[Barry the Sprout]

Some of you may know that I am heavily involved in Left Wing groups. I campaign for what I beleive in and I try and persuade other people. I will go to meetings and speak, I will hand out leaflets, I will put up posters and I will defend what I beleive in to anyone who cares to listen.

But I am starting to wonder why. Me and some friends recently tried to get Bacardi boycotted from the student union bars here at the LSE. We failed hopelessly, which we expected. That wasn't the annoying thing. What was annoying is that some guys tried to rub our noses in it by tabling a motion titled "There's Latin Spirit in Every One!" which would give £500 to the bar in order to give free Bacardi to people next Wednesday. It came very close to passing - the only reason it didn't was because it is actually illegal for our union to do that so it had to be withdrawn.

Thy argued in favour of it by saying "We are at University to have a good time. We want to get drunk and stick two fingers up to all those people who think its fun to stand around handing out leaflets.". This reeeeeeeeally depressed me. I do not do it for fun, I do it because it might effect something. It might make someones life better. We can all have a good time at Uni because we live in the UK and have a bit of money. Some people aren't as lucky and it looks like I am the only one who cares. I am studying at the London School of Economic and Political Science and no one gives a damn about politics anymore. Caring about other people has become so passe it is just ridiculous.

I tried to go and get absolutely trollied at the Union bar last night to take my mind off it but I couldn't get in - the irony of it. I ended up in Leicester Square at 1 am worryingly sober and still extremly depressed.

I live my life on the basis that it can help other people. Why am I bothering if no one wants to listen.

This is one of the things that contributed to me rising to the bait when posts in the war forum pissed me off. Normally I try and argue with them but just recently, like the topic says, I have been thinking "Whats the point".