[18] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: LIVING WAGE SIT-IN AT HARVARD (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandy L Evans)
Thu Apr 19 11:24:15 2001
Message-Id: <200104191432.KAA28644@department-of-alchemy.mit.edu>
To: Wally <wally@sub-zero.MIT.EDU>
cc: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>, Zhelinrentice L Scott <zlscott@MIT.EDU>,
mit-talk@MIT.EDU, liane@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:07:57 EDT."
<Pine.LNX.4.21.0104190959290.15305-100000@sub-zero.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:32:05 -0400
From: Brandy L Evans <liane@MIT.EDU>
Resent-From: jhawk@MIT.EDU
Resent-To: mit-talk-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
>As for this 'living wage' thing: Fuck it! I'm with those wacky fools, the
>objectivists. Why should we care what happens to the have-nots? We're at
>MIT, baby, we're the HAVES, baby!
>
>Thus spake Wallythustra.
Preach it, brother!
But seriously...
I agree with whoever made the point that MIT students are capable of
making more change once we get out of here than while we are
here. This does NOT mean that we shouldn't be socially conscious while
we are here - but the fact is, we all have a limited amount of time,
and the little bit that people might have left over for activism has
to be allotted to something and not to something else just like
everything else. You have to pick your battles. Now, some might argue
that no MIT student should "have time left over for activism" but
instead should make it a priority - but again, if we are better able
to serve our causes by getting an MIT degree and then going out into
he world to change things, shouldn't we focus on that?
I fully support the protest at Harvard - I come from a blue collar
family, I grew up hovering just above the poverty line. But I didn't
go to the protest, b/c I didn't have time. That doesn't mean I don't
do *anything* politically active, just that that particular thing
wasn't a priority for me. I take the tiny amount of time I have left
for such things and put it to other uses.
I was writing more, but I didn't get enough sleep last night and I
completely lost the point I was trying to make with the rest of it, so
I'm gonna end this email now. I think it had something to do with the
fact that MIT students often do really care about particular issues,
but that doesnt' mean they have time to do anything about it.
-Brandy
