Very very good Michael. I wanted to reply to Chris's piece but you
have done it for me.
Tim A.
On 13 Jan 2012, at 11:58, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> And yet, cultural establishments exist (it is better not to think
> only of poetry); they are much better exemplified by the Institution
> and by mass structures than by the supposed individuals concerned:
> e.g. in this case schools, colleges, newspapers, radio programmes,
> prizes, societies, diplomatic exchanges, tourism hotspots... They
> exist and their patterns persist, like social classes, in spite of
> all the individuals who decry social class or prefer never to
> mention it. They persist like the morale of sick institutions,
> exemplified by no single employee yet hugely resistant to
> transformation. The outsider's view, as so often, is the perception
> that must be silenced if it can't be dimmed. And the response to the
> outsider -( "but you don't understand, if only you could meet... you
> would soon see... etc etc")- itself manifests the effective though
> invisible self-defence of the establishment.
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