Here's that proposition again. When I posted this before, someone commented at the pointlessness of it, since people will still be buying gas on the day before and the day after and this sort of thing was attempted before without any effect. Still, it makes a statement, and what is life if we don't at least try?
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. - Henry David Thoreau
not that anyone reads it, but Im going to post this to my blog
ReplyDeletePrecisely, Rick - we MUST try, we have to keep on trying, whatever it is we have to do. The only time one should stop doing hwat one believes in is when they start nailing the coffin lids down [sorry for being morbid]. Regarding this petrol/gas strike, even if its a failure it still sends a message to the Powers That Be. Back in 1991 an extortionate tax was levied on the people of Scotland, the public refused to pay one months tax [in the form of a newspaper and television campaign, long long before the internet] and the resulting furore ended in a London politician going up to Scotland to meet protestors - the first time any politican from London had visited there in TWENTY years! People power can count...when I studied at Cambridge, we used to collect tin cans [dont ask] to raise money for guide dogs for blind people. Approx 2000 cans were needed to raise money for just one dog. Someone [predictably someone who didnt raise anything for charity] queried whether it was a waste of time. They mightve had a point...until one pointed out that if only 1999 cans were collected and the final person didnt bother bringing their can, then all that collecting wouldve been for nothing. And a blind person wouldve gone without a dog.
ReplyDeleteSo even if just ONE person does something, anything, it really DOES make a difference.
Keep up the campaign!
O!Daddie - Have patience, you'll get a following.
ReplyDeleteKarl - Thanks!