Mario Savio: Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964

I'm not sure if your comment was meant to be funny, or what, but it was pretty damned stupid. The spirit of American Patriotism is outrage. Outrage enough to take arms in rhetoric, and in violence; even, in treason, against ones own government. That is, to "rage against the machine," as it were. I'm not even going to validate lalelu900s rambling, incoherent, comment with a response beyond this.

I thought chanting USA USA USA was the essence of patriotism, that and not questioning things. xD

"then the faculty are a bunch of employees and we are the raw materials"
godamn, amazing.

"Savio went on to become a teacher of mathematics, physics and philosophy at Sonoma State University, to speak and organize in favor of immigrant rights and affirmative action and against U.S.intervention in Central America."

@GodotheInfantry: Mario Savio's statement has nothing, zero, to do with whatever you consider to be American patriotism. It has nothing to do with any form of patriotism. Look to democratic struggles in countries all over the world, particularly in Latin America, to see what the US-dominated machine has created, when people must fight for being able to pay a price for their water that doesn't leave them starving etc. This is the broader context of the call "to put your bodies upon the gears".

timelessness  -Fear Factory

This brings tears to my eyes...This is the spirit of American patriotism...

watch 'the obama deception' on youtube...

yes, go to the search bar on youtube, and type in 'the obama deception' , and watch it

The machine isn't inherently evil. In the speech it's the operation and specifically the operators of the machine that Savio takes issue with. Just as applicable today.

real shit