Letter Never SentTell me when to go.

why join the military? duuh!!!!
for the fantastic benefits- security, low work load, paid holidays, health insurance, strong union, retirement. most jobs in the military are really no more totalitarian than any other job, that there is no positive contribution to anything whatsoever is also not unusual in the world of work. If the slave selects the master, he can´t be expected to change things. the idea that some workers in a capitalist are more ethical than others, and that their behavior, when followed, would change things positively, is comparable to the idea that there some consumers are more ethical than others. Carefully choosing a master can´t alter the system of slavery, just as carefully choosing which slavedriver to do business with won´t change it either. Nobody has clean hands, cashiers in dillards aren´t, in principle, any better than military guards, and the people at whole foods can´t buy their way out of capitalism with organic foods and non GM and $3 soy whatever- their superficial prejudice is just another market to exploit. ‘the master´s house will not be taken apart with the master´s tools’- That is to say, choosing an expropriator or consuming this rather than that, for cosmetic reasons, are not positive actions. They may at best be keeping things the way they are. as for activist consumption, boycotts, etc, say for example vegetarianism, the only thing relevant is the “statement” it makes, not the actual damage it does, which is absolutely negligible or probably non-existent.

What should be emphasized instead is the idea of “non-cooperation with evil”, which certainly implies very radical personal changes and rules out dillards, the sandwhich shop and the military, insofar as working for these are anything other than means of survival. The most important thing is expressing dissent loudly, and that is the only thing that counts, and the only compelling reason to say, not eat meat or not join the air force- it´s not because our lack of participation actually changes anything, but because i´t´s a condemnation of the way things are, that we should try to amplify as loud as possible.
[military]no longer…deserves respect? wehen did it ever?
What are you bitching about?
Excuse me, I just wanted some social engagement on this sunday evening. And i think the lack of interest int he military must have another explanation, say, the general aversion to commitment to employers, given changes in the labor market in the last decades. Looking like a dork or dropping cluster bombs on peasants never stopped anyone before, so why should it now.

Is there any hope in the human race?
Can this be divorced from the question of whether there is any hope for one´s own life?
And can this be divorced from the uterus?
do i have anything interesting to tell you, no i don´t think so, nothing is happening here. i´m suffocating in every sense.

you should look up “le monde diplomatique,” it´s often not bad.

those quotes that you have here, well some of them, i sent you last year.

It does have a perceived respect. That is what I’m referring to. It doesn’t have honor to me, certainly.