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• Friday, December 5, 2008 06:27 PM

  Oh, fuh cryin' out loud, omooex

  Look, adnoto and others have given a whole litany of "specifics" for resisting the further consolidation of the Autocracy. Specifics.

  And what do you do? You say he (and all the others) haven't said anything, don't have any ideas, are not providing specifics. Glenn does the same thing. It happens again and again. Been going on for years. Specifics are constantly met with, "That's not specific enough." And "that's not what I meant."

  So I point out that it's a game. Nothing adnoto can offer will be "enough." Whatever is offered will always be met with derision at best, denial that anything has been offered at all most of the time. Insults. Denunciations. The whole list. Insults and derision returned with interest.

  And you have a problem with my pointing this out -- when I've witnessed it over and over again, and you did it to me in response to the short list of specifics I offered?

  It's absurd.

  Especially when all these Big Revolutionaries start carping about how I've given up and joined the sheeple, because I point out that what's left of the real Left and what passes for the imaginary "Left" of the Blogosphere have too much invested in the present political norms to revolt or even contemplate it. All right all you Big Revolutionaries, we'll see you on the barricades tomorrow, right? Sure we will.

  I stand by my point that there aren't enough "specifics" to satisfy the critics. We've seen that right here today.

  There is no lack of organizations and organizers on the side of the Light --- some of which could, on the spur of the moment, be the catalysts for uprising -- but few are inclined to it right now. Contra some around here, I never suggested organizing and organizers weren't fundamental to achieving objectives. Of course they are. And they already exist.

  It isn't necessary to reinvent the wheel or to think this path has never been trod before. All the specifics you could want and need are right there in front of you, and some -- like ondelette -- are out there day after day doing just what needs to be done to tell the truth and shame the devil. But it isn't spurring revolt, not on our side.

  Not yet.

  —Ché Pasa Read Ché Pasa's other letters
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