You should know I will leave this country. I refuse to spend my life as a sheeple in a banana republic extolling a crony version of “economic freedom” and individual self-realization. Let me tell you both that despite fear-anxiety created by certain news stories, I continue to push forward.
A wise girl once told me Dylan Thomas’s poem:
Rage rage against the dying of the light. Until the day I die, I will never let the neo-fascists in spirit and matter claim me as their victim.
Incidentlly, I have thought of Mike’s action as honorable, but I cannot replicate it myself. My current college is a state funded one. And I won’t give the police statists another reason to consign me to the jail cell.
]]>As long as you’re in America, I very much don’t recommend it. Please don’t make yourself a target for a gesture whose seriousness few will understand or appreciate.
Citixenship is like white privilege. One hardly notices it, but without it suddenly the world is filled with walls which were previously invisible- and those barriers can easily cost you your future or your freedom. And this is especially true for American citizenship- a prize of privilege which millions of people sacrifice large portions of their lives to obtain. I really, really think that you don’t want to do this. And believe me, I understand the need for a radical gesture that proves to oneself and the world that one’s alienation and rejection of an irrational society is serious. But it can get very cold out there.
I consider Gogulski’s gesture to be extremely honourable and I respect it a great deal, but please don’t martyr yourself. America just isn’t that kind of place any longer.
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]]>Our Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses most gracious appreciation for your kind offer. Unfortunately, the Commercial Republic of Aster is currently under contract as a client state to Her Imperial Majesty, Scats, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed-Even-Though-She Declines-To-Catch-The-Mouse-In-My-Room. We convey our deepest regrets.
P.S., I’ve dropped the ‘Lady’. Classist. Please just ‘Aster’.
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