Comments | louk: So you say you want a revolution?

louk

So you say you want a revolution?

Aug 07, 2003 00:39

I spent a lot of my time at work today prepping things and trying to figure out what it would take make american kids care about politics. The tricky part was not making any assumptions, and being realistic about what kind of thing kids would be willing to listen to. I think the problem we've run into in America is this: young people are largely ( Read more... )

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magurast August 7 2003, 09:17:25 UTC

I think that is a great idea. I wonder though how many people it would actully each. Besides that I think it is far more important that we get our generation to vote than it is to convince them to sign onto our beliefs and causes. If you make it too one sided you'll push more people away than bring them in.

ashenmisfit August 7 2003, 13:00:30 UTC

FUCK THE POLICE!!!!

wonderbrenna August 7 2003, 14:13:35 UTC

I think that's a great idea. But only if I can be Subversive Suzy.

The revolution will not be televised. tleeves August 7 2003, 14:47:36 UTC

Gil Scott-Heron's song foretold that we might have to get up off our easy-listening asses and do something if we really want a revolution.

Meanwhile, trying to out-subtle madison avenue is a sucker's job.

Be honest. It's a radically different approach.

Lou ashenmisfit August 8 2003, 07:44:16 UTC

Lou, if you want I can be that bit of eye candy you need. CNN and NY Times are part of the mass media which become state run in times of war. So those are all just propaganda tools that the government uses. You only hear that we raided a small compund and killed so and so "terrorists" you don't hear that we also killed innocent civilians in the process. Like I bet all of you kids who have posted in my friends journal and others who read it don't know that The United States, land of the free and home of the brave, is the only country to be convicted of genocide. Not even Hitler's Germany was convicted after WW2. The best places to get your news are right here on the home front...in such things as the NY times, because they will always be the ones to point out what America did right. And the second place is find an online newspaper from some country that hate's America...shouldn't be that hard. Because they will point out all of the things America did wrong and downplay what we did right. So you take what we did right and group it with ( ... )