Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 35. No. 12. 7 June 1972
Money fucked
Money fucked
Sir,
I couldn't help but feel a little sad while reading the May 31st issue of Salient. While agreeing in principle with the Labour Club's efforts at confronting the PBEC delegates (and I take it this is your position also), I was disturbed at turning to page six to read that Wilberfoss and Company were asking me and my fellows to help them accumulate a lot of money. I was particularly touched by the phrase "adjusting your career to fit your chosen life-style".
Now surely Mr Wilberfoss & Company are the very people the demonstrators were thumbing their noses at. My point being that Mr Wilberfoss and his ilk are the people with the money and therefore the power in our society. Where does this leave the editor of Salient? Castrated. (Revelling in the hypocrisy — Ed.) While I appreciate the irony that Mr Wilberfoss's money (paying for the ad) is being used to tell him he is a prick, nothing will change. New Zealand is far removed from revolution and the working class are now the last bastion of the status quo. Any change in our society will have its existence solely in the minds of men. I have to agree with Eric Blair (alias George Orwell) who said that revolution is self defeating (see Revolution, The Russian.)
Tony King.
P.S. I feel there is a glimmer of hope in the numbers of people setting up communes and by passing "the system". Nevertheless the establishments potential for coercion remains infinite.