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An Anti-Something Movement



Excellent continuation of a recent discussion here…

“An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.”

There’s a Wilhelm Reich quote similar to this floating around somewhere. I will try to find it.







3 Reader Responses

  1. speedbird Says:
    September 24th, 2007 at 4:58 pm

    In the UK we used to have the Green Cross Code. That’s how I learned to cross the road safely:

    Stop
    Look
    Listen
    Think.

    (actually, I only remember the first three; maybe they tagged that last one on later)

    Apparently this has been discontinued and replaced with phrases like ’speed kills’ and ‘don’t drink and drive’. And casualties are on the increase. We used to have these ‘Charlie says…’ adverts on the telly that would scare seven shades of shit out of you (man, they was some bad trip); I remember when they shelved that cos it was too 70’s and we got naff pop-rap: ‘don’t step out when you’re close to the edge…’

    It’s all true, negative commands don’t work.

  2. Tim Boucher Says:
    September 24th, 2007 at 5:31 pm

    No they don’t!

  3. Prenna Says:
    September 26th, 2007 at 2:14 am

    This reminds me of a time Mother Teresa (I think) was asked to join an anti-war rally and she refused. In refusing she said something along the lines of “show me a peace rally and I’ll be the first to join”.



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