It's National Anarchy Month, you know...
(I'll give you a minute to think about that...)
(Heh!)
Seriously, all month, Evergreen has been sponsoring this thing called the Total Liberation Project. I haven't caught many of the events, but from what I HAVE seen, it's a bunch of wacky hippies getting together and arguing about technology.
You -- who are reading this, who either don't think technology is a terrible thing, or don't give a damn -- wouldn't believe some of the bizarre arguments that have come up... Folks advocating living in the forest off roots and berries. It's become something of a joke among those of us who don't envision ourselves seriously living in trees forever, eating only fruit that actually FALLS from trees (gahd-forbid you pick a fucken apple, after all...), and losing contact with all human inventions such as asphalt. And language. Have you ever read "Clan of the Cave Bear"? About the cavemen? Yeah.
Okay, so if we can accept that technology is evil, where do we draw the line at what technology is good, at least in that we'd need it for survival? I mean, what the fuck? Are we going back to the days of the wheel? DOWN WITH THE OPPRESSION OF THE STICK!!!!!!!!!!
(In all seriousness, I would not make fun of any of these people except that they're so damned serious about their positions...)
Q: How do you starve a 'Greener to death?
A: Hide his dad's credit card under the soap...
Anyway, I went to an event tonight called "Anarchist Smackdown." Heh! Yes, I'm VERY serious. I could make these things up, but rest assured, I'm not. I like these debates. Often, they're almost too ridiculous to become actively involved with, and devoid of any sort of joy. If somebody was going to make a horror movie about intellectual snobbery, I'd suggest they start with the Total Liberation Project. It would be a MUCH more enjoyable experience if everybody had a rum-and-coke in front of them. Unfortunately, there aren't many ways to passively make a rum-and-coke fall from a tree, so the Total Liberation kids are destined to remain sober and joyless.
So. The Anarchist Smackdown. I wanted to see some smacking going on. Alas, the only blows dealt were verbal, although by the end of the conference, I felt like smacking a good number of people. Anarchists are good people, kids. They REALLY are good people. And they've got good intentions. But they're very, very weird. And all but maybe four or five of the 50+ attendees of the Anarchist Smackdown had their heads SO far up their asses that they couldn't see the forest for the feces.
There was no smacking. I was severely disappointed.
Wish I had a rum-and-coke.
Love,
~Helena*
"A person should not believe in an 'ism'; he should believe in himself." --Ferris Bueller.