No clue what you think.
as for the emoticon, you addressed me and carrol. were you talking to a turd in your pocket you've name shag? normally, when I name my turds, I flush them. perhaps this is another thing that makes me so awesome?!
At 07:08 PM 10/26/2011, Mike Beggs wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:27 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>
>wrote:
>
> > I think the role he advocates is much like mine: under every day
> > circumstances, when so much is against us, our job is to keep the soil
> > fertilized, tilled, and as weed free as possible. When ruptures occur
> > and drop the seeds of revolutionary movements, it will have mattered
> > whether, all along, we were tilling, fertilizing, and weeding.
>
>So when Godot arrives - perhaps there is some kind of global financial
>crisis, or the US government starts a war on a dubious pretext - and a
>bulk of the population has a conversion experience en masse and joins
>the radical left, they reach the streets to find that the meeting
>procedures have already been thoroughly worked out?
>
>Seriously, I think the difference is really over what we take to be
>the soil that needs tilling (and maybe over who the weeds are). I'm
>not so confident that the things that sustain street activism and
>activist culture are the things that change social structures more
>broadly. Of course, I don't think they hurt either; perhaps they're a
>necessary but not sufficient condition. Activistism is good at
>occasional spectacular, inspiring flare-ups, but it's not the be-all
>and end-all of a successful movement.
>
> > I mean, if I'm gonna be a narcissist, why not consider the purty
> > little flowers an' all.
>
>Gosh, you really thought that song was about you, didn't you? :)
>Mike
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