The Gentry Tangent
At first it was obvious, gentry being the word the blind finger pointed out, I should write about social inequality . Notes: I love the history of the big houses: shun the social sectioning… My politics are not politic: they are humanitarian, they are ecologically sensible... Looking at the origins of the word, is it possible to determine how clan became class… And class, nothing without cash, or the illusion of it… Whilst these thoughts trough and peak, a random searchlight throws out over the vast cybersea… Google it… everyone's answer to everything… What's this? Flotsam, jetsam, art… An artist, working with recently obsolete media: and I think of how the swift turnover in design is both progress and wasteful and how the human element is the element I am most drawn to even in this overwhelming volume of information. http://www.nickgentry.com/ 'What about a world in which, simply by living their lives, people create vast searchable recor