Looking sideways at the problems of today:
Back in the 60s writers of the day were confidently anticipating that ours would be the Leisure Society: we would only have one day’s work each week because our technology and economic position in the world would be doing it all for us.
Few foresaw governments reluctant to let us enjoy our leisure. First they funnel us into never ending target led education, then they encourage us to audit each other by filling in more and more forms that make less and less sense, and now they plan to recruit half of us to therapize the other half and create a kind of smoke screen to conceal the real scene (Observer, 8th March).
Who will ask you how it feels to be all alone and without a home now that the bubble has burst? An army of newly recruited form filling government trained ‘therapists’ whose own good character will be policed and guaranteed by the hpc.
Sunday, 8 March 2009
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