[4363] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: selling my soul
sorokin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sorokin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 27 15:07:18 1994
adwright, I think you missed the point. I wasn't saying you couldn't
have an opinion because you're not an activist. My mother has done more
for your ideals than you have and she would be seriously offended if you
said "fuck" in front of her. I don't want to hear it either. My *little*
*sister* has done a fair amount of work for your goals and I would be
really pissed if you swore that much when talking to her. Or my
currently-next-door-neighbors who went to Nicaragua for a year. Or any
of a lot of my friends who *agree* with your overall positions.
Does that make us complacent, conformist, fat-assed corporate wimp-outs?
I think not, and I find it offensive that you think so.
I wonder if you think smacking people around verbally is more important
that trying to change people's minds by getting them to listen to you.
That's certainly the impression I've gotten. I can't, honestly, respect
that a lot. I was raised in a tradition of activism, not philosophy.
