[Peace-discuss] Fractious sheep?

[C. G. Estabrook]

The metaphor is appropriate to the season, though:

	"We had all gone astray like sheep,
	each taking his own way,
	and Yahweh brought the acts of rebellion
	of all of us to bear on him" [Isaiah 53:6].

As to being a revolutionary, I'm reminded of the concluding lines of Tom
Stoppard's brilliant play Travesties, from more than 30 years ago:

"Great days ... Zurich during the war. Refugees, spies, exiles,
painters, poets, writers, radicals of all kinds. I knew them all. Used
to argue far into the night ... at the Odeon, the Terrasse ... I learned
three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly,
you're either a revolutionary or you're not, and if you're not you might
as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can't be an
artist, you might as well be a revolutionary...
I forget the third thing."

--CGE (who's trying to remember the third thing)


Karen Medina wrote:
>> "Anyone who thinks they have a seat at the table will never be a 
>> revolutionary or anything worse than a mildly fractious sheep", 
>> says Chuck.
> 
> I am a peace activist, and the reasons I am a peace activist are the 
> very things that make me not a revolutionary.
> 
> Revolution can end up with the same situations just under different 
> leadership (very much like Orwell's Animal Farm).
> 
> Some really great changes have come from people who never led a 
> revolution -- they were just trying to get a few things straightened 
> out, not to take over. By not being revolutionaries, they set 
> humanity on a better track.
> 
> Specifically looking at the United States, a revolution now would 
> lead to another one in a few years. There are enough 
> pro-military-industrial-complex people out there that changing the 
> power would just put those pmic people in a place where they can 
> fester and incubate.
> 
> -karen medina
> 
> 
> 
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