Common Stratigraphies

Steelhead sitka at teleport.com
Wed Mar 5 16:13:46 CST 1997


Diana does a smashing job until the tail-end of her post:

>But until people stop pretending that growing
>up in racially and sexually stratified cultures hasn't affected them in
>the least, I fear we cannot.

But there she goes again.

Always leaving out the stratigraphy of class.

Only 5 percent of the people control about 90 percent of the world's
wealth. This condition should be a great organizing principle--if only we
didn't allow Them to excite the racial, sexual, and cultural divides
between "us."

Black, white, gay, goy, trans, ickle durl, whatever...

Nearly all of us have been passed over, fucked up, exploited, shown daily
reminders of impending Death and left to the grueling life of glozing
neuters.

Casually yours,


/s/
Steely





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