Eleven footnotes? This is almost as long as the essay I need to write for art history Kate! I will confess I have not read all of it, my dad wants me to watch Dr. Strangelove with him.
Indeed, Kate is the only person I've ever known to make a livejournal post with footnote text this much longer than the body text. Ah, Reedies.
/ SISKO: Do you know what the problem is, Major? The problem is Earth! KIRA: Huh? SISKO: On Earth, there is no crime, no poverty, no war! You look out the windows of Starfleet Headquarters and you see paradise. Well, it's easy to be a saint in paradise, but the Maquis do not live in paradise. Out here on the frontier, there's no saints, just people. Angry, scared people who are going to do whatever it takes to survive, whether it meets with the Federation's approval or not. KIRA: Makes sense to me.
//more intelligent commentary when it's not one in the morning
The footnote text isn't that much longer than the body text... and hey, at least they're all linked. (I could make things far more difficult for you, young man!) /nonsensical
I catch the Star Trek reference (and note your Star Trek icon, which I believe you've explained the specific context of once before), but am not wholly familiar with the context, or the connection.
I don't see you as burnt out, actually; you certainly still care about what's going on in the world. There are people I know who don't even bother to think about the outside world, and those are the people who frighten me.
So why do these two movements get so separated from each other? I honestly don't know. I'm left, however, with the impression that it all comes back to education. It takes a surprising amount of intellectual effort to sit down and sort through the different claims of each group, to try to figure out where the generalizations are and where the hidden concordances between their ideals lie. The effort of making connections and seeing patterns is where I think intelligence matters most; it is also, I fear, where most of middle America lacks both practice and interest. I've observed the separation of movements, too, although I don't spend enough time with computer-minded types to have observed a distinction between 'political' and 'internet' activism. One possible reason is that different issues capture people's interest. It's easier to care about something that you have experience with or that you find fundamentally more romantic
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And yeah, I did perhaps go overboard on this one. Oops.
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SISKO: Do you know what the problem is, Major? The problem is Earth!
KIRA: Huh?
SISKO: On Earth, there is no crime, no poverty, no war! You look out the windows of Starfleet Headquarters and you see paradise. Well, it's easy to be a saint in paradise, but the Maquis do not live in paradise. Out here on the frontier, there's no saints, just people. Angry, scared people who are going to do whatever it takes to survive, whether it meets with the Federation's approval or not.
KIRA: Makes sense to me.
//more intelligent commentary when it's not one in the morning
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/nonsensical
I catch the Star Trek reference (and note your Star Trek icon, which I believe you've explained the specific context of once before), but am not wholly familiar with the context, or the connection.
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ask me sometime about what high school was like. you wouldn't believe i was the same person.
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You're good.
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