a good idea
i've often said that you never reach someone by screaming at them. all they do is turn you off and all you do is waste your breath. the most powerful methods of coersion and protest are the subtle methods, in my non-expert opinion.
serrabee posted a link to the army men project, which aims to spread plastic army men all over the world as a subtle reminder that...actually, i'm gonna let them explain it to you. here's a quote:
We’re spreading plastic Army Men around the country and around the globe as small, everyday reminders of the ongoing horrors of the war in Iraq and to serve as tools to foster dialogue, action and resistance to the war. Here in the United States we’re encouraged to forget about the war, to go on with our lives, to “go shopping.” But what if everywhere people went there were little plastic Army Men nudging them to remember that we’re waging war? At Home Depot, on the gas pump, in the 7-11, at the post office, on the hood of the car, in the public restroom, at the movie theatre, in the produce section of the grocery store … in your neighborhood …?
i'm in. gonna go to toys r us tonite and pick up a batch. print me up some labels. have me a little protest. who's in with me?
posted by newton dominey @ 9:42 AM
9 Comments:
wow... so if I see a little army man standing somewhere should I assume it was your doing?
cos that'd be COOL
yes. or one of my minions.
Ha. Minion. Of Gozer. Huh huh.
Does that make you one of MY minions? Cause you can't have too many minions, I always say!
at your service...
We used to do stuff like this, but it was called... ummmm... littering. Are they making biodegradable plastic army men nowadays?
I know, I know... being against more than one thing at a time is so taxing.
it would be littering if it didn't have a point or purpose.
and for what it's worth, don't think i didn't think long and hard about that question before taking action.
and don't be an asshole. if you're gonna leave a comment, have balls enough to leave some way to contact you.
Hmmm... didn't realize that leaving a comment in a discussion without leaving my forwarding address made me an asshole. You read my comment, I read yours, discourse achieved.
That said, sorry, but we'll just have to disagree on this one. Whether or not one has a purpose when leaving chunks of plastic strewn about on someone else's property means little to the folks that have to clean them out of the gutters - as if that will really happen. Nope, 9 times out of 10 (if that rarely) they're just going to be blown or washed away to someplace where they won't have a "meaning." In the gutter, in the sewer, in that 4' strip of grass between the BP station and the road... at that point, they're just trash that will still be here for your great-grandchildren to dig up.
i didn't mean leaving a comment made you an asshole. i meant that leaving a comment without actually allowing someone to contact you, in my estimation, is assholish.
i won't disagree with you that it's not the cleanest or most effective method of protest. but i think it's clever and i plan to participate - not cover the city with plastic army men. whoever said i was gonna leave them outside, anyways? there's loads and loads of places to put these little dueds that won't be effected by wind or rain or sleet or snow...
quit being the man behind the curtain.
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