Carrol Cox quotes Leigh Meyers (ever so succinctly):
>
> I'm annoyed by people who drive gas guzzlers no matter what their
> ethnic backround is.
>
[The annoyance is contagious, and Carrol Cox catches it:]
I'm annoyed at people who sit on the sidelines and snarl at the terrain* without building actions and movements that offer a visible alternative to the joys of individual consumption. Until such a movement emerges, Three Cheers for the drives of SUVs (though I personally wouldn't be caught dead driving one).
Carrol
"Terrain" = the total culture of the u.s. working class, i.e. the total culture of somewhere between 80% and 90+% of the population. ~~~~~~~~~
A> Sitting on the sidelines and not driving one is taking action.
(I'll leave it to the theorist to build one, I might utilize it if it works...)
B> I'm having a wonderful time when I ride my bike (because I am!)
That makes it a visible alternative at a very real and human level.
C> I don't snarl at SUVs or the people who drive them, but sometimes
I exclaim publicly: "Look at the SIZE of that thing... Who needs *that*
when you can buy a five dollar boner pill?"
D> Honestly, are you waiting for a subtle shift in some jury rigged
statistic to tell us when the time is ripe for a "movement"?
What kind of movement are we waiting for? Panic move?
E> Go ahead, Cheer 'em on... Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
I've got better ideas, but it requires actually doing something. Even if that "something" is doing nothing!
(Help! Is there a zen buddist in the house?)
"...and if 2 people, two people walked in, sang a bar of alice's restaurant and walked out? They'd think they was both faggots and they wouldn't take either of them.
But if 3 people did it... three people a day, walkin in, singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out? they'd think it was a "movement".
And indeed it was...
Leigh Meyers leigh_m at sbcglobal.net
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