Re: Critical Mass Tunnel Freaks - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

07-10-2003, 01:16 PM

07 Jul 2003 21:17:26 GMT,
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (Hunrobe) wrote:

>>Self powered people are all welcomed to join the rolling party that
>>then becomes a product of, and an implement for further, social
>>change. A political party pays lip service to social change while its
>>real interest lies in maintaing the status quo.
>>--
>>zk
>
>In order to be an "implement for further social change" C-M will first have to
>effect some initial social change, something that they have failed to do to
>date. I don't have any real animus toward C-M. They just seem to me to be
>totally ineffectual in improving conditions for cyclists.
>
>Regards,
>Bob Hunt

In ten years the movement spread xerocracy worldwide without an
advertising budget, embargo or bombing campaign.
That's different.

For the participants, who are largely cyclists, (~800 in Vancouver's
last mass) the conditions improve dramatically for about two hours
every month.

We make it so because there's enough of us that we can.

A society that tolerates daily traffic jams and gridlock, are never
going to be revolutionaries.
--
zk