I was reading an obituary to Peter Fonda yesterday and an interesting point was made: Easy Rider was a social commentary at the time, but it's just as relevant today as it was in 1968. The rednecks haven't gone - they're now in charge.
Yesterday we went to Raglan Castle for a nose around. While I have some regard for the nobility, mainly because their family squabbles for power essentially comprises what is our history, it's iniquitous that someone like the Duke of Beaufort owns half of south Wales for no other reason than one of his ancestors was mates with a king. All that land needs redistributing to those more deserving - like small farmers whose future is under threat. Feudalism, which was a power structure based on patronage, is a system of the past, but its legacy is still with us to this day.
Yesterday we went to Raglan Castle for a nose around. While I have some regard for the nobility, mainly because their family squabbles for power essentially comprises what is our history, it's iniquitous that someone like the Duke of Beaufort owns half of south Wales for no other reason than one of his ancestors was mates with a king. All that land needs redistributing to those more deserving - like small farmers whose future is under threat. Feudalism, which was a power structure based on patronage, is a system of the past, but its legacy is still with us to this day.
Good God! Am I turning into a communist in my later years? No - it's just that my sense of the need for justice and fairness is increasing with age.
Off to London for a funeral for a friend.
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