February 3rd, 2005
…start a revolution. That is the newest bumper sticker found on my neighbors’ car, which is already plastered with other stickers such as:
“Dump Dubya”
“Hail to the Thief”
“Vote Bush: Sieg Heil!”
“John Ashcroft: The Best Attorney General the NRA Can Buy”
“Question Technology!”
“Boycott Kraft”
Boycott Kraft? I prefer Hellmann’s myself but isn’t this a little extreme? As the presidential election neared, the sticker count reached an all-time high. There was barely enough space for “Keep Alaska Wild.” And when Bush won, I feared the neighbors’ pickup would simply explode. What would they do next? Two stickers subsequently appeared. One involved voter fraud in Ohio. The other one said “Stop Bitching, Start a Revolution (zendik.org).” So what is zendik.org? From what I have seen of the site, it is some sort of commune founded by the late Wulf Zendik and his wife Arol. Brave readers can learn more about the Zendik farm, the Zendik philosophy, even Zendik sexuality. (I found myself both intrigued and disturbed.)
But I am still left wondering how my neighbors plan on starting their revolution.
Update from JVL, 2:47 p.m.: On the zendik site I found this passage: “We are very much Protoneutronic–one sex cannot function healthfully without the other. And the key word here is healthfully.” Umm, isn’t that homophobia? What would your neighbors say, Vic?
Or has Ashcroft already infiltrated the revolution?
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They have gone completely off the edge… and then some
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Lawjedi,Rest a little easier tonight. He’s not typical, although the laughable rhetoric is too common . . . Bumper stickers are one of my least favorite methods of political expression. They just encourage anger and discourage communication. When I see that many bumper stickers in one place, it always says to me that the driver has problems. He probably doesn’t know enough republicans, or the ones he knows are jerks (heh, to him anyway, perhaps deservedly).Some of those slogans were written for humorous effect, and if there was any such thing as ethics in the bumper sticker creation industry, they shoulda been scrapped when the joke didn’t seem funny anymore. They quickly went from merely “heh” to being less funny than “don’t laugh, it’s paid for.” Come to think of it, I think they started out less funny.
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The most disturbing bumper sticker combo I ever saw was on a beat-up old van in Westwood near the UCLA campus.First one read, “If this rig’s a rockin’, don’t bother knockin’.”Second one: “Sexy Grandpa”For more on bumper stickers please see this post.
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You know, that passage sounds just like the sort of thing Ashcroft is into. Rumour has it that he’s a big man on the protoneutronic scene. Hanging out at the protoneutronic bars, drinking protoneutronic drinks with like minded protoneutronic people. Yep it’s just one big protoneutronic party with him.Hmmm… Protoneutronic Party…It’s a catchy name and I think it could fit on a bumper sticker!It already sounds more sensible than the ‘Democratic Party.’ đ
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There’s a Bay Area blogger who had a very funny guide to local bumperstickers this past summer. I like his take on the real meaning of the ubiquitous FREE TIBET stickers: “People who want Bush to attack China, overthrow its government, and liberate Tibet. I supported the Iraq War, but I have reservations about this one”.
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I think my favorite bumpersticker of all time was: Science fiction readers eat their dead.And what about the Kraft boycott? I looked through some of the drivel on their website, but never did figure that out.
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I love the broad generalization, “typical liberal.” It’s so insightful, so witty.
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oh dear, here’s more from the “sexuality” section of Wulf, the zendrick patriarch’s, “work”(i just lost an easy hour to this commune web site)” He developed Erosensual Therapy as a direct result of his own loss of sexual potency at the age of seventy. Despite the cultural belief that impotency at this age is natural, Wulf theorized that his problems were essentially psychological. On one level or another, he had been a sexual performer all of his lifeâbusily giving, giving the best that he couldâbut he had never really learned how to receive, how to take pleasure in. To do so, he realized that he would have to work on himself, and learn to how to base his sex in friendliness, beginning with an attitude of friendliness toward his own body and genitals. He began his exploration and, without Viagra, regained his potency, and would remain sexually active practically until the time of his death at age 78.”
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I lived at Zendik back in the 80's, when they were in east san diego, trust me from what I read nothing has changed since Wulf passed, even back then his wife was in charge & living much better then the rest of us.
Lawjedi February 3, 2005 at 8:28 pm
Vic,Sorry that your neighbor has the typical liberal thought library on the back of his/her car.My favorite manaic combo, amid a bunch of other wingnut stickers, was that meaningless “practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty” sticker next to “my kid beat up your honor roll student”.So I guess the leftist wanted to be the recipient of kindness, but not the dispenser of same. But then we knew that about the left already.