Older monks and abbots urged the monks to protest in the monasteries, but the younger monks thought protesting in their cloistered world would do no good, he said.
But several years ago I responded to a reader who, I thought, protested far too much in proclaiming that "ghetto" as an adjective ("that's so ghetto") had no racial overtones.
I think many of them think protest in itself is their objective".
But he added, "I think protest and speaking your mind is what democracy is all about".
He said something I thought was amazing: "I don't think protest music even has to have lyrics".
Wilson thinks protest movements can help, too, though just now they may risk being branded as terrorists.
"I think protest, any protest, any riot, it starts from your heart.
Why or why not? –Do you think protests are an effective means to change policy?
Why or why not? –How do you think protests outside of the U.S. against the U.S. affect conditions for Americans living abroad?
But lately, I think, protests against the deep-dish and the highbrow — to use old-fashioned populist epithets of a kind you used to hear a lot in movies themselves — mask another agenda, which is a defense of the corporate status quo.
