(Which is funny, really, as the dating game is the oldest form of laissez-faire market capitalism in history; I guess a dreadlocked Nu Marxist in a Rage Against the Machine T-shirt just makes a better capitalist than a polo-shirted Young Liberal.)
Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Thu Jan 17 15:02:37 2002
I'm thinking of printing stickers reading "LOVE == CAPITALISM", in a suitably bold sans-serif face, and putting them on any Valentine's Day-related marketing material as F14 draws nigh. Want some stickers?
(Alas, though, f14.org is taken.)
Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Thu Jan 17 15:05:41 2002
Re: Young Libs. I recall that the SA branch wanted to legalise all drugs a while ago. So presumably the organisation would draw in the sorts of people who become Libertarians in the US. (And who are described by some US wags as "Republicans who smoke pot".)
Posted by: Mike Skallas | http://everythingisnt.com | Thu Jan 17 22:50:47 2002
Wow, I've noticed the complete opposite in normal US society. Women will always go for the Republican with the suit and car vs. any liberal of any stripe whose ambitions don't involve owning a five bedroom house.
Of course its all a matter of where you go. Work is probably the worst place to meet someone if you lean mostly to the left.
Posted by: Graham | http://grudnuk.com | Thu Jan 17 23:27:53 2002
Yeah, well, judging some of the motions from the Young Libs' recent conference, they've stepped into line with daddy, with motions about removing Greenpeace's tax deductible status and something about telling the UNHCR to fuck off. Though that can still be regarded as a libertarian stance, I suppose.
Posted by: JImbob | http://www.the-fix.org/ | Fri Jan 18 01:26:17 2002
What inspires a young person to wake up one morning and think to themselves "hmmm...I'm going to go join the Young Liberals!". I guess we'll never know.
Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Fri Jan 18 04:53:51 2002
After being put through Joan Kirner's social-engineering experiment (a.k.a. the VCE) I briefly went to Liberal Club meetings at uni; that is, until Jeff got elected. Soem stereotypes are true: most Liberal Students are law students, and live in Toorak, Brighton or other old-money suburbs.
Someone I know once dated a neo-Nazi, many years ago. He's now apparently high up in the Liberal Party in Canberra (though not in public life).
Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Fri Jan 18 04:55:20 2002
Btw, does the Howard government have any plans to remove Greenpeace's tax-deductable status, or is it just the young extremists?
Posted by: Toby | http://www.rageboy.com/ | Fri Jan 18 08:35:29 2002
Love==capitalism? Clever, but perhaps SEX==CaPITALISM is more accurate. Ooops, that typo proves I'm not much of a capitalist <groan>
Posted by: Toby | http://www.adbusters.org/ | Fri Jan 18 08:44:05 2002
What inspires someone to wake up in the morning and think, "Today I'm going to *vote* for the <expletive> Liberals!", I wonder. Although voting at all is pointless. Anyone care to hear my calculation that one vote is *designed* to be the smallest possible unit of power? (i.e. take the unit of power required to sway an election, and divide it into 20 million, and give each voter that fraction. No thanks! I think I'd prefer my power in larger slabs than that. Yes, that's right: how about Packer sized blocs. Or Murdoch sized blocs. The kind of bundles of 100,000s of votes that having a media mouthpiece can give you. How naive are these kids who finish high school and believe the <expletive> AEC when they're told, "Do something for yourself! Vote!" when the truth is, you're better off NOT being on their books, when the shit hits the fan; and almost anything is more effective at changing the status quo than a vote. But don't expect to read that in the Herald Sun, or see it in a 15 second spot on Channel 9. Read a
Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Fri Jan 18 09:08:11 2002
As for love, sex and capitalism, I'd say that romantic love (i.e., mate selection) is every bit as much a classic capitalist marketplace situation as sex; in fact, perhaps more so, as it's more of a long-term proposition (genetic investment and all that).
Even if you're socialist, your genes are capitalist; something to think about...
Posted by: Toby | http://www.adbusters.org/ | Fri Jan 18 12:14:17 2002
Love, sex, whatever.
While we're in a political mood, everyone's favourite Parental Advisory wartime comic has added some pages: http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html
Hang in till page 7.
Which reminds me, did you see the terrific Bruce Petty this week?
Posted by: Zippy the Pinhead | http:// | Fri Aug 2 06:36:06 2002
YOW! My MIND is a SUBMARINE!
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Posted by: TOBY | http://www.rageboy.com/ | Thu Jan 17 14:22:04 2002
Are you implying that (Young) Liberals know liberty from a hole in the ground...?
Funny you should make that comment about dating==capitalism; I've been musing lately whether women are sexual capitalists while men are sexual socialists... I'm not sure, and not game to raise the topic in female hearing :)