I have not yet been able to find the words, outside of one: How?
How did this happen?
How did we let republican owned companies develop paperless voting machines?
How did the American People get so duped into actually thinking GW would be good for them?
And How do I deal with being in a minority of conscientious people amongst a majority of ignorance, hate, and stupidity?
And How do we make it through this?
How do I ever feel that I'm doing enough to fight this? How do I reconcile the fact that I'm at work today, instead of fighting with pigs on the streets of DC? So far, I've realized this. Bloody revolution, a take over, political overthrow, those are glorious, tangible changes -- imaginable and practical. Yet impermanent. See how well the overthrow of Saddam's regime is going, even though, ostensibly, the people ought to feel more free -- if you don't count the whole being occupied by an invading menacing army and having chaos spiral out of control making a once functioning country into a home of lawlessness, hate, desperation, and general insanity. The truer revolution, the one with lasting power, is the more difficult to pull off one. One which is intangible in so many ways, and slow to materialize. The revolution of the mind.
And you can enforce your ideals and laws at gunpoint if you have to, but you cannot force a change of mind. One has to come to that on one's own. You can nurture an environment where this is possible, but you can't make it so. So, as I sit here, finishing graphics for a video about foster parenting, I realize this: being on the streets, doing direct action, this is worth a lot, our numbers cannot be ignored if we continue to turn up the heat. It is loud, and sooner or later, will be so loud that people will hear, even over the din of the propaganda machine. But continuing to work at opening people's minds, this is what will ensure that people are receptive to the noise we make on the streets.
"if you pissed off, then get yo fists up!" -- me, 2004
