I think maybe you've clarified for me why being anti-war in the U.S. feels so futile. I actually went to the big march on Washington, because it's somehow affirming to be around a bunch of other people who just aren't into the whole project. But I found myself wondering if anyone was really convinced that marches do anything. We all know the drill at this point: you go, you walk around, maybe you yell at some protestors of the protest or engage in a few awful three word chants, you wonder what the Parks Service will report the number as, and then you remember that whether it's 10,000 or 10,000,000 nobody will care except for the people who were there.
I remain kind of unconvinced about the merit of the argument she's using that I understand to say "the large party [in the U.S.] that contains some anti-war sentiment in our currently unambiguously two party system is not at present sufficiently anti-war, so screw them." At least that's what my bleary-eyed morning read through her letters got me, that her reason for "resigning" is either that or a personal sense of pique at her treatment, which is probably 1) justified and 2) something anyone could have foreseen, and makes her look a little like a celebrity complaining about paparazzi.
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Date: 2007-05-29 08:00 pm (UTC)I remain kind of unconvinced about the merit of the argument she's using that I understand to say "the large party [in the U.S.] that contains some anti-war sentiment in our currently unambiguously two party system is not at present sufficiently anti-war, so screw them." At least that's what my bleary-eyed morning read through her letters got me, that her reason for "resigning" is either that or a personal sense of pique at her treatment, which is probably 1) justified and 2) something anyone could have foreseen, and makes her look a little like a celebrity complaining about paparazzi.