Sandwichman wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sure. where's the mass movement? > > That's the right question to ask. It's the same question I asked 13 > ago. A few other questions follow: > > "If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for > myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?"
As Jim pointed out a couple weeks ago, mass movements in many ways _just haoppen_; moreover, hey are seldome if ever predictable. There's a book I have never read but the title is wonderful: They Should Have Sereved that Cup of Coffee_. But even the students who sat at that counter getting beat up and hassled day after day did not really have any idea whatever of the great surge of humanity they were helping to trigger. Ditto Rosa Parks and the Montgomery NAACP when they set off the bus-strike. So it seems to me (while I agree with the questions above that the immediate questions concern actions in a period when there is no knowing whether or not those actions will be of significance. How do we 'prepare' for or move towards a mass movement that we cannot predict the coming of? Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
