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"Rainbow Gathering," like these "Deadhead,"
"Rainbow Family, "Spreadhead" types frequent.
I got lice, pinworms and Shigella dysentery from
these sociopathic slobs, many of whom never
bathe, and live in cars. (On trust fund money,
as likely as not.) At the ER, the physician said
it was a specific strain of Shigella known as the
"Rainbow Runs," peculiar to this group, and not
found elsewhere on the planet! Topping that.
Bubonic Plague (yes, the infamous Black Death)
has even been found in this crowd!
It was foolish to use absorbent cloth on the
Classic Center seats. (Instead of wipe-able vinyl.)
It's even "foolisher" to let those who despise all
norms of civilized human behavior sit in them,
endangering subsequent users. Suggestion:
Thoroughly clean the Classic Center seats (or,
better yet, re-upholster them with vinyl) and let
all such future shows be held at the county fair
grounds, by the dump, where nobody minds, and
the sun, wind and rain will sanitize things.
Gordon Lee Stelter
Athens
POLITICS IS PERSONAL
I'm a little bit frustrated with people who
think political "bipartisanship" is something we
should strive for and that politics should be kept
separate from other concerns. First, I don't think
any such thing as neutrality exists, so I think
aiming for it is futile; second, I think politics is
what gives life meaning and purpose, rather than
being a mere accessory to other concerns. And I
don't mean politics in the narrow sense of elec
toral politics in the United States, but rather pol
itics in the wider sense implied in the statement
"Everything is politics." Politics then appears to
mean a lot of different things, but I think its in
tention can be pared down to one simple phrase
and that phrase is "getting what you want."
Now you're probably thinking I'm one of those
horrible persons who professes a morality of
ends rather than means. And, to be frank, that is
what I'm saying, but let me add the caveat that
no coherent political philosophy can function
otherwise. Even "means" philosophies are really
about "ends;" means actually are ends and the
very moment we started pretending there was a
difference, politics became a game of smoke and
mirrors. But I'm getting sidetracked.
Many people respond to the statement
"Everything is politics and politics is about get
ting what you want" as if it's deeply cynical
and probably extremely selfish, too. But I think
our automatically negative reactions to phrases
like the above is in no small part a conditioned
response. We act as if people ever function dif
ferently, and we often forget the wide variety of
things people can desire.
For example, I have a prognssive vision for
the future of this country. I want a diverse and
responsible culture in which evolution occurs
freely; a political environment in which ideas
that foment the aforementioned flourish, while
reactionary, conservative ideas die out; and a
drastic and immediate reduction in carbon emis
sions (to name a few) These are the driving
forces behind my political perspective (in the
civic sense, that is).
If you examine your own political opinions,
I suspect that you'll find desires as well as all
of the messy principle/ substance motivations
that support what can appear to be glossy and
impartial procedural positions. There's nothing
wrong with this and it certainly doesn't devalue
the opinions themselves. In fact, these founda
tions humanize politics (for my argument is such
that purely procedural politics do not, in fact,
exist) and'the immediately apparent relativism of
my claims should be easily made irrelevant (pun
intended) by the (obvious) realization that op
posing opinions do not "cancel out" your own by
the mere fact of their existence. Politics is never
so simple, and it is always personal.
Michael Uhall
Athens
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