Archerboy!!

Wow, that's quite a powerful scuplted image you have for a sig pic!! i feel like it resembles my visits to BC, etc.! Virtually "pitter-pattering" my way over and thru Boychat! Launching off a demystification arrow here, then there, and then all around! Upsetting those whom've internalized the values of Empire and cannot easily wrap their well-educated heads around something like a sprite (?) showing up!! Or at least NOT a *natteringly negative nabob*!! (thanks Tyred, for the colorful words!) But they ARE at least FINALLY wondering what they missed in their so-called "Good Education"!! As their flimsy world caves in metaphorically and not so metaphorically around them. (i.e. the long-running, but ill-prepared (?) canadian group; IS there ANY "prep" one can do? OF COURSE THERE IS, when you read/hear the voices of the long-oppressed. Archer, i am especially enjoying your flow of language, btw. How y'all (you and those engaging you) articulate yourselves. Like, wow, that's refreshing! And Dutch! Suddenly i'm thinking of those dariNg Dutch who tried to actually find out if their nation could 'buck' the empire's unseen Hand. Only to have a very hard reckoning. But they apparently SURVIVED!! And ARE MUCH MORE wise, now..or AT LEAST OPEN TO radical consciousness much more! Taken to 'The Brink' as they were. (i haven't been at all 'up' on what's been happening, but happened to read about bits of it in the MAP press, when i did finally get a notion to look.) Surely, i "know" you by another sig pic. But, hey, whatever! dOOi! (Still hoping to locate Gelgisith, somewhere, again!) "Alien values are implanted into the lives of the people, precisely through the children; alien, not merely in the sense of foreign or exotic, but alien to humanity: a commerciogenic identity is formed. At first it was partly resisted, but with time, it became more and more acceptable, until it has now become a major determinant on the lives of the young, displacing all earlier forms of acculturation, other ways of answering need, other ways of being in the world. This process of forgetting, beyond recall, but perhaps not quite beyond reclamation, is a form of colonialism far more effective than that which held so much of the world in thrall in an earlier empire." ----Jeremy Seabrook in 'The Metamorphoses of Colonialsm'