On Fri, Aug 29, 1997 at 11:19:32AM -0400, Anonymous wrote:
Kent Crispin wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 1997 at 06:17:09PM -0500, snow wrote:
Well, the current system stinks, but enough people are buffalo'd into thinking that it works, so it is doubtful that it will get better.
People are not "buffalo'd" -- they are happy with a system that gives them a good life. Therefore, it has to get worse before it gets better.
I am happy that Kent has finally realized the need to Monkey Wrench the "system" to the point where enough citizens get off of their too- comfortable asses and address the issues which are leading to an increasing number of their fellow citizens being persecuted and fucked over by the government.
I have known since I was a grasshopper that people trying to effect change have a vested interest in making current reality look bad. People entrenched in the power structure, on the other hand, have a vested interest in making current reality look good. This is an interesting competition for observers, bystanders, and citizens. If the power structure is flexible, and incorporates changes that are viewed favorably by the citizens, then the power structure "wins". But so do the citizens. When change doesn't happen, or especially when it goes in a direction undesired by the revolutionaries, but liked by the citizens, the effort to make current reality look bad intensifies. When change irrevocably passes to an unwanted state, and the revolutionaries "lose", a residue of Bitter Old Revolutionary Extremists (BOREs) results. These toothless old tigers, clinging to their youthful dreams, rage at a reality that passed them by. Snarling and perpetually misunderstood, they wither and waste away, Cheshire cat evil grimace postcripts to history.
{Now that we've got Peter Trei forging posts and Kent Crispin is ready to nuke D.C., how long can it be before we convince Blanc to bomb a daycare center?}
I can't speak for Peter or Blanc. I have no desire to nuke anyone. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html