A GENERATION OF WIMPS |
| Published: June 16, 2008, 8:33 am |
| Tags: realpolitix, bush, college students, mario savo, radicalism, wimps |
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“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!” (Mario Savo, December 3 1964.) Ah, the old days. Mario Savo was speaking to the Free Speech Movement at a sit-in in front of Sproul Hall on the Berkeley campus in 1964. This was one of the flashpoints of the Student Movement that led to all kinds of fear and loathing back in the 60's. The kind we don't have anymore. Now all our fear and loathing is government sponsored, heavily edited, and doled out when politicians need a bump in the polls. In the unmitigated [ Full article ] |
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