I read the paper or watch the news once in a while more often than not I try and balance my intake of corporate and activist media in hopes that personal truths will emerge somewhere in between. I'm on the eff's mailing list, I am a conciencous objector because among other things Nonviolence has in my opinion done more good than most like to admit and created real and permanent change, I have been known to demonstrate from time to time, and for better or worse I am registered as an unaffiliated voter. I'm union and I would Boycott if the need arose. I find myself preforming actions of Civil and social disobedience in everday life but never have during a demonstration. Culture jamming is a passion for me that unfortunately i have never done much of. I guess I am more inclined tward artistic appropriation like that of Negativland, the erisian movement, the church of the subgenus, Guerrilla communication, and Hacktivism. Direct action is tricky in my book I think in most cases it just pisses people off and leads to temporary fix's instead of changes in thought or awareness. Still if used in the right way it is more directly effective and apparent than simple protest which can often be disregarded in my opinion. Economic activism comes off as more of a myth to me. i think if i was an accountant and/or marketing person for a targeted economic force i could subvert any attempt of economic activism thru creativity. On a grander scale Divestment has proved a valuable form of activism. Lobbying on the other hand seems to me has become synonymous with the idea that if you have enough money or resources you can do anything and thus corruption. Voluntary simplicity while good in theory seems more like living your life in a dream so it seems a dead end street to me currently still I admire those who have achieved that level of personal autonomy. In the end perhaps I'm still too stuck in the quagmire of my Gen-X leaning.
"it is not merely the idealism of the 1960s that Generation Xers reject, but a deeper cynicism of the fact that such "idealism", inevitably doomed in its gratuitous naïveté."
Passion I have faith drive and determination seem so hard to come by.

Off The Wall, June 7, 2005 from the album "^a" by Emmanuel Goldstein
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Burn from the album "Natural Born Killers Soundtrac" by Nine Inch Nails