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Turn Left?
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, February 21 2011, 13:27:38 (UTC)
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I had that sensation all through the Hippie Yippie days in the 60s. I saw the credit card weekenders who arrived in normal clothes and changed into their leathers for a weekend of "rebellion". These people were phony all along...they didn't change one day...they were just flexing a little rhetorical muscle...a little fling before "reality" set in...so few were honest.

I remember once going with a group to the state capital of Washington, Olympia...against my better judgement, to protest a proposed cut in food stamps, which were keeping us students alive. It's the only time in my life I ever joined anything...ever entered a group, no matter how transitory...I went mostly because of friends...anyway on the ride there, in a VW Van, no less, one young sweet thing was regaling us about Marxist theory and how the revolution was coming....I could take no more when she extolled the coming Workers' Rule....I asked he if she'd ever worked with Workers? She obviously hadn't worked a day in her life. I said I had worked with Workers...in the fields, in factories, in shops and there was no way I wanted to be ruled by THEM.

The Rebel never cuts the rope that ties him to his torment...he just tugs at it and strains and pulls for a while, till it begins to hurt after which he usually calms down and gets "real"....whereas the Revolutionary begins by cutting the rope and walking away.



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