I remember Dany Cohn-Bendit from a TV series a while back. Something like "What happened to 68?", where he went around talking to the various european characters who'd been involved in "68".
"I hate the countryside. I am a city boy. I love roads and tarmac. So...why am I a Green?"
I think the beginning of the programme was sommat like that. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
"The trouble was when we asked for 400 francs a week. Before that we'd been asking for things like "team work", "parental leave", even "saunas in the workplace". They all added to the quality of life. But 400 francs turned it into money."
Or sommat!
Any reason why Dany isn't up there slugging it out ideology-wise with the likes of Blair etc.? He's much more intelligent, funnier, has a cutting edge... Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
There's another side, though, where I find he's one of the '60s generation leaders who bounced off Marxism into pro-capitalism. Meaning, finding excessive (imo) vices in the State, and excessive (imo) virtues in enterprise and markets.
