Haven been on in a While...

Yeah, for the most part, powting fizzled and stopped over the summer. there were no classes nor homework to procrastinate from, so why bother.

Anyways net net its finals time here at the illustrious Georgetown University (i fled RISD with more zeal then the irish diaspora) and now i am sitting in my bed with my Christmas tree "studying" for my 4 finals in three days.

This morning at breakfast I got into another idealistic-collegate talk about politics. It was a discussion stemming from my odd perseptions of art: having studied it I can appreciate the masters technically surely, and find some odd satisfaction in seeing how many different ways people can complete and interpert an assignment, but i feel the study of something influencial, such as medicine or politics, is in general far more noble. The person I was having this discussion with countered me, saying that many of the congressmen today are successful buisnessmen or lawyers who are now seeking a different type of power. I was (of course) arguing the idealistic point: serving the constituency, looking out for the tired, hungry and poor. I argued that the people on M and Wisconson who were holding up the "Stop Bitching and Start a Revolution" shirts bugged the shit out of me, because they were completing nothing. I am studying so that I can know enough about the international system to hopefully take all my idealistic tendancies and work them within the system.

Anyways. So I'm researching this paper, and I stumble accross this quote from Foreign Affairs:

Rising wealth meant that more and more people were
able to fleewhat KarlMarx and Friedrich Engels had called"the idiocy
of rural life": between 19oo and r98o, the proportion of the world's
population that lived in large cities more than doubled. And byworking
more productively, people had more time available for leisure. Some
spent their free time successfully campaigning for political represen-
tation and the redistribution of income. As a result, governments ceased
to confine themselves to providing only basic public goods, such
as national defense and a fair judicial system, but instead became
welfare states that sought nothingless than the elimination ofpoverty.

Stop Bitching and Start a Revolution?