“There is no such thing as society”
“And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.”
Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Prime Minister, 1987
“It’s a consumer riot. These people are completely depoliticised, obsessed with consumer items yet too poor to buy them. When that frustration comes to the surface they’re not going to know who or what to take it out on, so they attack everything. Our culture fashioned these people into consuming morons, it’s not surprising when they act like violent morons when they can’t get what they want.”
Darren Cullen, Artist, 2011
UPDATE:
“When you’ve been told there’s no society, why would you care about other people?”
Tony Evans, football editor of The Times, 2011
thanks pete. totally spot on and good timing.
Im sick of it but in some way glad its surfaced (again…)_
cxx
No worries Carole; hope everything is ok for you. I feel the same way – at once sick of it, but relieved that the obvious stress-points in society have been shoved in the faces of people who don’t know better.