Comments | littlejenmc: Its been a while....

littlejenmc

Its been a while....

Sep 27, 2005 22:03

yeah so like after 6 months of office bearing, campaigning, motivating and informing students and trying my darndest to stop VSU its become apparent that the conservative forces are just too much and we're not going to win. nay, we never really had a chance. (but the battle had to be fought ( Read more... )

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illykai September 27 2005, 22:37:37 UTC

During the vote counting for the most recent US election was the point at which I realized that I seem to live in a different world to the majority of the English-speaking world. The last few years have been big political disappointments for me, running from the fizzling of the reconciliation agenda after such a tremendous turn-out of supporters, through Labour crossing a union picket line outside NSW parliament over the WorkCover issue, attending Socialist Alternative meetings and finding that they were so fixated on modern class distinctions that they couldn't see any pre-capitalist precedents for racial discrimination, war in Iraq despite huge protest, conservative governments being elected all around the world - particularly the re-election of Bush in the US, and now the seeming ineffectiveness of anti-VSU protests ( ... )

tull September 28 2005, 00:52:15 UTC

Stability? Equilibrium ( ... )

littlejenmc September 29 2005, 01:39:52 UTC

You're right... I just wish that it did not have to be that way. Why does there have to be such a selfsish level of extreme suffering before we're knee-jerked into systemic change to re-balance the equilibrium? Surely we can the likely results of these actions before they take place.. and maybe prevent our own path of destruction before we've tipped the scales so far in the direction of desperately needing change that we create some kind ad-hoc solution that addresses that problem only long enough to create many more down the track (see your above list of examples ( ... )

littlejenmc September 29 2005, 02:16:03 UTC

I hear you bro...

Maybe the answer is to only talk to like-minded, disillusioned individuals like ourselves... But then the situation would never get any better...

Ah, I don't know! *hugs*

tull September 28 2005, 01:23:45 UTC

Hey Jenna, I've been thinking about seceding Jervis Bay as a socialist-king nationstate. I will be the benevolent leader, you can be the woman that breaks traitors necks with her thighs.

If everyone is living under me then they're all living equally.

littlejenmc September 29 2005, 01:22:42 UTC

Tully I love you.

tull September 29 2005, 02:24:34 UTC

aww schucks.

Ok, you can be the benevolent leader and I'll be the woman that breaks traitors necks with his thighs

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tull September 28 2005, 10:37:12 UTC

I would say that I'm much more lukewarm on the "faultless virtue" of university. I have some pretty ludicrous learning problems, which again makes me a bit biased. I do think you get exposed to ideas and ways of thinking at university that you'd be unlikely to stumble upon by yourself.

There are good habits and bad habits that one can pick up from university. The ability to think critically really is unsuprassed outside of a hardcore philosophical thinktank. A big problem that I see come out of graduates is arrogance and an inflated sense of self-importance: The onus at uni much of the time is for you to think, and more so, for you to say what you think ( ... )

littlejenmc September 29 2005, 02:10:50 UTC

Ok so you've raised a lot of stuff that I don't really have time to tease out right now, suffice to say I will do my best with the 10 mins I have and reserve the rest for a beer/coffee chat ( ... )