The cost of collapse
By adamg - 12/31/07 - 3:09 pm
There are probably better places to spray-paint anti-war slogans than the side of a dentist's office on Corey Street in West Roxbury, but whatever, you gotta start somewhere. The retort does leave you wondering: What if we can't afford our own collapse?
Then again, Westie does seem to have a bit of a subversive streak:
Resist.
Revolutionary stencils right on Centre Street.
Meanwhile, over in Eastie, Fabulously Out There was busy photographing something else falling, namely some guy's pants.
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Five years from now, that
Five years from now, that Nimrod with the spray paint can will be sitting in an office chuckling at Dilbert cartoons. Viva la Revolucion!
West Roxbury and the collapse of American Society
West Roxbury has gone right down the tubes with all
these America hating, latte sipping yuppies moving in.
The last pocket of resistance can be found at Anna's Donut
Shop on Centre Street about 7am each morning.
These guys huddle in the corner and plot how to make
America strong again.
VIVA ANNA'S
Oh, please!!
I've got news for you, Tom. These "American-hating, latte-sipping yuppies", as you call them represent too much of America for you to turn back the tide, try as you might. If a democracy is truly desired, one has to accept the fact that there are going to be people who don't necessarily and always agree with your viewpoints. That's the way it is.
Anna's saved my life!
When I was a kid and dinosaurs roamed
the earth, I did a summer on the 7-3:30
shift at Armstrong Aerosols
on Lagrange. We got a 15
minute morning break, and we would
race across Blanchard's and Centre
to Annas for coffee and honey-dipped.
Best thing I ever tasted. Of course, the
prospect of actually getting off the line for
a few minutes might have had something to
do with how it tasted.
Not too bad...
At least they spelled every word right.
West Roxbury Graffiti
Too bad "they" didn't use this venue to express themselves instead of defacing someone else's property.
I agree. It's a real eyesore.
The above-mentioned quote from your post says it all in a nutshell, newchristine! it's not only a matter of defacing someone else's property, but one gets sick of looking at it after awhile. It's a real eyesore, imho.
if you can keep it?
Perhaps i'm giving the taggers too much credit, but i think the response is a take-off on Ben Franklin's famous quote ("what kind of government do we now have?" "A republic, if you can keep it.")
On the other hand, maybe it wasn't a response at all, just a complaint about the dentist's high prices.
I found it!
Now we know - it's a Red Sox fan!
"Just three outs from getting swept in the AL championship series three nights earlier, the Red Sox finally humbled the Evil Empire, winning Game 7 in a 10-3 shocker Wednesday night to become the first major league team to overcome a 3-0 postseason series deficit.
"All empires fall sooner or later," Boston president Larry Lucchino said."
Ya know
Foreigners don't share patriotic Americans' understandable love of America, which is a great country, we must all admit. But speaking as a foreigner, the most annoying Americans in the world are those Americans who hate America. Traitors suck.
Hating imperialism is not the same as hating America
Some of us like the idea of the American Republic, as set out in the founders' Constitution and amended over time. Maintaining a republic does not require us to station US troops all over the world and occupy other countries; doing so in fact can undermine the republic.
Traitors?
What Ron said.
We fought a bloody revolution in large part so we would not have to automatically and blindly follow the dictates of an autocrat.
The right to dissent is as much a part of being an American as saluting the flag (more so, actually, since the former is incorporated into our principle law, the Constitution, via the First Amendment).
Imperialism runs against core US Values
If you love the idea of empire, go have a cup of tea and kiss King George's arse already. We'll chase you into Quebec and deport your children to England, after a tar-and-feather party of course!
Or not
Our last couple of incursions into Lower Canada didn't end too well.
54-40
or fight!
Not like Oregon - or that breakaway territory of Washington - needs another stylish latte capital filled with postmodern wonders and efficient public transit.
Well
Speaking again as a foreigner, the "All Empires Fall" line is okay, and us foreigners are rather divided on American troops everywhere (Germans quite liked having them protect them from the Russkies; Kuwait quited liked having them drive the Iraqis out, Canadians not so thrilled about the 1812 thing; Kurds didn't like them leaving, etc.).
However, what is that finger-shaking "America" lbit about? I mean, who is talking, and to whom? Isn't it rather pompous to lecture "America" at large when you are American? It's like, Listen up all America-who-is-not-me-and-therefore-needs-a-talking-to. I'd assume that the spraypaint was a hideous warning from some Al Q supporter, if it weren't for the comma. Who the heck spraypaints a comma? Search amongst the grammar nerds among you.
And
I enjoyed Swirrly Girl's violent fantasies about driving out fellow Americans into Quebec, or deporting them to England, and tarring and feathering them (rather more painful than waterboarding and sometimes fatal) because they did not agree with the political views of those more powerful than they. But give peace a chance.
Actually ...
that deportation to Canada IS what happened to some of my Loyalist progenitors for lovin themselves some British Empire and all that. Ever hear of Sherbrooke, PQ?
Hence the point: imperialism is inherently antithetical to the core values the United States was founded upon. Therefore, this grafitti is not in any way anti-American as one poster charged - not in any educated historical sense anyway!
Then again, too many Americans are ignorant of the historical references (not a "violent fantasy" seraphic - a historical reference) that Adam caught onto. I guess I can't expect foreign-born haters of "America-hating Americans" to catch on.