Growing up in England amidst the 'culture of the ruins and the ruins of culture' one cannot fail to notice the majesty in the abundance of surviving Victorian architecture. Glorious parks, libraries and other great public buildings of the highest order grace even the smallest towns and unimportant cities. There are allotments too, and playing fields, cricket pavilions and suchlike, plots of land donated to the people in perpetuity but sadly rapidly being sold off by neo-socialist councils hell-bent on lining their own pockets by circumnavigating the documents that secure the ownership of these assets to the masses.
Victorianism is a dirty word in England these days. These same neo-socialist busybodies who now rule us like to dwell on the sexism, the imperialism and the child labour of that great civilization. But one thing about the Victorians, the really knew how to spread the wealth.
As a child I had simply assumed that the great parks and libraries were built by the Victorian governments. But as I grew older and looked more deeply into the economics and ethics of Victorianism I realized that this wasn
Growing up in England amidst the 'culture of the ruins and the ruins of culture' one cannot fail to notice the majesty in the abundance of surviving Victorian architecture. Glorious parks, libraries and other great public buildings of the highest order grace even the smallest towns and unimportant cities. There are allotments too, and playing fields, cricket pavilions and suchlike, plots of land donated to the people in perpetuity but sadly rapidly being sold off by neo-socialist councils hell-bent on lining their own pockets by circumnavigating the documents that secure the ownership of these assets to the masses.
Victorianism is a dirty word in England these days. These same neo-socialist busybodies who now rule us like to dwell on the sexism, the imperialism and the child labour of that great civilization. But one thing about the Victorians, the really knew how to spread the wealth.
As a child I had simply assumed that the great parks and libraries were built by the Victorian governments. But as I grew older and looked more deeply into the economics and ethics of Victorianism I realized that this wasn
Growing up in England amidst the 'culture of the ruins and the ruins of culture' one cannot fail to notice the majesty in the abundance of surviving Victorian architecture. Glorious parks, libraries and other great public buildings of the highest order grace even the smallest towns and unimportant cities. There are allotments too, and playing fields, cricket pavilions and suchlike, plots of land donated to the people in perpetuity but sadly rapidly being sold off by neo-socialist councils hell-bent on lining their own pockets by circumnavigating the documents that secure the ownership of these assets to the masses.
Victorianism is a dirty word in England these days. These same neo-socialist busybodies who now rule us like to dwell on the sexism, the imperialism and the child labour of that great civilization. But one thing about the Victorians, the really knew how to spread the wealth.
As a child I had simply assumed that the great parks and libraries were built by the Victorian governments. But as I grew older and looked more deeply into the economics and ethics of Victorianism I realized that this wasn