading ... will reveal more on request.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 27 September 2003 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

more robin, more.

― stevo (stevo), Saturday, 27 September 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

ps The House at World's End rocks

( http://elidor.blogspot.com/ )

― stevo (stevo), Saturday, 27 September 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

many thanks, stevo. long time no talk ...

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 27 September 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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