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![]() File under: Fake Culture08 Mar 2013 9:10 EST |
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That's the rather jovial question on everyone's mind over at People Of The CTA: One wonders: how many of the 1,000 and counting who have liked this photograph have heard presentations on the plight of the misfortunate throughout their public schooling? How many have gone through some form of corporate sensitivity training? How many of them publish advertisements of their charitable donations on Facebook, how many have expressed concern for the children of Africa? Or, on the other hand, how many are aware that mayor Rahm Emmanuel is planning to sell this carcass of a human institution, the CTA, to Goldman Sachs? Perhaps this man knows these things. Or at least he has felt the sting of their hypocrisy in every indifferent glance and sniggering laugh cast against him. The Anglican priest Geoffery Studdert Kennedywrote a beautiful poem of this man, though he had never met him. I've taken the liberty of updating it to fit Mr. Emmanuel's postindustrial dystopia:
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