16th February 2006, 12:59 PM
There are massive changes required in just about every area of archaeology. It is clear that the lack of discussion is not due to lack of need, more like a lack of faith that positive change can be affected.
Like you I hope to see galinisation take place!
I would say, though, that a lot of discussion is taking place at all sorts of levels, granted not as publically or visibly as a lot of us would like. We can all contribute as individuals, through the differnt groups and organisations that we belong to. Initialtives like the Heritage link
http://www.heritagelink.org.uk/index.asp
demonstrate that it is possible to join forces effectively to agree on strategies to bring about the changes we all want.
I also think that comparitely few real changes could have a profound efect for the positive on this whole sector, and allow the structures that this country already has to act in the ways that they want to. and I am afraid that lobbying to make the right things happen, takes an awful lot of meetings, discussions and paperwork, as well as leafletting demos and the rest of it
at the risk of sounding pious, and giving away my political allegiences, I have always found thois quote from an old gren party manifesto inspiring
We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure -- EF Schumacher
Like you I hope to see galinisation take place!
I would say, though, that a lot of discussion is taking place at all sorts of levels, granted not as publically or visibly as a lot of us would like. We can all contribute as individuals, through the differnt groups and organisations that we belong to. Initialtives like the Heritage link
http://www.heritagelink.org.uk/index.asp
demonstrate that it is possible to join forces effectively to agree on strategies to bring about the changes we all want.
I also think that comparitely few real changes could have a profound efect for the positive on this whole sector, and allow the structures that this country already has to act in the ways that they want to. and I am afraid that lobbying to make the right things happen, takes an awful lot of meetings, discussions and paperwork, as well as leafletting demos and the rest of it
at the risk of sounding pious, and giving away my political allegiences, I have always found thois quote from an old gren party manifesto inspiring
We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure -- EF Schumacher