They're back, and rumor has it the standard IQ test, if there is such a thing, will soon include a choose the video that represents the safest place to live, and then they show the one with peaceful protestors with cameras and phones costing at least hundreds of dollars per year or the one with the angry people, angry men, I should say. And then the five-year-old soon to be given an intelligence label, packaged, and sent to school will choose.
Please pardon the cynicism, but that contrast was noted as well as the fact that women seem fully integrated, even in the majority of the OWS protests whereas they are completely absent from the scenes of seas of angry men oceans away.
Maybe the question is how did we arrive at this place where people can afford amazingly sophisticated electronic equipment without necessarily having a place to live?
(One woman in the OWS video reports living at Bank of America for seven months after getting evicted from an OWS encampment.)
As usual, then, a muddle.
Time to get to work, folks.
Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
Showing posts with label peaceful protestors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peaceful protestors. Show all posts
Monday, September 17, 2012
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Auggie's Revenge and Fight for Your Long Day
affordable copies
Why pay less when spending more is so easy and free? Right. In other words, if anyone would like a shipped paperback copy of Auggie...
-
I'm happy to announce that I'll be reading from " Frade Killed Ellen " or Auggie's Revenge at 3 p.m. as part of an ...
-
If you, or anyone you know, becomes burdened with the gift of an electronic reading device this holiday season, you're welcome to take a...
-
Smashwords: http://www.short-fiction-ebooks.com/_/_/571510/turquoise-truck Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/turquoise-truck/id10...
-
"[B] ut the fact that [Roberto] Arlt wrote 'badly' is what made him important. Because Arlt’s style was no style at all—an abra...
-
Debra Leigh Scott's "insightful article" on " How The American University was Killed in Five Easy Steps " flew aroun...
-
At the SEIU conference in Washington D.C. last November , one student group reported that they are fighting to make income-based repayment t...
-
"The bookshelf was an immediate giveaway — every Weatherman read Malcolm X , the poetry of Ho Chi Minh, Amical Cabral , and Mari Sandoz...
-
Reading Little White Duck: A Childhood in China led me to Wuhan, China, a large sprawling city dissected by a huge river that Chairman Mao ...
-
Strictly for the purposes of personal promotion, I'm writing an even slimmer volume on why people should read Benito Cereno and Billy B...
-
Even more quickly than Joe Wilson could nab $200,000 for his near-blasphemous yelp in the halls of power, Allen Iverson inked for 3.1 millio...