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Re: Saturday, October 16, 2004
Once you quote the full sentence, it makes even less sense:
The fewer safety nets there are to save us, the less choice we have to be anything other than ourselves, the less choice we have besides doing what is meaningful to us. My experience has been that the safety nets enabled me to do what was meaningful to me. If you get a change to read the liner notes to Camper Van Beethoven's reissue of their early Pitch A Tent records, consider what the writers say about Santa Cruz, the California educational system, and the flowering of the Santa Cruz music scene. It matches up with what I've seen back home in Arkansaw (though our state never made the commitment to education California did). Anyway, if your safety net has just disappeared, this is a very good philosophy to have. If you're trying to preserve safety nets, not necessarily for yourself, then it's a downright disastrous point of view--it amounts to giving up.
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