So we have Greenpeace here in the capital of our nation crawling up a high-rise crane and putting up a banner that could be seen from the White House - RESIST it said. Signs in the street in a couple of the less than peaceful demonstrations said the same thing. But the curiosity to some is the use of the same term by some in the mass of people in Romania protesting their government.
Such a word does not come up in different places without some sort of amazing coincidence. Maybe it is just catchy. Maybe it is seen on enough newspapers to become an idea worth repeating. Some of these people fancy themselves as the French Resistance during World War II. They believe they are resisting a government that is oppressing them. One of my friends said his son called his employer Nazis for the way they conducted themselves in business. Ridiculous.
These are the real Dreamers of the world. When they don't get their way, they pout. They whine. They accuse. They claim a noble cause with a simple word that means more than most of them know. None of them will be tortured for belonging to a group of complainers. None of them will be shot for blocking the streets and firebombing a Starbucks. Though a few of them may actually go to jail in Washington D.C. For burning a poor man's limo because he was doing his job. Not so at Berkeley. There is no justice at Berkeley.
We have to hope that this generation turns out like the "hippies" of the 60's who were out in the streets more than they were in class. Now they are getting ready to retire after working for a living and figuring out how well off they are to live in a country that didn't put them in jail for what they said out loud, or wrote in a University newspaper. They had kids and got jobs; some of them even got elected to public office. But, all of them had to grow up first. Resistance is futil.
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