Re: [Marxism] When Skateboards Will be Free

[David Thorstad <binesi@xxxxxxxxx>]

A few years ago, I saw an Op-Ed piece in the /New York Times /by 
Garrison Keillor stating that (at a time when Norway had a majority of 
females in the cabinet--unlike any other country on Earth) they pushed 
through a regulation banning use of skateboards by youths--a kind of 
motherhood protection of youth that could only stifle youthful exuberance.
David
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Joaquin Bustelo wrote:

Guava tree done writ: "Usually parents don't want their children to have
skateboards because they're bourgeois, or bourgeois-aspiring and don't want
their children 'loitering', breaking the law, hanging out with a
counterculture. I wonder if any of these motives unconsciously factored into
his mother's decision?"

GOSH, I wish I'd known this three or four years ago. Me, I thought it was
just the next stage after Yugi-Oh and before electric guitars, and it would
have done wonders for my self esteem had I understood the profoundly
revolutionary implications of $75 skateboard shoes, instead of going home
shaking my head and saying to myself, J., you're such a pushover. If he
asked for nukes you'd probably engage him on whether he wanted them on
stealth bombers or MIRVed ICBM's.


Joaquin


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