29 janeiro 2016

posh boys

Perhaps it's time now to stop mapping political differences along the left-right dichotomy. The great political, intellectual and emotional chasm of our world runs between transnational elites with access to diverse forms of social, economic and cultural power, and masses who feel left out from the global party and who express their fury and resentment through social media and xenophobic movements.
We have entered a perilous new era in politics, where a whirlwind of raw emotions is blowing away all the verities of the past. The global elites, whose competence and moral legitimacy are questioned like never before, need, as Martin Wolf wrote in the Financial Times last week, "to work out intelligent responses." Until then, progressively more and more intemperate outbursts against posh boys will define political life.

2 comentários:

marina disse...

acabaremos por cortar as cabeças aos posh boys , tal e como fizeram os nossos bisavós aos das perucas encaracoladas :) nada de novo debaixo do sol , ou é preciso dar muita volta para ir parar ao mesmo ( ou qualquer coisa assim ).

Euro2cent disse...

> "to work out intelligent responses."

Chama-se "Universal Basic Income", e vem aí.

Os nossos donos lá viram que tinham de abrir os cordões à bolsa, mas acho que os criados bem pagos é que ficam com a maior parte da conta.

É a vida (Costa).