Damn the Man Club, Wednesday 5pm

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Canceling a club meeting on it's very first night didn't seem like a good plan. So even though Blair didn't feel up to it, he was sitting on a desk in the computer lab.

"Okay, welcome to Damn the Man Club. I think we should start out by introducing ourselves and what who we think is The Man." Blair smiled and started. "I'm Blair Sandburg and I think The Man is a person or persons in power who value the power more than anything else and use it to keep the little people down."

He waited for everyone to finish and pointed to the whiteboard behind him. "This club is going to be focusing on educating people about The Man and then trying to fight against him with what we have available. Protests, petitions, sit-in's and boycotts are just the some of the ways we can make a difference. But I want to hear what ideas you guys have or any instances where you think we should step in and do something."

[OCD up!]

Comments

Re: Introductions

[nadiathesaint]

"But when a coup occurs, it's a take-over, one without the consent of the individual in power. It happens because the person has been abusing that power, which is something that they will want to keep doing. So they aren't going to let go easily. They're going to argue, and, yes, FIGHT for what they want, just as the people who are trying to take over will. And because the two sides will be locked into struggling against each other, they will have to try to prove their power with everything that they have at their disposal, including might. But both sides build up the demonstration of their might, until both sides are using violent means, and they lose track of the people in the middle who don't want anything except to just go on with their lives, and in the end, it's dark, dirty, violent, and people get hurt."

Re: Introductions

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"There are other ways to fight that aren't physical. If neither side thought violence was an option, neither side would escalate to that." Blair shrugged. "Of course that means creating a world in which physical violence didn't exsist and I don't know that that's even possible."

Re: Introductions

[nadiathesaint]

"I doubt it. Besides, what good is that hypothetical when we have to deal with real world terms?"

Re: Introductions

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"If we don't have a dream, what are we fighting for?"

Re: Introductions

[nadiathesaint]

"We can have a dream, but it should be one based on reality and what we really can accomplish. Saying 'well, it'd be better if violence never existed' doesn't solve anything."

Re: Introductions

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"That's why we don't just say that. We try to promote it, we try to change it, we try to make the world better."

Re: Introductions

[nadiathesaint]

"But violence DOES exist, Blair. You can't just pretend that it doesn't."