I don’t want to piss too deeply in his probably manky pockets, but Guy Rundle has that wonderful gift of being able to express that nagging notion that was just a little beyond grasp. He’s got a good mind on him that lad.
Thus for all their differences, the dominant mood in both societies is one of bewilderment. In the US, the cultural legitimation of capitalism has been so given over to consumption as a quasi-spiritual act that the prospect of its disappearance, of the elevator to nowhere suddenly reaching the top, cannot really be assimilated to current experience. In the UK, the social contract that Labour would run a social market, emphasis on the latter, society and that growing wage inequality would be compensated for by vast improvements in education, health, urban amenity, has barely been borne out – and now appears to be dead-stopped in its tracks.
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Agree so much with you Jonathan. Also he has the ironic lyricism of a Raymond Chandler. ‘An elevator to nowhere’ : ‘dead-stopped in its tracks’.
The same thing you have when you said ‘the rumble of the presses starting up for the next edition. (Not an exact quote, I know)
V.