Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Some people convert even more quickly, I remember the Balliol >guy (Balliol >JCR at that time had a Stalinist constitution written by this >very guy) who >was a strong Scargill supporter during the strike then went to >work for the >Coal Board directly out of college. At my advanced age these things no >longer even sadden me, but I was surprised then! On this side of the Atlantic the poster boy for the sellout movement is the American Jerry Rubin - from Yippie activist to Yuppie stockbroker. And I suppose I have to include myself - I was in Paris in the spring of '68, shooting pictures of tear-gas and truncheons with my parents' Canonet. Now I supervise firmware hackers and wait for the Information Highway to fire me more stock options that I can convert into Leica glass. Tax laws seem a lot more important now than they did back then, and social justice issues seem dangerously easy to ignore... Fortunately this worm of guilt keeps gnawing at me, and I tell myself that as soon as things settle down at work I'm going to do Something That Makes A Difference. Till then, donations to Medecins Sans Frontiers and Amnesty International will have to salve my conscience. But once I retire, watch out world :-/ And I can always take comfort in the fact that although the snaps I take today don't have the same social bite as the ones I shot with that old Canonet, they sure have better bokeh... Paul