Think...what could be if...

[undergroundpanther]

What if they called and you didn't answer..

Dropping Out:
A Revolutionary Vindication of Refusal,
Marginality, and Subculture
Rolling Thunder #2
Crimethinc Ex-Workers Collective

At this moment, an employee in a grocery store is setting out genetically engineered produce rather than tending the garden in her own yard;

A dishwasher is sweating over a steaming sink while dishes stack up unwashed in his kitchen at home;

A line cook is taking orders from strangers instead of cooking for a neighborhood barbecue;

An advertising executive is composing jingles for laundry detergent rather than making up bedtime stories for his nieces;

A poor woman is watching rich people's children at a daycare program rather than spending time with her own;

A child is being dropped off there to be cared for by strangers rather than those who know and love him;



An activist, tired from a hard day's work, is putting on a Hollywood movie for entertainment;

A man who could be exploring his sexuality with a partner is masturbating to internet pornography;

A demonstrator who has unique perspectives and reasons to protest is carrying a prefabricated sign issued by a bureaucratic organization;

And a would-be revolutionary who left behind everything he knew to pursue an engaged, beautiful, meaningful life is making references to television programs with his fellow dropouts in utter boredom and dejection.

The system runs on the blood and sweat of our hijacked lives. The more we invest ourselves in surviving according to its terms, the more difficult it is to do otherwise. Seizing back our time and energy from its jaws is the essence of and the precondition for any real resistance.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060610134717980

[Lilith Velkor]

1. Yet few seem bored enough to go enlist

I guess there's an upside to all this manufactured selfishness after all.