Saturday, December 8, 2012

Austerity Costing Posterity

The bitter cost of what the 1% has done to the whole world's economy goes far beyond a few miserable poor folks' incessant griping.

We're losing world history now, because archaeology and preservation are no longer worthwhile to governments in economic straits.  Imagine the prospect - 40% of Italy's sites ALONE are at risk today.

Scholarship, culture - the world must bite the dust, because the wealthy of the world refuse to break out the Pledge and a dustrag.  It is revolting.  And it is the stuff revolts are made of, not for nothing.

2 comments:

Mojourner said...

If I were a cynic, I'd say it's worse than you describe, that there are 1%-ers who consider themselves collectors and are only to happy to see that governmental protections are cut out of the game

DLM said...

If only that were cynical.