The language of militarism is not something I want to resurrect but how did we get to this point where we (once again - judging from the Victorian literature) decide that poverty was a matter of inevitability and moral failings? Why is it acceptable that some people are homeless and others live in government homes with leaking roofs and no money for heating?
how did we get to this point where we (once again - judging from the Victorian literature) decide that poverty was a matter of inevitability and moral failings?
Because it makes it possible to claim that having more money is a sign of moral (and any other kind of) superiority. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
dickensian was the word that kept forming in my mind...
it's called 'lifting them out of poverty' cuz the alternatives obviously suck more. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
