boiling a frog

[bluedevi]

I wasn't really planning to go to a protest on Wednesday. I knew there was something happening at Goldsmiths but I didn't have the details; I thought they might be occupying the library or something. If I'd known what was going to happen I'd have brought food and water and a flask of tea and worn more jumpers. All the jumpers. But whatever was

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[cardinalsin]

Mind if I post this to my facebook?

[bluedevi]

By all means.

[cardinalsin]

Thanks. And thanks for writing it... there's a propaganda war going on and every eye-witness account helps.

By the way, you may be interested in this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgxwTF-qeAo&feature=player_embedded

[coalescent]

Thank you for writing this up.

[millionreasons]

Thanks for that; it's really useful to know what actually went on (and the resilience of people).

[bluedevi]

Well, in so far as any one account can be said to be 'what actually went on'... but thanks.

[millionreasons]

Well I meant, as opposed to the police/media reportage.

[ladymoonray]

Thank you. For doing something, and for writing about it.

[bateleur]

My faith in doing things through the proper channels is dwindling by the minute.

The question, really, is not whether one ought to have faith in the "proper channels" so much as what approaches or mechanisms could theoretically replace them. We apparently had a fair, democratic election in which tens of millions of people voted for "yes, please shaft lots of people and put the money in my pocket". Faced with that situation, I don't really have a plan.

[bluedevi]

Tens of millions, yes, but far from a majority...

[bateleur]

Absolutely, but for me that isn't actually what matters. What matters is the massive resistance to doing anything good. There's so much stuff that's tricky enough to solve with everyone working together... but no, instead we've got a substantial percentage literally pulling the wrong way!

[bluedevi]

This is basically what I'm thinking when I'm being flabbergasted at the Tea Party. A feeling of not even living on the same planet.