–Even Cambridge can’t teach empathy, apparently
Feb. 26, 2024 — Opinion and reporting by Mathew Carr
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Yet please keep in mind that …while Tower Hamlets council in east London, governed by a party representing the local Bangladeshi community, might be wasting some public money and / or not overseeing it as tightly as it should …THE REAL WASTE AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ARE TAKING PLACE AT THE COUNTRY LEVEL WITH THE UK GOVERNMENT FAILING TO REGULATE BANKS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE WEALTHY PROPERLY … INSTIGATING WASTEFUL, DEADLY WARS.
These wars will create terrorists that will indefinitely reduce everyone’s security and boost revenue for the military-industrial-intelligence complex.
This is the waste and double dealing that is most outrageous and must be stopped.
The UK government, which is taking Tower Hamlets to task for wrongdoing, is one of the biggest wrongdoers on earth — it is seeking to deflect focus onto Tower Hamlets and away from itself.
The council area is one of the poorest in Britain.
Conservative party and government members have deep links with security, fossil fuels, banking and hedge funds. THESE CONFLICTS ARE HARDLY SCRUTINIZED BY REGULATORS OR EVEN THE CORRUPT CORPORATE MEDIA.
One program that Tower Hamlets has started is encouraging residents to apply to Cambridge and Oxford universities, institutions that sorely need more diversity. Graduates from these two famed academic institutions are running Britain into the ground, I contend.
A list by Wikipedia suggests 30 UK prime ministers have attended University of Oxford while 14 have attended Cambridge.
NOTE: I’m declaring my interest — I live in Tower Hamlets (which has allowed the erection of Palestinian flags by the way … I wonder if the UK government is retaliating partly because of that, too? hmmm).
I recently traveled on a bus and had a sandwich lunch with my daughter at Cambridge Uni under the program outlined above. I asked three people familiar with the uni how it is that people graduating from there can oversee the killing of thousands of innocent children in Gaza (for instance).
One didn’t answer. The two others separately blamed the people’s socially isolated upbringing BEFORE they arrived at Cambridge.
“You can’t teach empathy,” said one of them. I was pleased to learn that the computer science course does include modules on ethics, for instance.
