The Wolfie Interview
Jun. 5th, 2003 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorp1. Do you think that it is more beneficial to enact laws guaranteeing equivalent rights for all, hoping that society will change as a result, or to work to change society so that such laws aren't necessary?
Either is not enough - I think we need to do both. In the short term, laws need to be passed guaranteeing equal rights and justice for all people, since social change is slow and we need something now. However, social change is often more long-lasting than legal change, so if you want your changes to stick, you have to change society. Otherwise, the laws will just keep flip-flopping like they do now.
2. What is your favourite colour of crayon?
Easy. It is and has always been Midnight Blue Crayola. As a matter of fact, one of the things that made me fall in love with my friend Luke was that I had mentioned this to him once in drunken conversation on a rooftop. And about 6 months later, he sent me an envelope with just that one brand new crayon in it, with a note that he missed me.
3. Who are the positive male rolemodels in your life?
My paternal grandfather for his hard work, his determination, and his self-sufficiency. A short-statured man with tall amounts of resilience, toughness, and Depression and immigrant values, my grandfather began his relationship to my grandmother as a bagboy at the grocery store, and now has earned enough money to enjoy a very comfortable retirement. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for his dream, and his willingness to vocalize that dream in front of people who wanted to silence him. The many spiritual leaders like Ghandi, the Buddha and the Dalai Lama who have taught me to strive for enlightenment and peace. And John F. Kennedy, because, well, I'm from Southern New England and it's like a requirement. (I was going to put my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
smurfbrother in here, but I don't know that he's been a role model more than a close compatriot.)
4. If you could be, for a day, either a child, with a child's energy, curiosity, and innocence, or an elder, with an elder's wisdom, knowledge, and experience, and you could keep the memories of that day with you, which would you choose?
An elder. I've already spent years full of days as a child with a child's energy, curiosity, and innocence - and I keep the memories of those days with me as part of my being.
5. You find the proverbial genie in a bottle, and are granted three wishes. What do you wish for (aside from more wishes)?
Social justice. The end of capitalism. A cure for childhood diseases.
Either is not enough - I think we need to do both. In the short term, laws need to be passed guaranteeing equal rights and justice for all people, since social change is slow and we need something now. However, social change is often more long-lasting than legal change, so if you want your changes to stick, you have to change society. Otherwise, the laws will just keep flip-flopping like they do now.
2. What is your favourite colour of crayon?
Easy. It is and has always been Midnight Blue Crayola. As a matter of fact, one of the things that made me fall in love with my friend Luke was that I had mentioned this to him once in drunken conversation on a rooftop. And about 6 months later, he sent me an envelope with just that one brand new crayon in it, with a note that he missed me.
3. Who are the positive male rolemodels in your life?
My paternal grandfather for his hard work, his determination, and his self-sufficiency. A short-statured man with tall amounts of resilience, toughness, and Depression and immigrant values, my grandfather began his relationship to my grandmother as a bagboy at the grocery store, and now has earned enough money to enjoy a very comfortable retirement. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for his dream, and his willingness to vocalize that dream in front of people who wanted to silence him. The many spiritual leaders like Ghandi, the Buddha and the Dalai Lama who have taught me to strive for enlightenment and peace. And John F. Kennedy, because, well, I'm from Southern New England and it's like a requirement. (I was going to put my
smurfbrother in here, but I don't know that he's been a role model more than a close compatriot.)4. If you could be, for a day, either a child, with a child's energy, curiosity, and innocence, or an elder, with an elder's wisdom, knowledge, and experience, and you could keep the memories of that day with you, which would you choose?
An elder. I've already spent years full of days as a child with a child's energy, curiosity, and innocence - and I keep the memories of those days with me as part of my being.
5. You find the proverbial genie in a bottle, and are granted three wishes. What do you wish for (aside from more wishes)?
Social justice. The end of capitalism. A cure for childhood diseases.
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Date: 2003-06-05 11:14 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-06-05 12:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-05 12:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-06 01:54 am (UTC)So THAT's what you kids are calling it these days.
(Not to be TOO Freudian, but speaking of cinnamon roles [sic], is now a bad time to mention that I REALLY love doughnut holes??)
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Date: 2003-06-06 04:16 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-06-06 05:24 pm (UTC)Actually, turning completely serious (tho you might be surprised, considering the outcome), I recently popped a doughnut hole in my mouth and it turned out to be from glazed buttermilk-bar dough.
Oh, I thought I was in heaven!
Mmmmm. :)
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Date: 2003-06-07 11:51 pm (UTC)Shocker, I know.
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Date: 2003-06-08 09:39 am (UTC)Typical male, I know.
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Date: 2003-06-08 01:24 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-06-08 04:17 pm (UTC)Somewhere here in my office I have a scrap of paper that's around 15 years old. On it, as a rather absurd teenager, I penned a list of postulates of "Holton logic."
One postulate, for example, claims that "Any two things which are opposites of the same thing are eqivalent to each other."
Take "harmony." Harmony can be seen as the opposite of melody. Harmony is also the opposite of hostility.
Therefore, hostility and melody are the same thing.
Song sung blue...every garden grows one...
Another postulate of Holton logic suggests that a circle is a rhombus.
I'll have to find the rest of the list sometime.
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Date: 2003-06-09 06:13 am (UTC)p.s. I like that picture of you and Dina.
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Date: 2003-06-09 07:09 am (UTC)Course, she's pretty...in general!
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Date: 2003-06-09 07:15 am (UTC)(Ha! That makes me think of a tshirt that reads, "Hello, boys. We've come for your wives.")
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Date: 2003-06-09 07:39 am (UTC)