The only social movement in Southern Missouri December 28, 2007
Posted by Zack in Missouri , trackbackI spent the day working in a coffee shop in Springfield—and here’s what was on bulletin board in the back. (The next closest sign of anything political was a flier for free flu shots at Planned Parenthood.)
Link to Perspectives.org. (And here is some explanation of the phrase ‘You are the salt of the earth.’)
Sorry for the fuzzy photo. This is a flier for a church. Here’s a link to the church. Here’s a link to three local news articles about the church. Notice that the quote is from Rob Bell.
When I was an activist in high school and college, I used to dream that artists of my generation would start to see themselves as having a purpose. What I would have given to see a flier back then that said, “Wanted: Marxian Bassist.”
Back then, I scrutinized every bulletin board I ever came near. That was before the web (got out of college in ‘93), and coffee shop and campus bulletin boards were the way to find stuff that was more than one degree of separation away from you.
I kept hoping for some sign of a new revolutionary movement that wasn’t a crazy, worn out society for creative anachronisms. I’d make sure to look behind the fliers from the ISO, RCP or MIM. But nothing ever surfaced.
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I know just what you mean. Literally a “child of the sixties,” I thought the kind of passion behind the civil rights movement I witnessed in grade school was normal and that we’d get back to that kind of spirit. But in my lifetime to date, I have to say that something’s been slipping away.
I’m a Perspectives alumni, and can’t begin to tell how that course will wreck an otherwise comfortable lifestyle. That is to say, I highly recommend everyone take it!
Spot on Kimberly. The Perspectives course is a worldview-upsetting, lifestyle-challenging, kick in the @%#. It is thrilling to see how much longevity it has had since it was first started back in the 70’s.