Jerry Garcia, Abby Hoffman and Noam Chomsky making tea…I have the oddest dreams
It started with me taking a job in California – as a writer or researcher. But my office was too loud or annoying to get any work done, so I went for a walk, looking for a park or somewhere sunny to write.
When I got to the park, the corporation who owned it wouldn’t let me write there, so I kept going and ended up in a corporate complex of some sort, where I just plopped myself down at a desk and started writing.
After a while, I started talking to the people who worked there, who – as it turns out – were being treated no better than slaves. And I started doing research to figure out how much money they were owed.
(Odd interlude of me walking around a deserted, unpaved road with much foliage and bears and little creatures of the forest.)
So, I drew up this list of demands to hand to the boss-man and he read them, then he painted this 60’s flower power sign and painted “NO!” all over it. I asked the workers if they wanted to strike to continue the fight…and they did.
Cut to a house decorated in 70’s kitsch, with all the workers gathered. Jerry Garcia was singing into a phone message machine…something about the time between Halloween and Christmas (oddly enough, when my baby is due). Abby Hoffman was lecturing the workers on the “workers united will never be divided”, and Noam Chomsky was making me a cup of tea.
Ha! Figure that one out Freud!
I don’t think Deep Blue could figure out that one.
-Confused
-Moridin
Now if only Mumia Abu-Jamal and Angela Davis were there, or even without (Chonsky and Hoffman are ENOUGH…) the dream could be construed as a liberal ideaology representing itself in the dreamstate. Are you questioning your political convictions perchance?
No…but I have been politically agitaged since I joined that simulated senate thing…which I’ve since walked away from…because OMG it was ridiculous. I swear to you, democrats calling for the repeal of abortion…even in cases where the life of the mother was in danger…phrases like “well, she shoulda kept her legs closed then.” And those…those were the rational people. It was awful. And the gun control debate…made the abortion debate look rational.
Sheesh…if there were ever a group of people who needed to fed into an abattoir…it was that group of people. It’s been years since I was that angry at people I didn’t know.
How old were these people? Was this a college thing? I couldn’t put myself through it, because being the only genius in a room full of morons (as i’m sure you know) is a waste of time, and also futile and irritating.
Anyhow, my point:
If they are over 18, all of them need to be sent to a re-education camp. I still don’t know where to blame the ignorance, lack of higher thought, lack of analysis within our culture. Blame the parents who raised them that way? Blame the T.V. that is filled with garbage, replacing human interaction, debate, and issues? Blame the schools? Blame our own leaders and parent’s lack of insistence on accountability, education, and discipline.
I just don’t know. All of the above, perhaps, has produced dumb ignorant fat americans who say things like “she should have kept her legs crossed” and “you’re stupid” and all of the other inane things I’m sure you heard. Like the moron in the Navy who wrote on a bomb, that was to be dropped on Afghanistan during our campaign to eradicate the Taliban, “Take This Fags”. That right there shows just how dumb so many people are, and they don’t even know it. They think they are normal.
And while these lazy dumb americans drive around in their SUV’s with their American Flag stickers stuck on the back, I guarantee they couldn’t name the original 13 colonies.
A patriot? And American, are they? Please.
How many could actually understand that America in 2002 is not at all what was intended by the founders of the country. With our “enemy combatants” and current violations of civil liberities that are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, we are living in a nation whose underlying principles betray what that American flag used to stand for.
I *ASSURE YOU* that if people such as Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Edmund Burke, and John Adams were alive today, less than 25 percent of Americans would be able to hold a discussion with them, understand their philosophy, agree with any of their philosophies should they understand it.
To put it simply, we truly have evolved technologically and industrially, but intellectually our society has downgraded a few notches.
We are dumb all over.
Yep. Preach on, brother man, Preach on!