Thank you for sharing my podcast interview and also for this quote, “I am reminded just how much faith we middle class have in social welfare institutions. Because close them down and then what? What price this protection?”
It makes me think of an article I read recently by an adult who traveled the world with her family and who still seems quite resentful. I shared it in one of my communities and the middle class response seems to be, in England she would’ve been safe... or saved. But those of us from poverty or insanity or eccentricity, if we were close enough to gentility to call it that, understood differently. This belief that systems exist to save us is an interesting middle class concept.
The article was ‘Dad said: We’re going to follow Captain Cook’: how an endless round-the-world voyage stole my childhood’ by Suzanne Heywood in the Guardian.
Thank you for sharing my podcast interview and also for this quote, “I am reminded just how much faith we middle class have in social welfare institutions. Because close them down and then what? What price this protection?”
It makes me think of an article I read recently by an adult who traveled the world with her family and who still seems quite resentful. I shared it in one of my communities and the middle class response seems to be, in England she would’ve been safe... or saved. But those of us from poverty or insanity or eccentricity, if we were close enough to gentility to call it that, understood differently. This belief that systems exist to save us is an interesting middle class concept.
The article was ‘Dad said: We’re going to follow Captain Cook’: how an endless round-the-world voyage stole my childhood’ by Suzanne Heywood in the Guardian.