The kids are all right
Posted on | October 20, 2007 | 2 Comments
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October 20th, 2007 @ 11:31 am
lol
got into an argument at work with an anarchist cause i was wearing a kevin 07 t. she was like, there is no choice. i was like, don’t get intepellated into the consumerist rhetoric of ‘choices’. she was like, but they are the same. i was like, it will certainly stay the same if there is not change. she was like, but there will be no change either way because there is no choice. i was like, don’t vote because of a choice, vote for change, it is a struggle that exceeds this election, we need help to create new possibilities… then she went on a rant about disliking capitalism. i asked what capitalism was and argued it was not something ‘out there’, some external system, it is lived through us. then she was like, so how can we change anything. i was like, you have to embrace the present, even those bits you don’t like, to shift it towards other possibilities, as it is no use enacting a blanket refusal as that has no efficacy. she was like, refusal is important. i was like, i totally agree, but we need to turn the power of the negative into the power of affirmation and affirm other possibilities…
October 20th, 2007 @ 11:44 am
“what up my diggers” LMAO!