Re: RAT Hello Seattle, i must be going...

["David Sinclair" <mal_occhio@hotmail.com>]

nobody here is "innocent"... promoters, punks, wto participants. the point 
being made here is that the garden-variety-punks are reacting on an 
instinctual level -- whether they're social revolutionaries or petty 
oppertunists. the point being that they both (and the other factions 
included) take out their agressions against the same symbols: people in 
seats of power, cops, corporate stores/symbols...

the piont being that, for some reason, seattle has brought together members 
of the left (and some on the right), as well as those who have no political 
consciousness or agendas. they do not express themsleves in ways we consider 
"outlets" for expression... there is no redirection of thier anger: its all 
being taken out directly.

the communards of paris 1793 (as well as thier "children" in paris 1968) 
were not all whatever history thinks they were ("socialists", situationists, 
maoists, etc.) what they had in common though, and what they share with the 
general "message" from seattle (which has historically been the home of a 
large conscious anarchist population
which includes the wobblies) is that they are opposed to the system of 
sameness and separation that the wto represents in its highest form.

call it class war, call it an instinctual rejection of oppressive social and 
mental institutions, hell, you can even call it petty vandalism and mindless 
destruction, but the conditions of this outburst is the same as the 
conditions of other outbursts. the wto (and the intellectual foundations 
behind it) helps to create and perpetuate the myths of scaricty, progress, 
and equal oppertunity, while the corporate sector of society reaps the 
benefits of exploition, discliplined consumer markets, and manufactured 
political consciousness.

the robotic voice cired: "concerned (but powerless)/an empowered and 
informed member of society" -- radiohead. ok computer.

these sentiments are unspoken. just becuase somebody is loafer, a dirty 
punk, or a stupid kid doesn't mean they have no perception of the world 
around them.

and it also doesn't mean that cops aren't terriorists who dress for success 
just because you don't see it that way.

under the sidewalk, the beach!

david.

From: MMA <Diogenes_@compuserve.com>
>Reply-To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>To: "INTERNET:rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com" <rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com>
>Subject: Re: RAT Hello Seattle, i must be going...
>Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:03:06 -0500
>
>to say nothing of the lessons of paris of 1793
>
>"El Sínico"

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