Tapas Ray [Gmail] on Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:27:55 +0100 (CET) |
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Sorry, John. Sincere apologies. The events you point out no doubt show that things can happen in the US. However, it has always surprised/confounded me that not a single American in private conversation (in my experience, which is about five years of graduate work) has anything but negative things to say about the US health care system but it still remains in place and has not been confronted head on - until Obama, that is, as far as I know. And when the Republicans seem bent on wrecking Obama's initiative, there is no upsurge of public anger as far as I can tell ... at least no such upsurge seems to have made it to the media in India. In a country of near-full literacy and high levels of college and university education, where the poor are better off than, say, some "lower-middle class" people in India, I find the existence of 40 million people without medical insurance (in a nation of 330 million?) totally inexplicable. And then take the universities. I know there have been actions in some instances against cutbacks, but there hasn't been any nationwide protest action as far as I know, even though there seems to have been lots of faculty lay-offs. Best, Tapas On 19 February 2011 23:19, John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net> wrote: > Ei Tapas -- > >> Simply unbelievable. I never even suspected that Tahrir Square could >> echo in the USA. > > I don't think it is echoing, except as a media construct, but, really, it's at > least a bit offensive to characterize a whole country as full of fat sleeping > slobs, although there are those who are precisely that here (and elsewhere). # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org