"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, Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964
This blog took it's name from Mario Savio's most famous speech.
This blog, however, isn't one championing for Free Speech Movement, nor is the author politically active or inclined.
In fact, this blog would be full of randomness and.. for a lack of a better term, crap.
And total disregard for proper grammar, sentence structure, and common sense.
Ironically, I'm a linguist :D ..well I'm a linguistic student, so I'm more than halfway there.. I hope.
I'd also like to point out that I only know Mr. Savio as much as my good friend Wikipedia would tell me, which isn't an awful lot.
I got to know him from a song recorded some 14 years after he died, a song which is coincidentally one track after my favourite song from the latest Linkin Park album and the track after my second favourite.
This blog had to be created right now, at this moment, 10:10:10 a.m, on the 10th of October 2010, because, well, I wanted to do something cool :P It would be a shame if this blog died 10 hours 10 minutes 10 seconds later, so I hope I'll be able to blog 10 times 10 times 10 times that amount (and hopefully more :P).
And now, I'm going to go home and sleep so I can wake up later to pull off even more cool stuff.. hopefully T_T
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