A Couple of Questions (NTW18)
Over the passed couple of weeks I have spent a couple of hours watching the rehearsals for NTW18. I've had a couple of discussions, which have lead to a couple of thoughts and I thought I'd might as well blog about it.
This idea of "radicalization" keeps coming up, and I wonder what would radicalize me. The persecution of my family? Living in a society where I feel like me freedoms have been taken away? Luckily, these are things that I've never had to deal with. All things considered, I've lead a pretty care-free existence. I wonder if I would have the courage to stand up, or to speak out for the things that matter most to me. And I suppose I wonder...
What would make you protest?
What would get you so fired up that you had no choice but to do something?
How far would you go?
...Just a couple of questions to get us all thinking.
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Comment by Catherine Paskell on April 3, 2012 at 11:07
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WHAT WOULD MAKE ME PROTEST?
Something that I feel once it's gone, it's gone and never coming back... Like privatising the NHS, or the end of a relationship that you thought was going quite well!
I marched against the invasion of Iraq when I was living in San Francisco in 2003. That was an amazing experience, immensely affecting and incredible when afterward I saw how the US media manipulated the representation of the march through skewed reporting. So we protested that. I was studying at the University of California Santa Cruz so we protested pretty much everything we could that year. It was part of our culture.
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Comment by John Williams on April 2, 2012 at 12:36
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What ever would make me protest it would have to be big. I'm not sure i could readily get fired up to easily i don't like to lead or speak up or against things. I'm a sheep and just like to go with the crowd and unless the crowd protested then maybe i would consider it.
There is probably something there thatwould get me fired up but as you have also said Jess i have never felt the need to protest. I may have my own judgements on certain things but they have never been big enough to make me voice my opinion.
I respect anyone who has the guts to stand up in what they believe in whatever the consequences. But i'm not sure i could ever put myself in that position. :/
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