--- joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net> wrote:
> Thomas writes:
>
> "By the way, I do not deny being privleged. I also
> refuse to be brow-beaten by another person who is
> privleged, relatively speaking. I suspect that the
> "game" or "fun" aspect of politics wont be liked by
> those who feel they are morally one-up and couldn't
> be
> subject to such a base reason for being political
> such
> as "fun">"
>
> I wasn't brow beating you, I was suggesting how
> someone might not think of politics as fun -- not
> because they are righteous, narrowminded, hierarchy
> bound, joyless (puritannical) -- because for them
> it's simply a matter of life or death.
>
> I have personally never witnessed nor been part of
> "fun" politics. I have met a few people who do a lot
> of political work. They don't look like their having
> fun; they look like they're doing the most thankless
> and arduous job ever devised. For example, I watched
> my office mate put together a sign-in campaign for
> the retrial of Mummia. It took him the better part
> of a year, working nearly full time, to put together
> the funding for running an ad in some of the major
> papers in the U.S. and to get well-known artists and
> writers to sign the petition. There are lots of
> things that aren't all that much fun that are
> definitely worth doing. And I don't think that
> having fun is base in any way. I just don't like
> corporations organizing my fun (as in sports as
> spectacle.)
>
> Joanna
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