[lbo-talk] school uniforms

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Tue Aug 26 14:45:59 PDT 2003


Quoting Brian Siano <siano at mail.med.upenn.edu>:


> credit (which I use sparingly), a massive library at the University
> which I can use (as an employee), several large bookstores in town,
> several great _used_ bookstores for when I go on an antiquarian jag, CD
> stores where I can obtain damn near any kind of music recorded,
> relatively few weapons-toting religious fanatics,

You're describing the environs of a university town, and university towns are the privileged exceptions to the American norm: lots of culture, books, public spaces, people who care about their community, etc. -- like islands of social democracy in the neoliberal ocean.

-- DRR



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