Well remembered. Those were the days. I have an enduring image, a photo on someone's wall actually, of a bunch of us outside someone's house waiting for the bailiffs. The family that lived there weren't part of our scene, they´d just called the bailiff support phone tree number that was stuck on telegraph poles all over the place. As with the miner's strike, there was a level of community support whose absence of expression brings nostalgia closer to neuralgia. As you say, it's curious that the technological increase in networking capacity since then hasn´t resulted in an increase in actual community networking, instead the opposite it seems. Reminds me of a cartoon I saw of a woman and a priest alone at a graveside funeral, with the woman saying "I don´t understand it, he had hundreds of friends on Facebook¨. And I second that emotion about phones at actions. Few seem to be aware of the IMSI-catcher/¨Stingrays" parked at a distance surveilling via all those phones. Celldar was disturbing enough, never mind the phone data poncing tech in those vehicles.
Well remembered. Those were the days. I have an enduring image, a photo on someone's wall actually, of a bunch of us outside someone's house waiting for the bailiffs. The family that lived there weren't part of our scene, they´d just called the bailiff support phone tree number that was stuck on telegraph poles all over the place. As with the miner's strike, there was a level of community support whose absence of expression brings nostalgia closer to neuralgia. As you say, it's curious that the technological increase in networking capacity since then hasn´t resulted in an increase in actual community networking, instead the opposite it seems. Reminds me of a cartoon I saw of a woman and a priest alone at a graveside funeral, with the woman saying "I don´t understand it, he had hundreds of friends on Facebook¨. And I second that emotion about phones at actions. Few seem to be aware of the IMSI-catcher/¨Stingrays" parked at a distance surveilling via all those phones. Celldar was disturbing enough, never mind the phone data poncing tech in those vehicles.