Anniversary

billbartlett at dodo.com.au billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Fri Sep 20 11:31:20 PDT 2002


At 4:06 PM -0400 19/9/02, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:


>Roughly speaking, the lower your income, the less likely you are to vote in
>the U.S. The bottom 50%, in general, don't vote here.

After a long hard day at work the last thing you feel like watching on TV is a heavy documentary. Its mentally wearing as well as physically wearing. A big feed, a few beers and something escapist is more attractive.


>I'm not sure how the static categories of blame, responsibility, and
>culpability further the project of changing such.

Blame and culpability aren't very productive I admit, but the concept of responsibility has to come into it somewhere. The socialist project inevitably implies an increase in responsibility and if we aren't even willing to shoulder the little civic responsibility of political democracy, then its a waste of time talking about socialism.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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