Who cares?
Good question: I doubt that very many people care. In fact, if you are student reading
these remarks, you are probably in the minority. Similarly, you probably care. Libertas
readers have the brain capacity and attention span required for concern. No matter what
the people in the admissions office told you, not everyone at this 'happy little college' is
your equal in this respect. After all it's a lot easier to worry about whether you'll fit into
your black sexpants, or to brag about who fellated you last weekend. Actively pursuing
your beliefs takes time and energy, conviction and emotion.
We're the only people who need to care. Systems are not democratic; the margins are
always left critiquing the interior, redirecting courses and opinions.
Why bother?
Another good question: I don't expect any of the criticism of this issue's Focus to
effect idealistic changes. Criticism is discourse, which is only information, language.
But the Constitution is discourse. The Bible, too. Libertas has every intention of
exposing alternative perspectives and re-examining convention. Thinking and talking
about things in a new way is the first step in change. Discourse's nonsubstance has more
substance than a sword.
Who do we think we are?
The margins. Everyone else is fair game, naked in our sights: direction and change
comes through this discourse and the organizations that this discourse represents. Yet
this is not entirely true. Truly we're all just satyrs too clever and energetic to spend all
day with bottles and pipes.
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