TOO reBEel or naught to reBEel ?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Apr 10, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Ray Easton wrote:

> I don't believe this.  I was an SDS activist for a time.  Anti-war  
> demonstrations *were* thrilling.  But it was not my experience that  
> they were any more thrilling for me they were for the pot heads  
> beside me who were only "looking ahead to the next toke or the next  
> piece of ass".

Not to mention all those dedicated activists who were Also looking for  
"the next toke or the next piece of ass", as I have known quite a few  
of those. Separating out "real" radicals from "phony" radicals is a  
diversion—the kind of distraction that the Brock Vonds  of the world  
[and rebels who have been successfully programmed to default to their  
inner fascist]  use to undermine group cohesion. There is something  
really radical in sexual liberation, there is something really radical  
in flaunting that next toke. At least in the real world. One of those  
"real radicals" I got to know from anti-nuclear actions in the early  
80's has set up one of those "compassionate care" shops in Oaksterdam.  
Tell me that's not radical.

>  . . . I have trouble distinguishing what is and what is not  
> intended as commentary on Vineland.

. . . as it all gets mixed up with our own personal recollections and  
judgements on sixties activism.

The difference is that Vineland is a made for TV movie. Mind you, our  
rememberances are filtered through the expectations of made for TV  
movies. In Vineland, there is a happy ending. In the real word—not so  
much.