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[wolven7]

Poe - [Hello]--- Full night's sleep, last night, and i barely remember anything. Something about a delegation to help people understand something, and people asking me to put plans to action.

I have some Wilfred Cantwell Smith, to finish reading, today, before heading to class. The man writes in a style that is... You know how, on Peking Duck, the skin is so crispy, because they blow air in between the skin/fat layer and the meat? That's what it's like reading him. There are wonderful ideas, there, and the outside is this elaborate and unnecessary presentation. Something that could be done Much simpler. To be completely blunt about it, it feels like he's using big words, because he can. And that pisses me off, so much.

I like to think that I know something about word choices, and the exactness of etymological meanings, and connotations, but jesus fucking christ. (Voltaire - [The Chosen]). There is a point at which word choice becomes secondary to clarity, and where you can elaborate in phrases, for understanding, instead of being-- seemingly-- deliberately obtuse. Fuck.

On another note, i'm quite sure you've all seen some version of This, by now. (Massive Attack - [Inertia Creeps]). I'd simply like to state that, from the time i was in high school, and before, Freedom of Speech has been taken Away from children, in slow and subtle degrees. The ones who were There, when it happened, fought it, but those who came after took it as status quo. There are entire generations of children, out there, growing up not knowing what the fucking constitution means to them, At All. All because of the increased climate of fear, due to a few extremists, who did some terrible things (Columbine, &c.). Hmm. Are we seeing parallels? Are we seeing An Agenda, perhaps?

Restricting freedoms is as simple as getting people to accept that it's the status quo. So don't let them. Teach people, show them, make them understand what the fuck is happening, before people start getting shot in the street, for saying they didn't like what colour suit the president was wearing, during the SotU Address.

In two words: Fix This.

I'm off to school. You kids have good days, now, y'hear? Don't let the SS bite. Again.

Comments

[nausved.livejournal.com]

That frightens me. A lot.

The kids I went to high school with organized walk-outs and protests and wrote scathing newspaper articles which actually got confiscated (and later awarded when this unlawful censorship received national attention). It made me feel good about the future to know that my generation had backbone.

But then I read this.... Wow.... I feel I've been sheltered from what's really going wrong in this nation.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Like i said, climates have changed, in the past couple of years. And yes, i AM talking about the current President.

[tribeofone.livejournal.com]

You have no idea at what I have seen happen. For example, in 1983 or 84 George Carlin did an HBO special about new olympic sports one was roller fucking, but I digress, during another part of his routine, "Today a man in southern california has baricaded himself inside his house with attack dogs, and several machineguns....paused...and no one cares." Contemplate that as actually being considered by the audience as very very funny, because at the time no one did care, now the thought that another person might be armed causes people to freak, ala Rosie not touching my jacket because she once saw me pull a pistol from my pocket, weeks before.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

So strange, and so dangerously sad.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Mrr. Protests used to do something. Now the gov't encourages them cause it makes people feel like they're doing something.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Insinuation into t he system, and changing from inside.

Transmutation. Not presumptuous denial.