Think way back...

[Ele'ill]

When did you all become interested in politics or changing the world around you? Recite a story about how you became who you are today.


I was in 2nd or 3rd grade and this group came into our school (what I remember of them reminds me of the beehive collective) and they had large banners and they performed skits involving sea turtles and whales. They must have said something important because I still remember the colors of the clothes they were wearing.

From that point on I held an interest in nature, ecology and how things work in the natural world.

I worked retail for about four years and saw the horrors of that. Such injustice is allowed and assumed to be no big deal because people are so used to it.


Rage Against the Machine helped me along a little too.

I'll post some big ones if this thread kicks off.

[danyboy27]

my parents where watching the news and i got fascinated with that.

i started watchign the news when i was 12, and it triggered my curiousity.

[Dr Mindbender]

i spent the second half of my childhood during the peak of the northern irish troubles.

My hatred of orange-ism, the general shitty working conditions of the working class and the treatment of catholics by paramilitary groups pretty much put me off the right wing. I guess the straw that broke the camel's back was tuition fees when i knew i'd be saddled with a 10 k + university debt.

You can't get that sort of politicisation in a peacetime environment.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

Bassicly i started getting intrested in history when i was eight and used to read those horrible history books. I had that habit kids do of choosing goodies and baddies throughout history. This meant i got interested in politics. (well wars really but there is a political element to wars) which meant that i would often strangely "cheer on" if you will a side from a historical battle while reading. Obviously i would have to pick sides and it went on like that until i came across Vietnam.

You must understand that at the time i had some major anti-American prejudices which were (are but less so) very common around the first half of the decade. These would be things such as "Americans are greedy fat bastards who sell shitty burgers in the high street". I had some quite a bit of patriotic crap in me and although I supported the vietcong i kind of just called myself a socialist (but i was really just a liberal) declining communism because "people dont like state made underwear".

Then i went to secondary school at 11 started to strongly dislike religion especially after i was tricked into going to a bible camp. I also had some quite big issues with the school (oh your dyspraxic that must mean you need the same help as the kid who eats his own shit - which was bassicly the attitude of the school). So bassicly i became a che kiddy to vent my anger and after a few years foudn this site

[Bud Struggle]

(Being slightly older than the bulk of you guys--) Thinking back I remember the Communist bastards working damn hard to blow my skinny eight year old ass to smitherens. We hid under desks after the air raid alert. We closed our eyes because looking out the window during the blast would cause blindness.

Communists wanted to kill me and my family. Not quite true it turns out.

But I was taught as much. I'm sure little Russian kids were taught the same about us.

[#FF0000]

9/11 happened and I figured that adults really weren't as smart and trustworthy as I once believed.

Then with a brutal sense of fairness and right and wrong, I read up on the history of the middle east a bit later (I was 14 or so?) and decided that the United States government all but invited the attack by being a gaggle of dicks to the rest of the world, and it was regular people like me and my family and my friends that were paying for it.

Until then, I wanted to join the military and go to West Point and all that. I went from a sort-of libertarian to democratic socialist in a day. The more I read, the more radical I got. Eventually I managed to settle the conflict between my socialist ideas and the anti-state sentiment that held over from my older beliefs by discovering libertarian communism and anarchism.

[TheCultofAbeLincoln]

I was smoking a fatty and some cocksuckin ***** released his dog on me.

[Matty_UK]

I grew up seeing the tories and particularly Thatcher as pure evil. My dad lost his factory job when I was 4 years old thanks to tory policies so he was unemployed trying to support 2 kids and my mam, had lots of bitter words about the Tories but believed the Labour Party were the way forward, and I just copied his opinions at first.
Then there was the Iraq War, like lots of people I didn't buy the evidence-devoid justifications and that was when I realised that the Labour Party weren't the good guys, and started seeking out explanations for why the government wasn't listening to the people, and Marxism gave me the best (only?) answers.

[Killfacer]

Bassicly i started getting intrested in history when i was eight and used to read those horrible history books.


:lol: Good stuff, i loved those books when i was young.

[Trystan]

I just realised that people were all getting fucked, me included.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

:lol: Good stuff, i loved those books when i was young.

I still love em.

http://www.royalarmouriesshop.org/acatalog/hhrottenromans.jpg

[Killfacer]

Best one was the Savage Stone Age. Although i liked them all.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

The tele program was shit though.

[Ele'ill]

I remember seeing the seattle incident unfold on tv for five or six days.

Someone once accused me of having mommy and daddy issues. Its true but not for the reasons they would like to think. My family fell apart when I was young and once I started seeing adults fuck up badly I started to question who ran things in this world. If my own family can be this messed up than I can only imagine what adults in power, ruling over massive amounts of other adults, mess up on a daily basis.


And then I read peter pan.

I've made plenty of mistakes in my life but holy hell I cannot even imagine having the idiotic nerve to govern people.