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Davis Fleetwood’s Student Challenge

By Manila Ryce
Published Saturday, October 20th, 2007, 2:52 am
Filed under: Society/Culture: Civil Unrest, Videos: Political, Society/Culture: Art, Society/Culture, Videos, US Politics

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Our friend Davis Fleetwood has a challenge for the students of America. This is a topic near and dear to my heart as well since I’ve personally been more than frustrated on several occasions in urging my peers, both in college and out, to actually take some sort of action with me. If you talk to people my age and younger, it’s clear that we do care about what’s going on. So why the paralyzing fog spread across high schools and college campuses? The main reason for this general inaction is that we don’t think anything we do will make a difference. Sadly, this is not a conclusion we’ve arrived at on our own through failed trials of civil disobedience or general unrest. Rather, this dominant sentiment of powerlessness is something we’ve been indoctrinated with through the corporate media. It’s no coincidence that those generations which seem most politically apathetic are also those who’ve spent most of their childhood in front of the television.

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2 Responses to “Davis Fleetwood’s Student Challenge”

  1. Does Davis’ hermit cave remind anyone else of being inside a skull?

    Anyway, if this is a motivation speech, well good luck bro.
    The potential for student protest is not as your armchair psychoanalysis suggests .
    And its also not because they aren’t wearing peace patches on their sleeves.

    The REAL issue that makes this an ’60s apples and ’00s oranges kind of
    thing is the lack of catalyst or DRAFT.

    At the risk of sounding like a Marxist, parasites don’t want to kill their hosts,
    rather to lull them to sleep slowly, feeding while sapping strength.

    I believe Dem. Senator Conyers knew this when he (rather cynically or not) suggested
    activating the selective service.

    If realized, it would undermine the NeoCon’s quiet coup of slowly privatizing our armies and
    government and neglecting the development of a powerful democracy. This of course leap-frogs
    that pesky constitution which they so eagerly pay lip service to every 2 to 4 years.

    The tinder is still dry and the frog hasn’t boiled- yet.

    Jojo Mojo
    10/20/07 at 9:46 am

  2. I’m not the typical freshman student, at 26 and ex-military, I stand out like a sore thumb. I think the big reason that many students do not protest or try to rock the boat is the huge monetary commitment their parents must make just to get them there. All a campus has to do is threaten to kick a kid out and their folks are up in arms. I dropped out of the Solidarity Group on my campus since they wouldn’t do a damn thing about the war or even the heavy recruiting that the military-industrial complex does here, seriously Northrup Grummen is here every week. No one wants to lose their security deposits I guess. Its pathetic.

    Diablo
    10/20/07 at 4:36 pm

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