In the 60s at Sydney University there was a cafe that rivalled the great cafes of the Paris Left Bank or New York's Greenwich Village for lively discussion of arts, current events, philosophy - and sex. Gemaine Greer, John Bell, Bob Ellis, Albie Thoms, myself, and many later-famous people hung there. Online interaction is wonderful, but cafe society is exciting too. Come back grotty, lively, cheap, ugly cafes whose walls are covered with posters and photos and whose patrons have minds!

Clem Gorman

whose patrons have minds!
clem gorman,
you mean those indoctrinated unwavering ones ?

I agree, Clem.

I doubt this would be happening in any universities today.

Individual>> whose patrons have minds!
clem gorman,
you mean those indoctrinated unwavering ones ?<<

Bit tough Indy, correct but tough.
Clem he has a point, in a pub you get pub philosophy, in a yacht club you get yacht club philosophy, in an under graduate watering hole you get undergraduate philosophy…we hang with like minded people so the direction of outcomes runs along the tracks laid down.

But in saying that I spent many happy hours in uni bars seeking out those who think like me….I failed…I got extreme right or extreme left. I personally found bohemia away from the uni haunts.

You’re livin in the past …

Your comrades have moved to the big quad up the road and hold well paid, tenured positions. Now-a-days when they’re not pushing “whiteness theory ” to impressible undergrads they’re fielding picket lines.

Can you believe it, this semester has only been up and running a little over a month and there’s already been three day-long strikes.

Clint Spqr-person

Bit tough Indy, correct but tough.
sonofgloin,
Yeah well, I would refrain from being so sarcastic but as long as I'm made to pay for their coffee I feel entitled to air my sentiments.