Going Against The Grain

It would appear that some of my comments recently have upset the Puketitri Playboy. Why else would rationale desert his ... arguments, (for want of a better word) with a result that is even more haphazard than John Henderson.

In the first place, the University does not teach that to question and to criticize is to become disillusioned, that is a product of SRC. Whose 'status quo' Mr. Paul D. Swain is talking about in his letter, is something only he can explain. But if it is his, I can assure him there is no security in it for me.

Secondly, the principle 'if you're not for it, you're against it' is that propounded by Mr. Tony Ward and Pat Martin (with regard to whether or not SRC should support the PRG) I applied it merely to point out its idiocy. It certainly is not a rational argument, it certainly is not a 'Right-Wing' principle (unless Messers. Ward and Martin call themselves right wing, in which case there would be a large swing on my part), and it should not be used at SRC to bully people into supporting something they do not.

His comment that the breweries make a profit each year seems rather irrelevant to whether or not he agrees with me. The Catholic Church makes an even bigger profit than the Breweries, but that too is irrelevant. (Though conveniently ignored by the NCL). Mr. Swain claims that 'the left have won by default and consequently SRC's are boring. True, they are boring, but in fact, the left Lost by default. He makes several condescending comments about 'come on stand up and give us a bit of opposition'. Something like 'Stand up Nigger, we want to kick ya in the balls again,' Well just watch out, some Niggers kick back.

Most 'left wingers' seem to have a preoccupation with revolution. They seem to think that one day they'll raise up the red flag and everyone will rally round, and united as one, they will storm the bastions of everything that is evil (i.e. Right). This myth is something which perpetrates the University and more particularly SRC, from top to bottom. If this 'Revolution' is ever to take place here, it will be as a reaction against the left, not with it. Students are getting sicker and sicker of hearing the same liberal bullshit at SRC, spouted by the same liberal bullshitters.

'What are you going to do about it?', I hear you cry already. 'Come on take a stand.' Lets look and see the stands that have been taken so far. The famous Feslier drinking-horn motion. As Kevin Wright said 'people (Joe Average-Student) are prepapred to act when Repressive millions not within their interests are put forward.' A minor triumph. David Newton said exactly what he thought about the political profiteering at SRC. A few heads nodded, a few listened, wondering who he was talking about ('not us' thinks the liberal-left.) And to show there was genuine concern for what he had said, he was presented with a chocolate fish.

If you think for a moment you have student support, you're wrong. If you think for a moment that you can win that support you're wrong. If you think that anyone is going to stick his or her neck out to give you the 'soul' pleasure of chopping it off you're wrong. And if you think things are going to stay this way for very much longer, you're even wronger.