tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5093949.post5524439405304165916..comments2023-10-12T00:22:40.014+10:00Comments on Bush Out: Socialism, Anyone?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5093949.post-51976199062758590992008-01-10T09:30:00.000+10:002008-01-10T09:30:00.000+10:00What was it the teacher kept telling Holden Caulfi...What was it the teacher kept telling Holden Caulfield? Don't digress!!!<BR/><BR/>But I digress... :-)<BR/><BR/>I remember going to my first Marxism 101 tutorial at Sydney Uni in 1983. The tutor asked the class how many thought there would be a social revolution in Australia within their lifetimes, and HALF THE CLASS PUT THEIR HANDS UP!<BR/><BR/>I was gob-smacked. What planet were these people on? I was only attending the class because I had the hots for a beautiful Argentinian girl, who was equally bemused by their response. <BR/><BR/>I guess some of them must be thinking nowadays that Bush is the best thing that ever happened to global politics, since he has quite possibly hastened any potential "revolutionary" changes by a decade or two.Jaraparillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06336314539987735082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5093949.post-30155042340569244072008-01-10T08:55:00.000+10:002008-01-10T08:55:00.000+10:00When my daughter (who I hadn't seen since 1999) wa...When my daughter (who I hadn't seen since 1999) was down here over Christmas holidays, I discussed socialism with her. She's a tattooed punk-rocking 18-year-old uni student who goes to anti-war demos with my ex. More left than most Americans twice her age. So I wanted to see what her view of socialism was.<BR/><BR/>She said that she went to one meeting of something that styled itself the "socialist club" in her high school. They were forbidden to meet on school grounds, so they gathered under a tree outside the campus. Her perception was that they were a bunch of 9th-graders (she was in 11th at the time) who were primarily interested in talking about how "all the authorities suck, man." She was not impressed.<BR/><BR/>This is coming from someone who's at the prime age and mindset to have a flirtation with socialism. (Unlike me, who's biologically committed, al la Einstein's declaration of our innate natures, to work hard so that I might amass MORE material comfort to support my bourgeois lifestyle. But not in Gordon Gekko ways that screw over other people, I might add. I mean, I earn my keep [in part] by cleaning up people who have pissed themselves, in order that they not get bedsores from lying in their own mess.)<BR/><BR/>Where was I, before I got off on a tangent? Just finished my fourth 10-hour midnight shift in a row, and I'm winding down before I collapse on a day that promises to hit 41 degrees. In Melbourne! Is that fucked-up or what? Oh Oh! Renewed tangent alert!!!<BR/><BR/>Anyway, my daughter should be a prime candidate to be a red-heart socialist. But she sees socialism as a mob of immature, petty whingers. That's America for ya. Socialism is the new black (and I mean that in the 1950 Negro sense of the word...)Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.com