I'm experiencing an interesting ideological shift...

[bicentennial_baby]

Well, more of a re-shuffling.

Dial it back to 2001...I was non-political, caught up in my own early 20s drama.

Then, 9/11...Now, I focused, got online, started getting into politics, etc. Got pretty radical and active...

Next, college...eventually became an Econ major, distracted, and soaking up the usual academia vibe, kinda disconnected from my politics. Still involved, but not in an effective way. I became engrossed in Econ and school in general, didn't pay much attention to my politics.

Now, I'm veering back to my radical tendencies, and I'm ok with that. Staying in school, but not really in the mainstream.

I guess it's just a matter of...what matters to you. :)

/ramble over.

[graywarrior]

1. I'm getting more and more radically political the older I get.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Hell, I Used To Be A Registered Republican! Honest!

Then I grew up (somewhat, anyway).

Now I'm pretty far left - because I looked around the world and found that Liberal policies result in better outcomes.

[bicentennial_baby]

6. d00d...You should come with me...

to the Union of Radical Political Economy conference in NY this August. :D

[Gabi Hayes]

7. same here. care to join my anarcho-syndicalist commune?

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http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-03.htm

ARTHUR:
How do you do, good lady? I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that?
WOMAN:
King of the who?
ARTHUR:
The Britons.
WOMAN:
Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR:
Well, we all are. We are all Britons, and I am your king.
WOMAN:
I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
DENNIS:
You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship: a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN:
Oh, there you go bringing class into it again.
DENNIS:
That's what it's all about. If only people would hear of--
ARTHUR:
Please! Please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
WOMAN:
No one lives there.
ARTHUR:
Then who is your lord?
WOMAN:
We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR:
What?
DENNIS:
I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week,...
ARTHUR:
Yes.
DENNIS:
...but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting...
ARTHUR:
Yes, I see.
DENNIS:
...by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,...
ARTHUR:
Be quiet!

[AlCzervik]

2. The older i get the more liberal i become.

I tell you another thing that got more more involved---and this is in no way a suggestions ok? Having a kid, totally changed my view and interest level in participating in the process of democracy, try and make a better world for my kid and everyone else's kid.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Hey, we're working on it!

No such luck yet.. x(

:)

I hear you. :hug:

[realisticphish]

5. i feel you

sounds like i'm a little younger than you, but about the same pattern. I was really into the 2004 election, but I think i've just become cynical about politics. I don't believe anyone is 100% what they say or do in public, and especially not politicians. The difference is that I'm not into this election much, except that I hate McCain. Other than that, I had no horse in the primary, and I probably won't do much more than get some bumper stickers and vote :shrug:

I'm still a lefty, but I am no longer an idealist. I used to have pretty far left opinions, but that is LOOOONG gone. I don't believe that any single politician can truly change things for the better, and one election certainly won't have a significant effect on the issues that really bother me (civil liberties, separation of church and state, etc). At best they will stop doing the shitty things that the Bush administration did, but it's going to take a lot to change the direction the country is going, especially in a recession.

lol, what do you know, i rambled too :D

[hunter]

8. The world needs more "radical" economists.

Learn lots, spit it back, graduate, and find a secure footing from which you can challenge the paradigm.

[bicentennial_baby]

9. That is exactly the plan!

Ha! :D

Shhhhh! Don't tell! :P

[AlCzervik]

10. you damn right.

[MisterP]

11. Derrida's "Specters of Marx" is eerily prescient

and blends Marxism and postmodernism nicely
but now I've lost interest in con Dem-vs.-Repub races