Northern Exposure
The "Alaskan Women Reject Palin" rally marched through Anchorage carrying signs with a variety of charismatic slogans: "Hockey Mama for Obama," "Bush in a Skirt," "The Alaska Disasta," and "God's Will is not a Foreign Policy." With a population of roughly 800,000 in Alaska, pulling together 1,400+ for a politically charged rally is no small task. As one man put it on his local Anchorage radio station, "It's hard enough to get 25 people together in Alaska, let alone 1400!"
However, on the historic day in Alaska, not one television station showed up to cover the rally.
As Palin has described herself as the local champion of the "simple" Alaskan people throughout her early VP speeches, it should be noticed that a small group of women meeting over coffee in downtown Anchorage organized the largest political demonstration in their state's history, a rally several times larger than Palin's local rally that gained national media coverage!
- 9-22-08
- Adam Elenbaas's blog
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If only a
vote of "No Confidence" in Big Media meant an ufckin thing.
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.
-Albert Camus
Mind Or Flesh?
A revolt of the mind or a revolt of the flesh? In the situation that we experienced in this article it seems that the only revolt needed is one of the flesh, the need to get the facts heard by a larger audience. What is the fruit that you see this absurdity bearing?
-Kapow
Hey Kapow, I want to talk
Hey Kapow,
I want to talk about something new. Not something old. So tell me something new. You know?
That's generally how I feel about online "debates." It's like...usually it feels, to me, like playing in my own poop.
People criticizing other people.
Not a lot of love.
And I miss love as soon as its gone. I miss it.
So I say let's ask your question another way. What fruit don't you see this demonstration bearing? More specifically, what do you see yourself doing to bear the kind of fruit you desire? And why is what you're doing "better" than this public demonstration?
Talk to me about it from your heart. Blast one out of the park with love and compassion and it'll inspire me and evolve my mind in the way you talk about!!!
love,
Adam Elenbaas
RUN!
Hey Kapow,
What ever happened to a revolt of the "larger audience" you referred to? Many of our minds have been in revolt against the organs that be long before this trollop was tactically chosen. Our flesh has little desire for revolt, wallowing in complacency. But my flesh I think is sick of being in this (campaign) office throughout the Sun's act every day, my sinew struggling to convince my mind each night to hit the weights, and ceding only when my muscle reminds him that 'The Daily Show' will be on in the gym. Like those playful pundits, sometimes you have to stick with the absurdity, "bear it out, even to the edge of doom." Monsieur Elenbaas, always a pleasure reading your posts, and I, Monsieur Camus, and Ridikulus Nikulus are in your debt for expanding the perimeter of our discussion.
*launch sequence initiated*
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him a spinal cord would suffice. - Albert Einstein