old crufatin
Old Crufatin - The New York Times has been writing about Bill Ayers, one of the anarchist heroes of the sixties now turned professor. Ayers story proves how impressionable (and self-impressed) young minds are, and how some minds never grow up. But more than that, Ayers is a good antidote for the people who feel that we need to understand and thereby embrace terrorists. Ayers felt important when he was a part of destruction, and he doesn’t even lie about it. How hard is that to understand? Understanding someone isn’t the same as embracing them. The only thing difficult to understand about this old crufatin is why he still takes himself seriously. Sampling amateur anarchists from the sixties is good entertainment, but actually prop’ing these ideas in this day and age seems very naive. How does he explain his views to his captive audience of students in Chicago? “I used to make bombs to murder innocent people, but I don’t anymore. I still think it was a good idea, and if you do what I did then you might even get the same amazing results as me!” That’s really inspiring.