Students talk about their desire to "make a change in the world," but the most change one can make out of an institution like Biloxi High is within the ideology of "neo-liberalism," a severe threat to those great leaders who promote such ideas as that by being a human being, one not only ought to have the right to oxygen, but food, water and land. In a way, however, participation in a mass demonstration is much the same. Here is how an e-mail from a Summertime H. Mournfulness, describes it:

"It's merely an affectation, and on top of that it seems like a rather effective implement to placate the "giddy multitude of beasts in men's shapes," essentially staving off an outright revolt and thus keeping the elite men of esteem in power, like our forefathers intended. I watched Werckmeister Harmonies today; I thought it was excellent."

You know you are nearing the political epicenter of the United States when you see the highways become overwhelmingly dangerous. Tens of thousands of Americans die every year on the American highway system, and it is no wonder why. Most days in the D.C. area, around 4 p.m. or 5 p.m., all the commercial radio stations broadcast the latest traffic fatalities. The broadcasts-traffic reports-are not sensationalized as they are in small towns-with awe-but with a listener-empathetic tone of frustration and disgust that the ride to the million-dollar house in the suburbs is going to be delayed at least ten minutes: "Put a hold on that chicken, those human remains are going to take a while to clean off the expressway."

On arrival to the subway station, you know that you are in the U.S. Capitol, because all the workers are black, and the only black non-Metro-workers are trying to hustle the well-off white folks. "I'm just thirty cents short in my Metro fare, can you help me out?" Well, it would be faster to just walk the distance that the extra thirty cents will get you-D.C. subways (of which one direction was mysteriously down for one-day "emergency repairs" the day of the "Not in Our Name" protest of W's Iraq War before it started, on October 26th 2002) are exorbitantly expensive. The poverty, disparity, and socio-economic gap in the US capital would make New Orleans look like a Marxist utopia if the rich folks didn't live in the ritzy suburban areas swindled from dairy farmers fifteen years ago. While the local blacks try to push buttons to make a couple of bucks, the local whites ride and carry around their $1500 bicycles. At

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