A Ca Ira

[poliphilo]

I was a student revolutionary - and I'm happy to see the kids are back on the streets and occupying lecture theatres again.  A bout of political activism is an education in itself- and will teach you more about politics and the psychology of crowds and what the individual human being is made of than you will ever get from books. I learned to despise the Trots and how brittle potheads are and how easy it is to mislead the press and what comradeship feels like and all sorts of useful stuff like that. Really, it was one of the formative events of my life.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We were occupying a building on campus. The head pothead and his acolytes were there, chilling for the revolution- and stuck with it until it got to be a little demanding and there was a possibilty of the police being called. At this point he stormed out, blethering- with his acolytes at his heel.

I'm not proud of my generation. We fucked up.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is indeed rather brittle.

I honestly don't know about your generation. To say that they fucked up seems a bit harsh. I have very mixed feelings about it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Some of us fucked up- Tony Blair and George Bush, for instance. Others didn't.

I was an idealist. I thought governments headed by children of the sixties would be less warlike, less materialistic, more humane. I was wrong.