The Antoninos

'... a telling irony that, while the majority today enjoy freedoms a tiny minority once owned, much of what the majority once took to be the most 'real' aspects of their humanity are now minority experiences - the production of food, the building of shelter, the intimate processes of birth and death and disease [...]

we have lost contact with what defined, for most people throughout history, the daily texture of their lives and the matters they held in common with previous generations'

Prospect, Sep 07