Spinfilter: November 2012

Monday, November 12, 2012

New Beginnings

Dry your eyes my little friend, jubilation in the land. The recent election has inspired me to to start writing about the ridiculous state we as a country find ourselves in. The next few years are going to be a wild ride...

"When did radical become a term of disapproval? If you have a thorn bush and you'd rather have an apple tree, the cosmetic approach is to get some string and tie a bunch of ripe apples to the thorn bush, so it looks like an apple tree.

Of course, a week later all the rotted apples will fall off. But that only shows that you haven't hired enough trained specialists, and given them a large enough budget, to keep hanging apples on the thorn bush.

Today, such a scheme would be described as 'sensible moderate reform, by working withing the existing system.'

If I propose to simply dig up the thorn bush by the roots, throw it away and plant a real apple tree where it stood, that is judged radical. It's an 'unrealistic, childish, and perhaps even mentally aberrant refusal to acknowledge reality and work within the existing system.'"

- Vin Suprynowicz, Send in the Waco Killers, Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998