Poll: Why does nobody write manifestos anymore?

[NewGeekPhilosopher]

I am severely disappointed in my brother's generation of University ( or Uni for short) students of late. When I visited the "Make a Manifesto" stand at the Art Gallery of Queensland, my brother had nowhere near as much enthusiasm for writing a manifesto as I did. He resisted participating in the manifesto making activity at all, and I pointed out that as a University student he should have written five manifestos by the time he had reached his stage of his University course.

Why is the modern young man (and sometimes women are equally guilty of this) so detached from Manifesto Making these days? Just because one of the main famous Manifestos, the Communist one, turned out to be abused as an ideology, doesn't mean all of them will turn out bad. Artistic/Art related manifestos were written all the time in the 20th Century and nobody got hurt (aside from those damnable Futurists, how dare they try and tear down the museums! The NERVE!). Manifestos don't have to be about massive world changing ideologies 100% of the time, they can also be about changing smaller things.

When was the last time you wrote a manifesto? I'm writing one right now.

 

[Dragon_of_red]

Whats a Manifesto?

 

[rainman2203]

Yeah, no one knows what a manifesto is anymore, nor would anyone listen if they did. The Communist Manifesto is the glaring example that comes to mind, and we all know the world's view on communists. I wouldn't mind writing one myself, if it wasn't an exercise in futility.

 

[sheic99]

Of course people aren't writing manifestos, we're to busy "blogging," "Tweeting" and checking our facebook to care about that.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

Yes, how dare they have different tastes and abilities than you! How dare they dislike one of your favorite tasks! They should all immediately start a hobby in doing what is so obviously what most university students do in their free time nowadays- writing manifestos! If they don't, then they are intellectually inferior. Any good college student, nay, any good person, should have written over a hundred manifestos before dying! This is an outrage, and I will join you, OP, in persecuting those who fail to understand the value of making tiny little books that nobody will ever read!

 

[Pumpkin_Eater]

There are plenty of manifestos floating around but none of the recent ones have proved influential yet. Most of them also avoid using the term manifesto because they don't want to be seen as nut jobs.

 

[jasoncyrus]

Honestly...who gives a monkies about a manifesto...?

Honestly, you should be focusing on your rudding STUDIES than writing out a pointless piece of garbage that will only lead to people coming out of the wood work to publicly mock you and other to show their unrivalled stupidity.

Know what students are doing these days instead of writing such things? WORKING so we don't end up in DEBT thanks to older people like YOU screwing up the freaking economy!

Manifestos are for people who CANT and WONT do anything.

The people who CAN and ARE doing something about it dont need to tell people that they are doing it.

 

[TheTygerfire]

The Unabomber wrote one. He pretty much cornered the modern market on the term "manifesto"

This. Manifestos are now associated with psychopaths and all around weirdos. Not insulting NGP by saying that but it's the truth.

 

[SharPhoe]

The Unabomber wrote one. He pretty much cornered the modern market on the term "manifesto"

This. Manifestos are now associated with psychopaths and all around weirdos. Not insulting NGP by saying that but it's the truth.

Isn't it basically a long book or something that says "down with this government, up with mine"?

 

[Abedeus]

Get a job, hippie.

And a haircut.

And a nosejob.

And a... what I was going on about? Oh, and a free rattlesnake for everyone.


who took my pills...

 

[vede]

... You guys disgust me.

A manifesto is a list of conditions that must be achieved in order to satisfy the person or organization who wrote the manifesto.

For example:

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Dearest mummy, I demand the following from you, if you expect further assistance on my part in household chores:

+ At least a 25% increase in allowance.
+ A decrease in working time required by at least 25%.
+ A brand new GameBox 1000.
+ The ability to stay out past 9pm.
+ A pushing back of my bedtime by at least one hour.
+ Socialization of all medical insurance companies. An increase of at least two hours of the time I am allowed to watch TV.

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How can you sufficiently overthrow a government without a manifesto so people can choose whether or not they agree with you?

How will the communist revolution ever be successful with a generation that doesn't even know what a manifesto is? Agh!

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

Why should we write a manifesto anyway?

 

[Lord George]

I wrote a long winded manifesto concerning how great I am concerned to everyone else and how the world should kneel to me. My friends found it quite narcissistic.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Ever stopped a ship from sinking with your manifesto? No, I have!

You stopped a ship from sinking with your manifesto?
I gotta get me one of these things.
How much are they?

 

[vede]

Why should we write a manifesto anyway?

How can you sufficiently overthrow a government without a manifesto so people can choose whether or not they agree with you?

How will the communist revolution ever be successful with a generation that doesn't even know what a manifesto is? Agh!

Duh!

Read!

 

[twistedshadows]

The general populace don't know what a manifesto is, so why would they write one?

And no, I don't feel the need to write one. Everything that would go into my manifesto (if I were to write one) is in my head, and that's quite good enough for me.

How can you sufficiently overthrow a government without a manifesto so people can choose whether or not they agree with you?

By having an overnight overthrowing of said government so that the people never even know. >_>