Very good.
But tell me, friend, do you have the moral strength to take a billy-club in the head or stomach for your beliefs? If you knew that it would make no difference until thirty years after you were just a memory, would you continue? Are you willing, like Che Guevara, to become a hunted individual? Are you willing to sacrifice all your comforts and associations for the cause? THIS is what I am trying to establish.Secondly, so I mentioned Hitler. You are like most people. They never read beyond the word Hitler. They think, "Oh, now that he has mentioned Hitler, I can attack him and be righteous." Wrong. Did you not see what I was saying? I was making the point that Hitler was a vegetarian. Meaning that ANYONE can swear off meat and so-called "carnivorous values" and still be a scumbag. A certain rebel who lived in Judea 2000 years ago said, "It is not what goes into a person's mouth that makes them impure. It is what is inside them." And he wasn't talking about meat-eating. Investigate other view-points, friend. If you are going to be a rebel, be DAMN sure you understand the opposition, and I don't mean what you think the opposition stands for, but REALLY look.
Communism didn't take root in Russia because Karl Marx said, "Capitalists are mean and we have to protest them because it's wrong." He understood the philosophical underpinnings of the society and civilization he was critiquing. I am saying that what you are attacking is just one sliver of the issue. It is a symptom, and your protesting just attacks a symptom. Have you never heard of the Hydra? Cut off one head, and another head grows out. It was only by striking the beast through the heart that Hercules triumphed.
Until you people sit down and do some actual intellectual leg work in trying to understand the heart of it all, putting aside your hysteria and prejudice (and if you think a protestor can't be prejudiced we are going to have a problem), until you examine these things and arm yourself with the facts, no one is going to take you seriously.
If you want to boil this down even further, then remember this:
Pattern yourselves after Gandhi instead of John Lennon, and you might get somewhere.
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