[Barry the Sprout]

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Originally posted by Chewbacca:


I'm only 28, but a majority of the people in my network are 20+ years older than me, not only do they still believe they can change the world, alot of them have in some fashion or another during vietnam and the civil right movement. True dedication to a cause is like wisdom, it can grow deeper and stronger with age...

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Yeah I know Chewy - I am the only student in my anti sweatshop campaigning group. What I meant is that often people don't take you seriuosly when you are young because, like Yorick was saying, it is such a cliche.

Students are always activists and always grow out of it - is what most people say to me. I have thought this through and I was a Marxist before I got to Uni. I hope I will stay that way like the guys I know in these various groups. But it does scare me sometimes that I could change.

Thanks for your reply in the war forum thread (and Ronn_B if he is here). Hope my student colleagues like the article as well. On the basis of current feeling though I strongly doubt it.