Archive for September, 2003

charity begins

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003

One of the perils of modernity is that charity is taken out of the streets and packaged into isolated, decontextualised moments, as components of the holiday season, or reduced to a monthly automated GIRO payment, etc.
Barely perceived, charity’s newest mode, with a twist of schadenfreude, is otherwise known as tourism.

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