Column: Political apathy plagues Hamline
Leigh Meryhew
Issue date: 2/9/10 Section: Opinion
Perhaps we don't necessarily have the best role models of radical revolution either. Especially when from time to time "visitors" come into our classrooms and talk about obtaining successful careers, how to better market ourselves to global capitalism and how to survive in the "real" world.
What they are really trying to tell us is that we inevitably are going to have to sell our body and souls to the rich white man and if it ever gets us down, we can either forget about it or off ourselves because there isn't the option to change it.
Unlike what some professors, advisors and job recruiters might want us to believe, the world of political apathy (which also includes that completely inept two-party system) and capital interest will only end in corruption and oppression.
These are the moments when we should be free, rioting in the streets, shutting down student services because we don't want to pay thousands of dollars in tuition every year, or helping to unionize the janitorial staff.
Yet here we stand, with a campus conservatives group and student democrats bickering over which wing-nut electoral candidate gets pushed onto the pedestal next.
We need to seriously enact insurrectionary therapy into the Hamline Plan next year.
"I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. 'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!' 'Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love
What they are really trying to tell us is that we inevitably are going to have to sell our body and souls to the rich white man and if it ever gets us down, we can either forget about it or off ourselves because there isn't the option to change it.
Unlike what some professors, advisors and job recruiters might want us to believe, the world of political apathy (which also includes that completely inept two-party system) and capital interest will only end in corruption and oppression.
These are the moments when we should be free, rioting in the streets, shutting down student services because we don't want to pay thousands of dollars in tuition every year, or helping to unionize the janitorial staff.
Yet here we stand, with a campus conservatives group and student democrats bickering over which wing-nut electoral candidate gets pushed onto the pedestal next.
We need to seriously enact insurrectionary therapy into the Hamline Plan next year.
"I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. 'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!' 'Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love
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