Sat with a youngster tonight, whilst an elder, over 60 chatted with him. Kind of lectured him... that's what the elders do? Maybe... But he had so many memories, so much to share and for us to learn from. .. can we all still talk to each other?
He argued there wasn't the consciousness today, there wasn't the collective labour movement to share it out, challenge things the way they did. He knew about the general strike at an early age, because of his politics? Maybe? Because that was a time more working class people were in collective environments, more space together. As manufacturing got smashed, and work become more individualised and isolated we grew away from each other, they needed that to control us. Control our selves.. sat staring at shadows.. frightened to move.
If we don't have a memory of the events that are hidden, suppressed, or stolen. What happens, what impact does that have... ? What do we then see, if we don't know the layers behind. Things unseen..
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