FIRE
Issue
6//Summer 09 An Insurrectionary Quarterly
TO THE
PRISONS
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WE ALL WANTSATISFACTION
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WE ALL WANT
INSURRECTION
“If I win, I’m gonna buy a hugehouse and let all my friends livein it.”“If I win, I’ll travel the world.”“If I win, I’ll never have to work again.”
O
ur understanding of oppor-tunity is limited to the amountof money we have. Going frommaking $8-10 an hour, being theonly person in a dry town withweed for sale, the ten seconds
between the rst and last number
called for the 90 million dollar lottery: these are moments for which we feel closer to satisfac-tion. We feel closer to comfort,stability, more possibilities inlife, more freedom. So we ig-nore our frustrations temporarilyand return to the ever deceivingfaith we are taught to have inthe economy and in the successand ambition we are forcefullytaught to appreciate in this soci-ety. We work so hard to surviveand strive so painfully to live thatwe compromise every momentto the future satisfaction money promises us one day. Images of happiness surround us, our fami-lies and friends and destroy our capability to dream. Is oppor-tunity and ambition somethingthat can only be determined andgranted by money? Is the rotting but subtle disappointment wefeel in our hourly wage or wronglotto numbers worth the patiencewe have with the “opportunities”we are forced to accept? Some people rob banks, some peoplesell drugs, some people sell their bodies to evade a few of the hoursthey need for money. Moneysteals from our lives, but moneyis still the origin of these fore-seen opportunities. Still moneydetermines the potentiality of dreams becoming reality. What if we never get a salary? What if wenever lose a rich relative? What if we neverwin the lottery?
Will we forever accept our livesin poverty?
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You probably won’t win the lottery.
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