Reply #117: Wishful thinking on your friend's part [View All]

[Old sixties guy]

because in no way is the working class I am a part of even slightly thinking about"armed revolt"The ARE very concerned about paying the huge mortgage on their new Bay Area home in the burbs and filling up that SUV with gas!
When I was in college I hung out with a lot of SDS people who extolled the working class as the vanguard of the revolution.Ya know what?I am IN that working class while the vast majority of them went into academia or the professions and making quite a bit more money than working class me.
No regrets,really.I have made a great diverse group of friends from all over the world.Most of my former cohorts live in the exclusive areas they used to condemn as"white racist"
Life to me has three main components-irony,alienation and absurdity.With special emphasis on absurdity!