In my case, there was a structure of interest as a result of my father's background as a historian, and his teaching. The dialog and actions I became involved in were a result of the Viet Nam war. It was, I thought, a real cause, a non-hypocritical one. I was -- young.
As you may remember from other diaries, the tear gas-goon squad incident was real, and it was me in that alley.
That did it.
Not suggesting that that's the only way.
I do believe, however, that without empathy- the ability to sense and sympathize with another's joy or pain- any "left dialog" is hypocrisy.

If it's all just mechanistic word-play, symbol-chess, it's empty.


Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.