|
Comment on this article |
View comments |
Email this Article
|
|
Prison gang analogy to Left struggle |
Current rating: 0 |
by th0rn
(No verified email address) |
22 Jul 2006
|
|
(Copied from http://www.dailykos.com, author "NewDirection". I thought this was a fascinating and humorous way of looking at the struggle the Left faces against seemingly insurmountable odds.Thought it would only be about self-defense, but it's also about "winning" and organization and tactics) |
|
This Is Prison: How Not To Get Raped Or Shanked
by NewDirection
This is somewhat opposite from the methods that sometimes seem to be most prominently advocated here; namely attacking the figures of authority while staying above the fray on the messy individual issues...
Well I'm a pretty calm and dispassionate fellow I think. But just suppose that we really are headed for "World War Three." A BS WW3. That would be a state of imprisonment essentially for progressives. I'm not talking nonsense about a state of actual physical imprisonment because of course, no P.A.T.R.I.O.T.ic citizen concerns one's self with such matters. No, I'm talking exclusively about ideological imprisonment.
...
...
Now let's get to the heart of the matter: Ganging up.
See, we are different. Is this like being a minority ethnic group? To a point, yes. And past a certain point, yes. But in the middle the analogy breaks down. I'll explain: See, upon casual contact the general population views us with some caution. But as soon as they see we're decent, they like us and we are vanilla. However, when the chips are down, we're back to being starkly different and not their brothers. Actually... That's exactly like an ethnic experience in my opinion, because of course there are some people, and hard-and-fast organizations here, who will have nothing whatsoever but antagonism for us.
Some of those other associations are nuts, scary as hell, having made up their association based not on an actual ethnicity they couldn't change, or some sort of occupational specialty. No, those guys like the Red Foxes... They ganged up based on ideology.... Brrrr. Oh, heh, wait... That's what we have to do too. But of course they fancy themselves a lot like the Warden, and there are rumors of cooperation amongst them. Nevertheless the Red Foxes claim to hate the prison authority in a general way and the degenerate state of the population to boot. They love being in prison. It doesn't matter that their lives suck; they feel like they are in charge. They revel in the current state of affairs. And guess what? They aren't idiots. Yikes.
Now let's take a long look, and a second and third one, at those guys and how happy they are. Do they get extra concessions? Are their cells really any bigger or more comfortable? No. But the space in their heads is. Of course they have the countervailing affliction of being torn up by hate all the time. We shouldn't try to be just like them. But we shouldn't [sic - should] definitely pay attention to them, and not just because they want to shank us and rape us.
...
...
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/21/161014/700 |
See also:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/21/161014/700
|
This work is in the public domain |
|
Re: Prison gang analogy to Left struggle |
by th0rn
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
22 Jul 2006
|
|
More deep reading from a follow-up entry after the above: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/21/45826/8326
I Can Think Of Elephants
by antifa |
