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[polychromatic22]

The last few days at the ATL General Assembly have been weird.

I was there Friday night when it was voted to go ahead with the occupation. There was some stuff with Congressman John Lewis that was... well, it's made people flip their shit. One way or the other. Some people are angry at the idea of him speaking there at all. Others are angry at the

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[polychrome_baby]

Mom can walk in even when the blog is locked, hon.

That's creepy mom. Don't be creepy. Mostly we ignore the fact that you stalk us online. It's impolite.

Yeah, I know you weren't directly connected to the communes, but you did live through the time of them, and you did watch the Flower Children grow into Earth Mothers. Which mostly meant having to do twenty times the work, because you were making it from scratch, or doing it without power. The idea that this somehow had more value as a life style is a weird one for people who haven't studied what the practicalities of it are.

I know the women did the work, because I've spoken to lots and lots of people who did communes. What almost always happened is babies. Then one of two things happened. Either, people continued on as if things were the same, and horrible things happened with the kids (food poisoning, medical emergencies of all sorts, stuff like that). OR, the women became very responsible and did the hard, hard work of having to be responsible for themselves, their babies and near everyone else.

Clear message/demand - this doesn't bother me, either. The clear thing is that right now, how things are is not okay. My side project is working on that, actually.

Sense of satisfaction - I don't worry too much about getting caught up in the group politics of fitting in. I mean, I keep it in mind, because I'm human, and it's a human neural twitch, you know? It's just... my critical analyst pretty much is always standing there. As you said.

Love you.