on ché

Oct 28, 2005 21:36

To those who will never follow in his footsteps, submerged as they are in a world of cynicism, self-interest and frantic consumption, nothing could be more vicariously gratifying than Che's disdain for material comfort and everyday desires.

i don't think i've ever read a better explanation as to why the upper middle and normal middle class consumers of america are so obsessed with everything that is their opposite.

vicarious living - lifestyle of the american bourgeoisie.

end of the paragraph that quote came:

Is it conceivable that one of the only two Latin Americans to make it onto TIME's 100 most important figures of the century can be comfortably transmogrified into a symbol of rebellion precisely because he is no longer dangerous?

hhahahaha hahah ha haaaa....

fucking dicks, i have never seen a better effort to marginalize a revolutionary.

taken from the oh so liberal time magazine
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