[matilda] Doug the man and atw

[Chris Malins]

So someone just launched into an extended criticism of 'us' in general 
for failing to take effective action and effect the people with the 
power to change things, and as a knock out punch revealed that we are no 
longer likely to have the privilege of ... her coming and painting a 
mural. Does anyone else feel like they're in some sort of Twilight zone?

I don't even want to know why painting a mural is a more profoundly 
effective and meaningful blow against capitalism and bureaucracy than 
any of the other things mentioned. Plus, bureaucracy is not a sign of 
capitalism any more than the sign of any attempt to construct communal 
order on a significantly sized group of people - I defy someone to name 
a system which doesn't have some equivalent in it. Its almost enough to 
make a person want to get a job.

"Sell out, with me oh yea, sell out, with me tonight
Record company's gonna give me lots of money
And every thing's gonna be all right"

Chris

PS. I have a music radio show 9.30pm on Wednesday night on the student 
radio webcast, www.sureradio.com. We play ambient, electronica, ebm, 
metal and whatever else is going, so if any of you creative types has a 
track which you'd like me to play to my hordes of listener (sic), let me 
know.

Amparo P Gutierrez wrote:
> Mural Making:
> 
> Among the achievements in this derelict urban splash in decay, one has 
> been forgotten: there is an art space functioning here, in order,
> 
> please send us your draft drawing as image for a proposed mural, why not?
> i was going to suggest a Graffitti sign directly on main access walls 
> and door (since a sandwich board may create trouble)
> and some Kid Acne was proposing warrior girls,
> 
> Kathleen, don't lose your sense of humour,
> 
> we appreciate you
> 
> amp
> 
> 
> Kathleen Holliday wrote:
> 
>> "This mailing list is definitely a pain in the arse sometimes. But the
>> list isn't everything that happens at Matilda - it's just somewhere
>> where the more long-winded of us thrash out our sometimes very tedious
>> arguments. /Judging what Matilda achieves by these emails is a bit like
>> measuring the output of a factory by the conversations that go on in
>> the canteen/."
>> *Beaurocrasy eh? Long winded arguments, wow you sound so Important and 
>> Super Cool.*
>> ** *The content of conversation in a factory canteen is made by it's 
>> workers. The output is produced by it's workers, they are directly 
>> related. Unless of course you think the white collars count for 
>> something.*
>> ** *"*Your remarks are a reminder that we waste too much energy on silly
>> inward-focused arguments*"*
>> *Beaurocrasy again! A symptom of capitalism.*
>> ** *"* If your political theory is in denial
>> about the basic ridiculousness of human beings*"*
>> No it isnt. I feel we all have a sacred human presence but many of us 
>> don't recognise it in others
>> ** *"*If you had a lot of power, with the same
>> attitude, it would probably make you genocidal.*"*
>> *I have enough power to change my immediate suroundings as does 
>> everyone if only they knew they did. *
>> ** *"*2. What fantastic things are you doing to change the world - except
>> for criticizing everyone else for failing to change it?*"*
>> I speak out and propose solutions, some of these are already being 
>> implemented.
>> ** *ATW*
>> "Your thinking reveals an us and you division. Why do you feel so
>> alienated? To me it seems like you are thinking of yourself as a
>> consumer and have expectations of us, the providers."
>>  
>> It isn't me that's labelling myself by belonging to a club, or 
>> organisation. I'm just a survivor who is surviving. I chose my path 
>> and I am not alienated, just extremely angry at the political, 
>> environmental and commercial mess that is in our human-collective part 
>> of the life of this beautiful planet.  It just seems to someone on the 
>> outside looking in that clowns, parties, beaurocratic meetings and 
>> coffee making is not relevant and is not taken seriously by the 200 
>> people who do have real power to change things. I can't put my 
>> acheivements on a public mailing list but I have done some and made 
>> some changes for the better and influenced the way that some people 
>> with more power than I have are doing things.
>> The best thing anyone young enough with a concience can do is to do 
>> what I said: do a politics degree and go into the heart of Mordor and 
>> chuck the bloody ring down the mountain.
>>  
>> I haven't had the time as a single mum with kids at school to come 
>> from outside Sheffield to Matilda, I was thinking of doing you all a 
>> mural as I have done a few before and am quite nifty at it but I may 
>> as well go and do one at the old folks home.
>>
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