Great column by Jim Knipfel in NYPress, about his days working as a bill collector for a hippie-run book publishing house/commune in Philly. Best part:
As the months passed, my hatred for the people around me, their smugness, their self-righteousness and the controls they tried to place on the language began to overwhelm me. It was made very clear what we were and were not allowed to say, the terms we could and could not use around the office. In my lifetime, I have worked for and with people of every political stripe—anarchists, libertarians, Democrats, communists, Republicans, Maoists, avowed fascists. And I've noticed that none of those right of center has ever tried to control anything I said or wrote, which is much more than I can say about those who leaned to the left. (The fact that I ascribe to no political agenda whatsoever myself makes this easier to see and interesting to notice.)
Think about it- have you ever even met an "avowed fascist"?
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 14, 2004 06:35 PMIf they "don't consider themselves such," then I guess they're not "avowed."
Posted by: Stephen Silver at April 15, 2004 02:23 AM