Praxis
I spend a fair bit of time reading about the war. You wouldn’t know it from CavLec, because reading about the war is a far cry from having anything useful or coherent to say about it. More than enough useless incoherence around, no?
Mostly my reading is centered around a question that Burningbird asked a little bit ago: What do I do? What do I do now? And what do I do later so that this does not happen again?
A lot of what I see reads very much like Jonathon:
To put it bluntly, we?re fucked.
Unless the anti-war/peace movement can come up with something more sophisticated and useful than red-daubed faces, drumming, banal chants, puerile street theater, trite placards, histrionics, self-indulgent moralizing, and wishful thinking.
Ah. Well, that pretty much leaves me out, ignorant and impotent fool that I am. And since Jonathon presents no useful alternatives, I—do what? Despair, I guess. If someone were to make a case for a given action as being more useful than what I’ve done, I’d do it. I’ve read cases for public demonstration, and I’ve demonstrated publicly. I’ve read cases for contacting elected officials, and I’ve done that.
So. Despair. I can do that, sure. I’ve been very close to it for some time now.
Was that the intent, Jonathon?