Jeff Ott may just make a squatter out of me!

[corporatehippy]

How many times have I heard some human in a suit or a frat costume telling me to get a job, as though an absence of a job means something besides not having a job. I could work at McDonalds(and destroy the peoples land in south america, torture cows with factory farming, poison people here and encourage people to not cook for themselves), I could

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[bluesindallas]

you're a genius.

[gp1963]

I disagree. Not all jobs are as you portray them. I plan on actually beginning a church. To save lives. Granted I will be paid, but that is not why I desire to do such a thing. I want to take my love for my God and share it with people in a new radical way. I want to show them that God is more than hymns, more than suits, more than some sort of cosmic-put-down.

And by the way, I work at Tinseltown, which is currently destroying the worlds supply of popcorn. :)

[anonymous]

Maybe I would've found that interesting/relevant if you in fact did not eat fast food, read books, use money, ride in cars, eat fruit, and in general benefit from all of the things you just bashed. Supporting all of the industries you just mentioned is just as bad as working for them. If you are so above capitalism and jobs, then move to the middle of nowhere with absolutely nothing and grow your own food and be completely self-sufficient and then maybe you will have the right to think you are better than everything. Then you could spend your time doing more productive things than writing nonsense live journal entries trying to justify your unemployment.

[startop]

what ever happened to subverting the system from within?

Are you really going to advocate that a strategic point of resistance would be to not benifit from the current system where you could without choosing to be a blind battery?

Subvert the system from within. Grow stonger while you dissent?

why no?

[anonymous]

New Age psycobabble. Besides what social structure would you suggest? A benevolent monarchy? That's played out well in the past...remember Nero? Khan? HITLER? Or maybe a Marxist society? Complete and utter communism. which obviously didn't have anything to do with a select few in power taking all the wealth and and leaving the rest of the populas starving and desolate. Eventually leading to widespread revolutions And I know that in protest the "evil" government not using its vast wealth to feed the world you have sold most if not all of posessions to aid those starving in Africa. Oh and there isn't muc of a shortage of wood with the governments current plan, which entails planting as much as they take...so as to ensure that we will always have wood.

[startop]

New Age psychobabble?

Do you know what those phrases mean?

Please, elaborate.

And since when is the alternative to unsafe farming practices and military dictatorships a benevolent monarchy or some form of communism? We'rent there hospitals in Russia?

How about stedy reform?
Or possibly, ETHICS?

this isnt multiple choice hombre.

your wood comments were stupid.

I got some wood for ya.

hahahaha

[anonymous]

Oh I would definitely agree a reform would be the best option...an ethical reform. But therein lies the problem. For an ethical reform you would have to have a underlying belief system. Pick any belief system you want, Islam, Christianity, The New Age movement, but there has to be a basis for reform. As you are well aware of there is not even close to any common ground amongst americans today. Were such a melting pot of culture and religion. Also I hardly believe the American government can be classified as a dictatorship, I think thats what you said correct me if I'm wrong. Bush only has as much power as the representatives and senators that WE elect give him. Hence the Democracy. If were unhappy with the country we need to get the word out that it starts not with protests against Bush but with rallying behind the Representatives that best hold out views.

[startop]

Have you ever written a letter to your congressman?

It doesnt do shit.

Plus, republicans have a pretty firm agenda

plus
they control congress

plus
we got fucked throuigh redistricting.

But i did not mean that the US is a military dictatorship at all
But we do instal;l them, sell them arms, fund them, train the, etc.

Hence the link to working in the military.

[gp1963]

Interesting as all of this may be, it's a wonder there are happy people anymore.

Maybe a little less negativism? What good has it done anyone? They may accomplish, but what can these achievements possibly serve them if only to make them more unhappy about what else could be changed? I swear a pessimist could find something wrong with paradise.

I know, I know... You're probably going to tell me to go start my church and preach to people who want to hear it.