In The Run Up To A General Election

[poliphilo]

We are beasties, smart beasties, but still beasties.

We move in herds or packs. Herd Leader says "follow me into that valley because there's good moss to eat there," and we follow.

Even if past experience suggests that the moss will be scarce and the wolves plentiful.

And when Herd Leader says, "herd member X is unpleasing to me and needs to be driven out," we turn on herd member X and butt them in the ribs.

All of us together.

We disgust me sometimes.

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I took an English class a few years ago with some undergraduate students. Almost to a one, they were conservative, what we refer to in this country (and I with derision) Republicans . Not that there is anything wrong with being a Republican.

But the person I remember most is Josh Coffman. He must have been brought up by hippie parents. He went to WAshington to demonstrate against the WTO (and lost two teeth because of it. ) He wanted to be a lawyer but he was going to a different kind of law school.(hm...)

I thought of him when you mentioned stragglers and outliers.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid it was fashionable for students to be left wing. Now it seems to be fashionable for them to be conservative. I don't suppose this represents anything more than a mechanical swing of the pendulum.