20th July 2011, 07:14 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:Before PPG came MSC, before MSC came DoE/SDD, before DoE....etc etc....we had 20 plus years where central government paid for most archaeology in Britain, one way or another, and of course the Ministry of Works employed archaeologists back unto the dawn of time...ah, happy days....has only really gone tits-up since developers have recently had to stick their hands in their pockets to keep us employed
And before we had civil liberties and human rights we had racism and slavery, before we had electricity we had the steam engine and kids up chimneys, it doesn't really matter what we had before (seems a strange thing for an archaeologist to say I know) but having had expectations raised that some form of system might be put in place where the polluter pays etc etc reaching back to the subsistence wages and living in an old caravan doesn't really appeal so it depends on your definitions in the first place when determining something has gone tits up. Sorry, that was a very long sentence, hope it makes sense. Harping back to what we had and how great it apparently was seems a little unhelpful. Obviously I am not tough enough to want to experience it; it does sound a little like the sort of thing managers used to always say 'we had to put up (with this sort of shit) so you can too'. Have we not moved on or should we just hang the white flag from the parapet?