Re: Re: The Gospels

Hail, hail Abby Hoffman, American muck-raker, who, after being sentenced,
was asked about his activities that led to his incarceration. He responded
"I don't care about that shit right now. Right now I'm focusing on
prisoners' rights." Always living in the moment, he was.
tina

>From: "James J. Rovira" <jrovira@drew.edu>
>Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>Subject: Re: Re: The Gospels
>Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:24:54 -0400
>
>I guess it's not so much a matter of conscious political alliance, but
>simply that being present in the world aligns your interests with some
>people and against others -- hence, you're a political being. This
>alignment of interests impacts on our opinions and attitudes. So your
>interests and experiences have disinclined you to have a negative opinion
>of Bush (or at least his foreign policy), for example, and disinclined you
>against strong alignments with a party (of whatever sort -- political,
>intellectual, religious), which is a political attitude in itself. I would
>say it's reflective of the fact that the current system serves you well. I
>suspect if you perceived yourself as getting screwed over in significant
>ways by your goverment you'd become, suddenly, very interested in politics.
> Being apolitical may just be a sign of conservatism or satisfaction
>(being satisfied enough, if not completely satisfied) with the status quo,
>in your case, at least.
>
>Jim
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Scottie Bowman" <rbowman@indigo.ie>
>To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
>Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:09:50 +0100
>Subject: Re: The Gospels
>
>
> '... every belief or position can be defined in terms
> of a political alliance of some sort ...'
>
> It's my impression most people on the list would
> subscribe - if only tacitly - to this view.
>
> Yet I'm genuinely bewildered what is meant.
> I presume this only highlights my naiveté in regarding
> myself as 'apolitical'.
>
> I take it 'politicisation' is a much more pervasive process
> than I'd guessed. How will I recognise it? Someone like me
> who, consciously as least, finds it impossible to offer happy
> allegiance to any system of belief, be it Christianity, Psychoanalysis
> or even the tenets of the Flat Earth Society.
>
> The best I can offer is a kind of maudlin affection for
> my family & such friends as can still bear my presence.
>
> Scottie B
>
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