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Let a Thousand Organizations Sprout

In Reply to: I agree with Colonel Mustard Greens posted by Mike on August 05, 1998 at 09:51:16:

About "Citizens for Mustard Greens" -- it was my response to the request in McSpotlight's form that I could put down an "Org" next to my "Name" and "Country." Mustard greens are a fast-growing plant that produces lots of vitamin-rich food -- the perfect symbol for an "organization" supporting autonomous food-growing communalism in the heteronomous "I've got mine Jack" consumer paradise that is southern California.

Floyd seems to get the idea, with "United Shakes of McMerica" etc. Feel free to make up your own organizational names, try them out on your friends, see what works and doesn't work. Nothing could be worse than "United Revolutionary Front" or "People for Truth, Justice and the American Way" or "Vanguardists for Stodgy Leninism" or anything that is going to bring to people the vision that organization is imposed on them, rather than the counter-vision that organization is something they create. People have had enough organization imposed on them through the mandatory schooling processes they have all had to endure when they were young. It's time they learned to how to make satisfying non-conformist choices.

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• Will this do? Mike Campaign for Cruelty-Free Bondage Gear August 07 1998 (0)