And they have not read a book. But times do change, and the hidden sins of yesterday can erupt tomorrow to consume and extinguish you. Precisely that appears to be going to happen now. Tomorrow is almost here. And it throws shadows of amorphous fear in the minds that have not trained to reflect.
Unions are no longer able to do duty for cartels of organized self-interest.
The protection they had historically afforded against exploitation came somehow to be abused to protect the exploitative and lazy lifestyles of the protected. Now that the principles of accountability and transparency threaten to rewrite the code of conduct in the academic workplace, the guilty conscience espies a global design against the rights of the masses and the integrity of teachers. A vague but ornamentally formulaic resistance, propped up on obsolete ideological insights, is voiced. You can read the press statements of the union leaders and notice how severely fatigued and bored they sound. There is neither vision, nor wit in them.