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Thank you Italy, let’s all put our bodies to the gears of the machine like Italy did
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”
—Mario Savio (1964)
Thank you Italy, let’s all put our bodies to the gears of the machine like Italy did
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.” —Mario Savio (1964)
Those were the days my friend.
Imagine if that momentum had been captured instead of crushed and marginalized
It’s immortalised in things like the passage you quoted