Been spending a fair chunk of time in London recently and as I wander around the streets it's impossible not to notice the gap between the top and the bottom of our society. This is layered on top of the shear historical perspective that you get looking at the rich array of scruffy (poor) and stunning (rich) buildings and the realisation that things have been this way for a very long time. Humans need to learn this lesson, there is no one out there who's going to resolve inequality, no one who's going to resolve injustice, no one who looks after us, it's down to us and us alone.
I saw some down and outs hanging around in the freezing cold in a really old part of Clerkenwell last week that put me in mind of the (London centric) author Charles Dickens and this quote from Great Expectations.
“And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful if would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.”
As the French would say, plus ca change!
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