Yes,i have the same experience.Although not the feeling of giving the game
over to them,just because its the swing to the right.If you listen well what
they(gamemasters?(rulers,or whatever you want to call them)) say you can
hear that they don't know it all.Which is the chance for subversion.And
people follow the herd,'cause they never learn to think far,for
themselves.As it says in the quoted song.
You can't use what you don't know.
But,thanks for something more to earth,than usual.


T.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject: [CHOMSKY] and the game rages on


> I have really enjoyed the political discourses on this group. I am not
> surprised by any of it but I also don't believe all of it either. A wise
man
> once told me that the political pendulum never stops. We will swing to the
> right and then back to the left. This is a very simplistic view of the
> situation, but I am a simple person. I guess it is time for us to swing
back
> to the right, but let us never become silent.
>
> I see men and women of all races and nationalities playing games.
> Capitalists (gamemasters) know we are easily duped by Madison Avenue types
> and they take advantage of us every chance they get. John Lennon said it
> best in his song A Working Class Hero:
>
> As soon as you're born they make you feel small
> By giving you no time instead of it all
> Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
> A working class hero is something to be
> A working class hero is something to be
>
> They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
> They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
> Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
> A working class hero is something to be
> A working class hero is something to be
>
> When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
> Then they expect you to pick a career
> When you can't really function you're so full of fear
> A working class hero is something to be
> A working class hero is something to be
>
> Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
> And you think you're so clever and classless and free
> But you're still f**king peasants as far as I can see
> A working class hero is something to be
> A working class hero is something to be
>
> There's room at the top they are telling you still
> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill
> A working class hero is something to be
> A working class hero is something to be
>
> If you want to be a hero well just follow me
> If you want to be a hero well just follow me
>
> The rule makers know this and they make every effort to distract us from
> what they are really doing to the planet. Hoarding natural resources and
> passing laws to protect land ownership rights has been going on for
> centuries and is not exclusive to the United States. Call them
Republicans,
> Democrats or anything else for that matter, it makes no difference.
Someone
> will always be in control. Overall people are as easily led by their
> emotions and they will follow the herd rather than stand up for what is
> right.
>
> If you want everyone else to follow your lead and you somehow amass enough
> people behind you to be a threat to the game, they will surely kill you.
If
> you fashion
> yourself to be some kind of harbinger of the truth then step up to the
> cross, for they will crucify you for disturbing their game.
>
> Jennifer Nelson
>
> "Joy is not in things, it is in us"