Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Cambridge: Jolly Good Old Boy!


Isn't it scary lovely. I've spent a long time in England (mainly in Surrey and London) but being in Cambridge actually feels like you're in England... or the stereotypical version of it. Aesthetically it feels somewhat protected from the worst excesses of corporatism/neo-liberalism.Wandering around the place it's obvious that the powers that be have some respect for it, unlike most of the rest of the country where rabble like myself live. I felt I was intruding on their privileged playground, but if you ignored the fact it's a bastion of elitism (along with Oxford), there are worse places you could spend an afternoon. It's also sobering to see where the the moneyed class send their privately-educated kids to develop their superiority complexes. The stats speak for themselves.




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