[Alumni-chat] Legal Fund Needs - by Yazz Allen '66

[J. David Coldren]

Travis,

Is it possible that you mean Albert Speer instead of Rudolf Hess? 


J. David Coldren '65


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-----Original Message-----
From: alumni-chat-bounces at w3.antioch.edu
[mailto:alumni-chat-bounces at w3.antioch.edu] On Behalf Of Travis Sanford
(travissanford at msn.com)
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:44 PM
To: alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu
Subject: Re: [Alumni-chat] Legal Fund Needs - by Yazz Allen '66

Wow... being in the Pacific Daylight Time Zone leaves me way behind.

What I am discouraged by is not the personal acrimony and animosity, I have
never truly believed that people of goodwill can work everything out because
I find that very few people have much in the way of goodwill. I do believe
that all organizations suffer idealogical and politcal struggles to define
themselves and frequently the wealthy and powerful win those fights.  How
much harder then,  for Antioch where wealth and power are a requirement for
survival and we have developed a critique of wealth that some maintain for
the rest of their lives and some either lose entirely or it evolves toward
pragmatic acceptance of post-scarcity capitalism if not an outright embrace
of the inequality and injustice that system employs.

Seems to me its a matter of scale and therefore not one of purity. Is it
possible for anyone who drives a car on a daily basis can not claim to be
anti-capitalist or an environmentalist, let alone an
eco-anarcho-collectivist? We can claim to be purer than others because we
don't like the system that more or less forces us to drive everyday. Yet how
many make the sacrafice? In the Northwest the Toyota Prius Hybrid is the
number 2 selling car. Period. Across all vehicle classes the Prius is number
one in new car sales. Oregon and Washington have just passed Renewable
Portfolio Standards for electric utilities and everyone here likes to hug
and kiss and pat ourselves on the back for how green we are. In fact a Prius
is still an internal combustion engine and it burns gasoline and the
plethora of vinyl and plastics that make the car light are all petroleum
derivatives and (at least in Stumptown) almost everyone of them has some
kind of environmental sticker on them. RPS standards
  ignore
the fact that windpower is intermittant at best and that the nation lacks
the infrastructure for transmission and storage of a resource that only
works 33% of the time. Etc.

Long winded point, I don't dis David for being relatively rich. I don't dis
David for being a property developer building some gorgeous houses, I don't
even dis David for giving money to Repulicans ( I myself will be voting to
re-elect Gordon Smith to the senate ) or being involved in criminal justice.
These are all activities that can have positive side-effects and are time
specific (people change). I do dis David for not caring a whit about the
faculty and staff of the college and I think he believes they are in fact
part and parcel of the "problem" at Antioch. It does get tetchy when a real
estate developer proposes real estate development as part of the solution,
but I am not a developer but also think some creative leasing of the land
assets would be good for revenue (starting with leasing the crematorium to a
back office credit processing firm or some other such company that needs
65Ksqft). It is not neccesairly a conflict of interest for David to talk
about what is app
 arently
his area of expertise. I remember when Robert Davis came to Antioch, one of
my best friends ripped on him about Seaside being a gated community to let
wealth whites escape from blacks and for using plans by Leon Krier an
architect who wrote some questionable words about the architecture of
Rudolph Hess. Robert Davis is now doing a low income housing project in
Santa Fe or Taos. 

But Alan I agree w/you and have been yelling from the rooftops that just
because I want to Antioch in the 1990s does not mean my education was less
than pre-Strike folks, just different.


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