Yes, right!
but I tend to think that cultural elitism flows into protest, too!
David Crouch
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:07:53 +0000 David Wood <[log in to unmask]>
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> I agree with David Crouch that there is a danger of alienating people by
> engaging in political (or other) activity which occupies 'public' space. I
> also agree that there is much to be said for 'quiet' approaches like his
> community gardening (or in my case, helping to run a Credit Union). These
> things are not incompatible with more overt protest though. Many people
> have different hats they wear at different times, and activists often go
> through phases of favouring community-based action, electoral politics, big
> protest, acts of criminal damage, or other tactics to different degrees. I
> suppose its all part of the complexity and contradication of trying to work
> out how to live ethically and promote positive change in a society which in
> general regards ethics as a poor relation of economics, and uncontrolled
> change as subversion. The only things I would never advocate are doing
> physical harm to living beings or doing nothing!
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> David.
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