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What keeps us from a revolution?
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It's simple, really. In America, as I would assume is the case everywhere
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else in the world, people would rather tolerate oppression than put their
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valuable asses on the line. Very seldom will one find an individual willing
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to die for something as "trivial" as principle nowadays. Far more important
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than justice and equality is the desire for self-preservation and
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advancement. To buck the system means to risk defeat. Risking defeat, or
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risking anything at all, means jeopardizing everthing that one has
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"achieved". Man no longer seems concerned with humanitarian issues. If they
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are, it is on an entirely abstract scale. When one's material posessions
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are called into question, it seems that everyone is willing to back down.
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People are so weak and easy to control. It's so easy to keep everybody
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happy in this country. Keep the beer, the gas, the junk food and the T.V.
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cheap and accessible, and everything's fine. So long as ample distractions
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are well-provided, would-be oppressors are given free-reign. People are so
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afraid of anything that challenges their way of life (their ideals, their
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pastimes, their prejudices and beliefs, that they will fight to protect
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their right to remain "unpolluted by outside opinions". The government no
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longer has to censor anything. The people do it for them. (take "morality
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groups" for example) Here, at college, I have an underground newspaper.
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Granted, my publication is a hyperliberal, extremeist one at best, but
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people are so infuriated by IDEAS and DRAWINGS that they threaten me
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physically on a regular basis. This is at a liberal arts college, no less.
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We don't even have to discuss political issues at all. Just the concept of
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a tolerant morality infuriates these people. I am at a loss.
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I have campaigned (with complete success) against the administration for
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censoring my paper. Now the school even covers my publication costs!
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But the ultra-conservatives on campus take the paper as a personal affront
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to them. And I fear for my physical safety. Does anyone have any
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suggestions?
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How can you teach toleration?
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How can you fight an overwhelming trend towards the petty and
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materialistic?
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-Andy Wilson
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